Has there been that many historical accounts/cases of food allergies

>>1853124
As a whole asians have a higher likelihood of lactose intolerance, so that may be referenced.

But odds are if you had a food allergy back then you just died of a mysterious illness, and nothing further was said.

>>1853124
Made me look...

I stepped on a tinfoil vaccination landmine:
http://www.foodsmatter.com/allergy_intolerance/peanut_treenut/articles/history_peanut_allergy_epidemic.html

>>1853124
probably idk tho

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>>1853124
Lactose tolerance has been around forever, and still is. Generally only those descended from starving herders have good lactose tolerance (eg. most Europeans). In a lot of cultures, drinking milk was associated with certain ethnic groups, and adults simply didn't do it as it'd make them sick.

The results of gluten allergies are so subtle there's still some debate as to whether they are a thing. So I doubt they would have been picked up on historically, especially given how widespread gluten stuffed staple foods are.

Knowledge of the potentially fatal allergic reaction to bee stings dates back to the ancient Egyptians. Allergies to pollen, similarly, written of since ancient times.

But...

Peanut allergies, which are often fatal, however, are almost entirely new, and an epidemic to boot:
https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S37/46/79G28/index.xml?section=topstories

If peanuts were offing the same percentage of the population that they potentially can now, they never would have become a staple food. We were well aware of peanut allergies from the beginning of the 20th century onward, but the were so rare that they were neglected (sometimes their existence even debated), until the 90's, when a significant segment of the US and some of Europe's population suddenly started having them for as of yet unknown reasons. (No doubt something environmental though.)

>>1853134
Meh, I dunno about that, but two of my friend's three kids are both autistic and allergic to peanuts, so who knows...

>>1853248
Meant to link >>1853199