Would you eat a packet of nuts on a plane?

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I thought it was widely understood that you don't eat nuts on a plane. The woman next to me just cracked a packet open!

Id agree with this, I boarded, unknowingly, a nut free flight and had to ditch various bits in the bin on the way to Australia.

The risk is small if you’re careful, though not zero. It’s easy to say that, if your child were allergic, you’d never fly or never eat out again. People often say that sort of thing on here.

In reality, the parents of allergic children mostly choose not to limit their lives in this way. They teach their children to be careful, but they don’t lock them up. It is very stressful though.

So the risk is small, but people are definitely bothered.

I mean this with the utmost respect, but it is so draining when people don’t read your posts & then hop on their own conclusions.

You said: Are you seriously going to double down on your argument that people shouldn't eat nuts on the plane even when the airline gives them out?

The post title is: Would you eat a packet of nuts on a plane?

I replied very clearly in my initial post saying No. No, I would not eat a packet of nuts on a plane. Never have, never will. My choice.

If (big if) the airline says - no nuts on this flight (which I mentioned has happened SO many times on flights I’ve been on), then yes, everybody on board should adhere to that. In that scenario, the airline tends to withhold the nut snacks. BA have actually switched to mini pretzels for this reason. (However there was a very tragic & high profile death on their flight when Pret mislabelled a snack & the passenger had an allergy to one of the ingredients). There’s literally no help up there if someone has an anaphylactic reaction, I don’t know why anyone would go against the cabin crews request.

I would NEVER eat nuts on a flight! Not worth the risk !

What if the airline themselves were handing them out?

It's not just the airborne aspect that worries me, it's that you are eating them with your fingers then touching things around about you on the plane. There might not be someone with an allergy on your flight but what about the next one. Let's face it, planes aren't cleaned very well in-between trips any more.

General consensus seems to be that it's fine unless asked not to. I was obviously wrong thinking it's as an unwritten rule as such.

Yes. I don't think I ever have but it wouldn't occur to me not to.

If you're only discussing the question of whether YOU would eat nuts why did point out to me (incorrectly) that I 'managed to survive' a flight without them? And the OP was never about flights where passengers were specifically requested not to eat nuts. I'm not going to derail further but bloody hell your arguments are all over the place.

@Gingercar

"people were fine to eat their own nuts."

I tried this once and cricked my back. 😳

People with severe nut allergies would be wiping down etc themselves.

There has only been 1 documented case of a fatality due to a nut allergy on a plane in history.

I wonder how many QALYs (quality adjusted life years) would be lost globally if everyone was forced to swap from healthy snacks such as nuts to say crisps.

BS. You obviously know nothing about allergies and aren’t very well travelled. Please don’t spread misinformation that could be potentially dangerous to someone else.

No I don’t ever eat nuts in a plane….

I don’t like them so makes it quite easy not to 🤣

Nuts aren't banned, it's just that sometimes people are asked to refrain due to another passenger's allergy.

Why?
If he'd had an allergy you would have told the crew and an announcement would have been made.

I was thinking this - I visit India regularly and nuts are literally everywhere. I don’t think someone with a nut allergy could leave their home…..

Was last on a flight over the summer. There was a specific announcement at the start telling flyers to NOT eat nuts. If there was no announcement, I'd have been eating my "kind" nut bars that we'd bought in boots. I always check in my way onto the aircraft because one of the DCs friends has a nut allergy so I'm tuned into the issue.

There is no evidence that nut allergens can be airborne. The concern should mainly be from residue left on the seat and table, not the air ventilation system.

Does your son have a nut allergy? If so you should have said, if not…then you are being very precious! We can’t live our lives this way…as an allergy sufferer myself (milk) I don’t police others, I simply look out for my own wellbeing.

I really think the onus is on the allergy sufferer (or their parent) NOT the general public, to keep themselves safe.

If you say so. Have a good day.

Can you show me sone examples where people have actually died on a flight due to reaction to nuts others are?! Hear the kind of thing you are spouting every now and again but never heard of any actual proof

No it isn't you're right, but it's polite empathetic and sensible.

'Almost guaranteed to be allergic to any food on a plane'? I really cannot believe that that is true. How on earth do you live?

In that case you ( or anyone) could've eaten something containing nuts in airport or before leaving home then got on plane Where does it stop?

'Almost guaranteed to be allergic to any food on a plane'? I really cannot believe that that is true. How on earth do you live?