Someone PLEASE tell me that nutmeg is not a nut!

[TrillianAstra]

I know I'm probably being silly, but someone just tell me okay?

I have some friends coming over for dinner. One is very very very allergic to nuts. The posh 95% meat happy pig sausages I bought say they're seasoned with sage and nutmeg. The allergy advice only mentions gluten. So it's fine for a nut allergy sufferer - right?

I don't think it's a nut, because it's a spice - but I don't really know. If they are severely allergic then your friend will know, surely? Do you have back up non-nutmeg sausages?!

this would suggest it's safe

Apparently it's not a nut and it's not a particular risk to those with nut allergy.

Google search for nutmeg and allergy should turn up something relevant.

as does this

apparently shoudl be ok

http://www.anaphylaxis.org.uk/information/faq.aspx link 1

better link to medical site

but i'd tell your friend and let her decide as she is probably well up on what is ok and not.

read down a bit for a fuller explanation

Thanks!

She will know, and I will still check with her, but I would have been a bit if I'd been so careful asking what she couldn't have (allergic to seafoood too) and then got sausages with nuts in!