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Re:Aquafaba by ggm on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:35PM (#25783794)
Interesting, scary. My partner has peanut anaphylaxis, epipen, never once reacted to aquafaba which I used in hummous to loosen the mixture if there is enough lemon-juice sourness and it's too thick. We eat a LOT of chickpea. She's never had anything approaching throat constriction or mouth swelling.

Are you sure there wasn't a contamination issue?

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Re:Aquafaba by mikeg8 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:23PM (#25784507)
From the little bit of reading I just did, it sounds like only some people with peanut allergies will also experience reactions to other legumes - my brother being one of the unlucky few. I do not believe it was contamination as it was behind a bar vs a kitchen, but no one knows for sure.
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