How do you eat healthy with a nut allergy?

Nut-Free Snacks

1. Fresh fruit cut up for on-the-go or frozen for a cool treat.
2. Dried fruit or fruit leathers.
3. Vegetable strips with hummus or light salad dressing.
4. Whole-grain crackers with low-fat cheese or sunflower seed butter.
5. Trail mix with dried fruit, puffed rice and seeds.
6. Smoothies.

What should you avoid if you have a nut allergy?

Foods to Avoid When You Have Nut Allergies

• Nut butters: Almond, cashew, peanut, and others.
• Nut pastes. These include products like marzipan, almond paste, and nougat.
• Nut oils.
• Hydrolyzed plant or vegetable protein.
• Peanut flour.
• Nut extracts, like almond extract.

Can I have Chick Fil A if I’m allergic to peanuts?

Here is additional information on the two types of peanut oil and why there is no such thing as peanut oil allergies. Anyone with a food allergy should always notify Chick-fil-A or any other restaurant of their allergy when dining out.

Can people with nut allergies use nut oils?

Studies show that most people with peanut allergy can safely eat this kind of peanut oil. If you are allergic to peanuts, ask your doctor whether you should avoid highly refined peanut oil. Everyone with peanut allergy should avoid cold-pressed, expelled or extruded peanut oils—sometimes called gourmet peanut oils.

Can you eat avocado with nut allergy?

Since avocado is classified as a fruit and not a tree nut, you should be able to eat avocados even if you have a nut allergy. However, some studies have shown that avocados have similar proteins as chestnuts. So if you’re allergic to chestnuts, you may have to avoid avocados.

What can I eat instead of nuts?

Replace nuts with:

• Seeds – a nut-free source of roasted pumpkin seeds (pepitas) or sunflower seeds makes a great replacement for nuts in granola bars, breads, and “butters”.
• Beans – specifically roasted soy beans, peas or chickpeas (garbanzo beans).
• Pretzels – Yes, pretzels.

Why is peanut not a nut?

Peanuts aren’t actually a true nut; they’re a legume (in the same family as peas and lentils). For this reason, people who are allergic to peanuts can also be allergic to tree nuts, such as almonds, Brazil nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pistachios, pecans, and cashews.

Does Canes use peanut oil?

Raising Cane’s cooks all of our fried foods in an all-vegetable, trans fat free blend of soybean and canola oil. According to the FDA, highly refined soybean oil is not considered allergenic, and therefore is not labeled as such.

Can you eat 5 guys with a nut allergy?

First things first: If you have a peanut allergy, Five Guys is not the place for you. The only nut allergen at our stores would be due to the presence of peanuts. There are no products containing tree nuts in our restaurants, nor are they used in our cooking process in any way.