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I am lucky enough to have kids that can graze a wide range of foods, without any allergies that we are aware of. When we can’t bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school or camp it can seem like a minor annoyance, but for some moms, it’s a matter of life or death.
The good news is there may be hope in staving off a peanut allergy. If peanut products are introduced early in a child’s life.
Bamba, a crunchy melt in your mouth peanut snack is- available at Trader Joe’s. A snack popular in Israel, has made its way to the U.S.
It has 4 simple ingredients. Made with corn grits popped under high pressure, they are air-baked and coated with hot liquid peanut butter mixed with oil and salt. The cheese-puff like snack melts into a soft crumble of peanut butter goodness. My 4-year-old can easily finish a full 8 oz bag, which sells for about $.99. A bargain, compared to the same product sold in the specialty section of top grocery chains.
An addendum added last year to the “guidelines for the Prevention of Peanut Allergy in The United States” states, research indicates children in Israel have a lower chance of developing peanut allergies due to early exposure from one of their favorite national snacks, Bamba.
Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, adds “parents should introduce most babies to peanut-containing foods around the time they begin eating other solid foods, typically 4 to 6 months of age.”
In a 2015 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, said hundreds of infants between four and 11 months old who had severe eczema and other allergies were exposed to peanut products. The study suggests early sustained consumption of peanut products was associated with a “significant decrease” in the development of peanut allergy in high-risk infants, and exposure to peanut products was more effective than avoidance of them.
I would not advocate exposing children with severe peanut allergies to peanut products without consulting a doctor. But introducing Bamba to babies and toddlers may be the key to beating the development of this deadly allergy.
We just bought a bag of these yesterday for the kids! So far they absolutely love them! 🙂
So, is this an advertisement for the product? I have to admit, as the mother of a child with a severe peanut allergy this information rubs me the wrong way.
Rachel – Thank you for your feedback and we appreciate your opinion. This post is the opinion of our writer and her perspective, but is not a sponsored post nor advertisement. We’ve added note to call this out at the top of the post.