Food Allergy Quick Guide

Tree Nut

If your child or a child in the classroom has a life threatening allergy to tree nuts, you should avoid these ingredients in the classroom:

• Almonds (oil, nut, paste and alcoholic extract)
• Artificial nuts
• Beechnut
• Brazil nuts
• Butternut
• Cashews
• Chestnuts/Chinquapin
• Filberts
• Hazelnuts
• Gianduja (a creamy mixture of chocolate chopped toasted nuts found in premium or imported chocolate)
• Ginkgo nuts
• Ground nuts
• Hickory nuts
• Hydrolyzed plant protein
• Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
• Litchi/lichee/lychee nut
• Macadamia nuts
• Mandelonas
• Marzipan/almond paste
• Mixed nuts
• Nangai nuts
• Natural nut extract (e.g., almond, walnut)
• Nougat
• Nu-Nuts (artificial nuts)
• Nut butters (e.g., cashew butter, almond butter)
• Nut oils
• Nut paste (i.e. almond paste)
• Pecans
• Pesto
• Pili nut
• Pine nuts (pignolia, pinian)
• Pistachios
• Praline
• Shea nut
• Walnuts

Some Unexpected Sources of Tree Nuts

• Barbecue sauce
• Beer nuts
• Breading for chicken
• Pancakes
• Meat-free burgers
• Pasta
• Honey
• Fish dishes
• Pie crust
• Mandelonas (peanuts soaked in almond flavoring)
• Mortadella (may contain pistachios)
• Salads and salad dressing

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