[luvbach1]

George Washington Carver, invented scores of uses for the peanut, from synthetics to peanut butter. Does exposure to peanuts in all their multitudinous forms also risk allegic reaction?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Mostly it's the oil. Peanut oil is getting much more use (because it's good for cooking in) lately. Peanut oils are volitile and a real problem. It's more like a poison gas release that affects only a few people.

Fortunately, not many people have this allergy (else there wouldn't be any people.) Most food allergies are avoided by just not eating the foods. It's harder if everything may be cooked in peanut oil or not depending on the spot price of vegetable oils.

Hey, it's natural. PETA will be happy. (Belladonna is natural too.)