Title: Can You Have a Hemp Seed Allergy? Watch For These Symptoms – Superfoodly
Headings: Can You Have a Hemp Seed Allergy? Watch For These Symptoms
Can You Have a Hemp Seed Allergy? Watch For These Symptoms
Yes, it’s possible
What prompted this topic?
What the research says
Which parts are most allergic?
Side effects of a hemp allergy
How common is it?
Should you be worried?
“A positive test result for food allergy is not, in and of itself, diagnostic for food allergy.”
Alternatives if you have symptoms

Content: A specific area in his throat under his Adam’s apple would become itchy and also trigger asthmatic symptoms. He does have asthma regardless, but only cashews would cause that specific area in his throat to react. Not his asthma or any other foods could cause that type of reaction… until hemp came along. He says the adverse reaction from hemp is a far cry from the magnitude experienced with cashews. Those are a definite allergen for him; medically diagnosed with testing and obviously apparent. With hemp, the itchy and asthmatic side effects are not enough for him to forego it completely. However he does minimize consumption and stays away from concentrated sources, like hemp protein and heaping raw hulled hearts on oatmeal or salads. For most processed products – like the Kind protein bar pictured above – they love to hype up the hemp it contains, but in reality it’s very little. Those balls which many people assume are seeds actually are “pea crisp” (pea protein isolate, rice flour, rice starch).