if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!
My nibling appears to have developed an allergy to plums. Still testing to see if it is all plums or just fresh plums. (My parents have several trees and plums are a large part of the family diet in the summer. My mother is planning to make her grandchild a plum pie to see if cooked plums are okay (and if they’re not, I’m sure my sister and brother-in-law will be happy to eat the rest of the pie.)
And yes, this is the mouth-tingly kind of allergy.
