Peanuts are the most common food allergy among children

peanuts can cause the most life threatening allergic reactions in children, milk is actually the most common food allergen.Studies have shown that the diets of Western children have pre disposed them to have more allergic reactions to certain foods. A study done by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences compared the stomach bacteria from 15 children in Italy with the bacteria in 14 children in Burkina Faso. They found a decrease in richness of the bacteria of Western children that may, in fact, have something to do with the rise in food allergies in Western cultures.