Is peanut oil dangerous?
Amazingly, people who are allergic to peanuts only rarely have reactions to peanut oil which has been refined. It seems you don’t need to go around in constant fear that, unbeknown to you, some food may have been prepared with refined peanut oil. Whether it is a good idea to consume foods made with it is another matter. One reservation is that much peanut oil is produced in countries which do not have the same strict regulations and working conditions as those in Western Europe or North America. It is thus impossible to be perfectly sure, for example, that unrefined peanut has not been added with the idea of improving the flavour. With increasing awareness of peanut allergy, this problem, which seems to have been small at worst, will surely decrease. Unrefined or ‘cold pressed’ peanut oil, or ‘gourmet oil’ with peanut material added for flavour are dangerous. ‘Vegetable oil’, according to our information, will not intentionally contain peanut oil because peanut oil is considerably more
