Oleosins

Proteins responsible for a minority of allergic reactions to peanut, hazelnut, sesame among others – hydrophobic, so tend not to be well represented in skin prick and IgE test solutions. May explain false negatives.

Specific IgE tests have been developed, but otherwise you just have to challenge.

Dutch study however didn’t find that specific testing for oleosins helped much.

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