Disclaimer: I'm thrilled that other people with nut allergies are finding this list useful. But please, PLEASE re-confirm all information for yourself!! We're doing the best we can, but especially for companies we called early on, I'm worried we might have blurred "nut-free equipment" with "nut-free facility."
In any case, it's a good general rule: production can change at any time.
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Okay, I think my baking powder freakout - and (more or less) resolution - calls for a more general update. Though typing this took me most of the day, and I really, really wanted to put my head down and give up about 3 times along the way. Apologies for the random order of categories. I just ran out of steam. Also, I seriously could
not figure out where to put waffles. Or pizza.
Gd bless my in-laws, who took on a good deal of research themselves, so they could host us in style for a week. I hope we leave them as non-crazy as we found them.
I'm not listing things we
can't eat in this update, only things we can. Things which are questionably safe are in brackets; use your judgment (yay! my least favorite phrase in the entire world right now!) (closely followed by "but that's my JOB!", as employed by children in response to "stop grabbing/hitting/pushing/breaking!")
fruitCascadian Farms frozen fruit - a General Mills brand**
Gefen applesauce - nut free facility
Ocean Spray - craisins (all products?) made in nut free facility
Sunmaid raisins - Kingsburg plant is nut free
vegetables[Birdseye - tree nuts in the facility, but vegetable-only products are made on dedicated lines. Some kind of divider between the nut and nut-free equipment. No peanuts, even in the break room.
Verdict: eating, for now.]
Dr. Praeger's vegetable pancakes, burgers - nut free facility
Golden - at least some vegetable pancakes are made in nut free facility (not sure if we asked about their blintzes)
Green Giant canned vegetables - a General Mills brand**
oilsBertolli olive oil - listed last time as nut free facility, but
not kosher!! Whoops.
Bonelli olive oil - nut free facility
[Eden Foods - sesame oil is produced in a nut-free facility, but stored in (and probably transferred into) drums in the same warehouse as peanut oil.
Verdict: NOT eating, for now.]
Giant - light & regular olive oils (?) made in nut free facility
Land o Lakes canola oil - nut free facility
Pam - all products made in nut free facility
Smart Balance Omega - nut free facility; nut butters are made in a separate facility
vinegarsHeinz - nut free facility
mayonnaise[Hellmann's - produced on shared equipment; they clean between runs, but make no guarantees.
Verdict: NOT eating, for now.]
Trader Joe's real mayonnaise*
tomato productsDell'amore pasta sauce - nut free facility
Gefen pasta sauce - nut free facility
Heinz ketchup - nut free facility
Trader Joe's - one line of pasta sauces are made in a nut free facility*
other saucesGold's - all made in nut free facility
Iron Chef - General Tso, Orange w/Ginger, Sesame Garlic, Mu-Shu are produced in peanut-free facilities. One of these facilities does process tree nuts. If the label is what is called a "pressure-sensitive" label and does NOT wrap fully around the bottle, then the product is from a tree-nut free facility. If the label is a paper label and wraps fully around, then it is made in the plant that processes tree nuts as well.
Kikkoman - Wisconsin plant is nut free
Soy Vay - all made in nut free facility [although some contain sesame oil; and
I have not, so far, come across a safe sesame oil, so... uh???]
salad dressingBravo Italian salad dressing (La Jolla Farms) - nut free facility
Vita condiments - all made in nut free facility [BUT sadly, Oak Hill Farms Vidalia Onion Vinaigrette has mustard]
[Wishbone - produced on shared equipment; they clean between runs, but make no guarantees.
Verdict: NOT eating, for now.]
sweetenersBillyBee honey - nut free facility (made by a different company than BillyBee nuts)
Camp maple syrup - nut free facility?
Maple Grove pure maple syrup - nut free facility
Smuckers jam - have to check each jar. In the long number on the side of the jar, somewhere in the middle (5th digit or so?) will be a sequence beginning 00_. 001 and 006 are plants which process fruit only. [Do NOT use 004 and 007: those plants process peanuts!]
Trader Joe's - one line of jam is made in a nut free facility*
peanut butter substitutesI.M. Healthy soynut butter - nut free facility (also comes in chocolate.) (AHEM.)
NoNuts golden peabutter - nut free facility
Trader Joe's sunflower seed butter - nut free facility*
hummusCedar's Mediterranean - nut free facility
Trader Joe's traditional hummus with sesame tahini - nut free facility*
fishBumble Bee tuna - nut free facility (also salmon?)
Dr. Praeger's fish sticks, salmon burgers - nut free facility
Ungar's gefilte fish - nut free facility
riceRice Select - nut free facility (except for the one with a packet of almonds, which comes from another facility)
Uncle Ben's - nut free facility
pastaBarilla - nut-free LINES [not sure about facility?]
Mueller / Pennsylvania Dutch - nut free facility? [secondhand info]
Ronzoni pasta - nut free facility?
breadBagel City challah - nut free facility
Berlin Natural Bakery bread- nut free facility
Lender's frozen and refrigerated bagels - nut free facility? [secondhand info]
Nature's Own bread - nut free facility, but not kosher
Trader Joe's bread, bagels - one line is made in a nut free facility*
Vermont Bread Company - nut free facility? [secondhand info]
Dr. Praeger's pizza bagels - nut free facility
cookiesBloom's - at least some cookies made in nut free facility
HomeFree - all made in nut free facility (and pretty darn good)
Katz Gluten Free - at least some cookies made in nut free facility
Kemach - at least some cookies made in nut free facility
Lieber's - at least some cookies made in nut free facility (they sent us a pdf)
Van's waffles - nut free facility
pretzels / chips / puffsBachman pretzels - nut free facility
Kettle - potato chips, tortilla chips and baked potato chips are made in nut free facility
Robert's American Gourmet - long list of snacks made in nut free facility, including Pirate’s Booty, Veggie Booty. [NOT safe: Pirate’s Swag Peak Trail Mix, Pirate’s Swag Groovy Granola Almond Cranberry or Pirate’s Swag Cashew Cranberry.]
Trader Joe's - some chips made in nut free facility*
pudding / jelloKozy Shack puddings, gel treats - nut-free facility
ice cream / popsicles[Ben & Jerry's - shared equipment, but good reputation for cleaning; BUT they do not consider peanut oil an allergen!
Verdict: too chicken to try yet.]
[Breyer's - shared equipment, but good reputation for cleaning; some people only eat vanilla.
Verdict: too chicken to try yet.]
Philly Swirl - most made in nut free facility [but NOT Ice Cream Cupcakes!]
Temptation - nut free facility
baking ingredients[Davis / Rumfeld baking powder - peanut free facility. They manufacture products with almonds in another building, but keep the ingredients separated.
Verdict: eating, for now.]
Domino sugar - can't find my source for this??
Gold Medal flour - owned by General Mills**
Hodgson Mills - all made in nut free facility
McCormick - all made in nut free facility? ('pure almond extract' is made from apricot/peach pits, not almonds)
Pillsbury flour - a General Mills brand**
dairyBreakstone's butter - nut free facility? (not the same company as other Breakstone's products)
Hershey's chocolate milk (juice-box size) - Logan, Utah plant #4962 is nut free (note: chocolate milk is NOT made by same company as rest of Hershey products!)
Land o Lakes - Land o Lakes butter, Land o Lakes margarine, Country Morning blend are made in nut free facility
Stonyfield - yogurt & squeezers are made in nut free facility (NOT ice cream & frozen yogurt!)
toiletriesCalifornia Baby - no nut oils
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NOTE: I have NOT checked that the following are all kosher!
actually, I might have missed a few in the list above as well!
parent company has good reputation for labeling shared equipment/facility - rely on labels***:**General Mills brands: Betty Crocker, Gold Medal, Bisquick, Pillsbury, Big G cereals, Cascadian Farms, Muir Glen, Small Planet Foods, Nature Valley, Green Giant, Yoplait et al.
Heinz brands: Wyler's (bouillion), OreIda, T.G.I.Fridays, Bagel Bites, Weight Watchers, Smart Ones, Classico et al.
Hershey's
Kelloggs brands: Kashi, Morningstar Farms, Nutri-Grain, Keebler, Carr's, Eggo et al.
Pepperidge Farm
*Trader Joe's in-house labels - they won't explicitly say "nut free facility", but they
always disclose shared equipment/facility. If there's no nut warning, then the facility is nut free.
parent company has poor reputation for labeling shared equipment/facility - don't rely on labels:ConAgra brands: Alexia, Egg Beaters, Fleischmann's, Healthy Choice, Hunt's, La Choy, Orville Redenbacher's, Pam, Swiss Miss, Wesson
Hain Celestial brands: Earth's Best, Spectrum Organics, Garden of Eatin', Arrowhead Mills, Health valley, Imagine/Rice Dream/Soy Dream, Celestial Seasonings, Westsoy, Terra
Kraft brands: Breakstone's/Knudsen, Chips Ahoy!, Cool Whip, Cracker Barrel, Crystal Light/Clight, Honey Maid, Kool-Aid, LU, Maxwell House, Miracle Whip, Nabisco, Newtons, Nilla, Oreo, Philadelphia, Ritz, South Beach Living, Tang, Toblerone, Triscuit, Wheat Thins
Unilever brands: Breyer's, Flora, Bertolli, Hellman's, WishBone, Knorr, Lipton, Slim Fast
***NOTE: When I say rely on labels, I mean read the whole ingredient list, don't just look for allergen warnings at the end!
(1) Allergens can legally be disclosed in the ingredients or in the warning at the end; they don't have to do both.
(2) Peanut oil will almost certainly not be called out in the warning, because the FDA doesn't consider it an allergen. Same goes for pine nuts.