Tree Nuts: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food

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Episode Description

Can you safely offer tree nuts to your baby if whole nuts and thick nut butter are choking hazards? Yes…and it’s a good idea to do tree nuts early and often! Tree nuts are one of the Top 9 allergenic foods, and early introduction may help reduce the risk of developing a tree nut allergy. In this episode, you’ll learn how to safely serve tree nuts to your baby using almond flour and thinned out nut butter. We’ll also cover why almond milk doesn’t count and how to watch for signs of an allergic reaction.

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Other Episodes Related to this Topic

• Episode 14 - Peanut: How to Introduce Your Baby to This Potentially Allergenic Food
• Episode 58 - What do I do if My Baby Has an Allergic Reaction? with Ron Sunog, MD
• Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH

Resources and Research

• American Academy of Pediatrics. “Addendum Guidelines for the Prevention of Peanut Allergy in the United States.” Pediatrics, vol. 139, no. 1, 2017, doi:10.1542/peds.2016-4005.
• Gupta, Ruchi S., et al. “Prevalence and Severity of Food Allergies among US Adults.” JAMA Network Open, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, e185630, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.5630.
• Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE). “Tree Nut Allergy.” FARE, www.foodallergy.org/living-food-allergies/food-allergy-essentials/common-allergens/tree-nut. Accessed April 2025.
• Sicherer, Scott H., and Hugh A. Sampson. “Food Allergy: A Review and Update on Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management.” Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, vol. 141, no. 1, 2018, pp. 41–58.e5, doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2017.11.003.
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States.” NIH Publication, 2010, www.niaid.nih.gov/sites/default/files/faguidelinespatient.pdf.