HEALTHY SAFE SNACK LIST FOR PEANUT & TREE NUT ALLERGIES
Updated: 8/28/2006
The following snacks are considered “safe” for the classroom on the date of this update. However, ingredients often do change, therefore you must READ THE LABEL AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE and do not bring a snack to class if the ingredients list:
Peanuts and peanut oil
Nuts and nut oil
Snacks with such statements as “May contain traces of….”, or “Made on Equipment that manufactures or processes….”, or “Made in a facility that manufactures….” are not considered safe.
To prevent cross contamination make sure that these items are not cut on the same cutting board or with a knife that has been used in prior food preparation. Washing with soap and water is the best way to remove the residue; wiping or rinsing is not enough to remove the residue and could leave enough allergen to cause a reaction.
Note: only prepackaged foods are considered safe, foods from bins may be contaminated by residue from what food was in the bin prior to the current food
Fruits and Vegetables:
- All fresh vegetables
- Ranch dressing
- All fresh fruits
- Fruit cups
- Craisins
- Raisins
- Fruit Raisins
- Sunmaid Yogurt Raisins
- Fruit Leather
- Applesauce
Dairy/Cheese
- String Cheese
- Cottage Cheese cups
- Hunt’s Fat Free Snack Pack Pudding
Chips, Crackers, Popcorn, and Pretzel Products
- Rold Gold Pretzels (Plain)
- Wheat Thins Crackers
- Saltine Crackers
- Nabisco Graham Crackers (Original, Cinnamon, Chocolate)
- Nabisco Teddy Grahams (Honey, Cinnamon, Chocolate Chip)
- Nabisco Barnum’s Animal Crackers
- Keebler Scooby Doo Graham Cracker sticks, cinnamon
- Quaker Rice cakes (Multigrain, caramel, cinnamon sugar)
- Sun Chips (Original, Harvest Cheddar, French Onion)
- Calbee Snack Salad Snappea Crisps (Original)- Trader Joes/Jewel Produce section
- Ritz crackers (Original and Ritz Sticks- OK; Ritz Bits are not safe)
- Combos Cheddar Cheese Pretzels, Cheddar Cheese Crackers, and Pizzeria Pretzels
- Kraft Cheese Nips Cheddar
- Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Graham Snacks
- Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers and Pretzels (not all varieties are safe, check the labels)
- Keebler Wheatables
- Nabisco Fig Newtons
- Kellogg’s Nutrigrain Cereal Bars (apple cinnamon, strawberry, vanilla, apple cobbler twist, raspberry, blueberry, mixedberry, strawberry)
- Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Yogurt Bars (Peaches & Crème, Strawberry)
- Kellogg’s Fruit Loops Cereal and Milk Bars
Cereals
- Fruit Loops
- Apple Jacks
- Cherrios (Original only)
- Chex Cereals (corn, wheat, rice only)
- Cinnamon Life
- Regular Life
- Regular and Cocoa Rice Krispies
- Lucky Charms
- Trix
BIRTHDAY TREAT SAFE SNACK LIST FOR PEANUT & TREE NUT ALLERGIES
- Any of the snacks from the Healthy Snack list
- Nabisco Oreo Cookies (Regular, Double Stuff, minis are OK)
- Nabisco Fruit Snacks (Brach’s snacks are not considered safe)
- Skittles
- General Mills Bugels
- Nabisco Brand Chips Ahoy Cookies (the mini chips are not safe)
- Jello Cups
- Junior Mints
- Life Savers (Regular types- not swirled or with cream)
- Jolly Rancher Candies
- Starburst (Regular, not cream variety)
- Sweet Tarts (not Chewy variety)
- DumDum Lollipops
- Smarties
- Runts
- Swedish Fish
- Gummy Brand Gummy Bears
- Nerds
- Starburst jelly beans (Jelly Belly brand is not safe, contains peanuts)
- Starburst brand and sweet tart brand of candy canes
- Fruit Roll Ups
- Jello Fruit snacks
- Sunkist Fruit Snacks
- Welches Fruit Snacks
- Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks
- Fruit Smoothie Blitz Fruit Snacks
- Florida’s Natural Fruit Snacks
- Super Rope
- Red Vine Licorice
- Popsicle Brand popsicles
- Nestle Scooby Doo Push Up Frozen Slushy
- Nestle Brand Superman Stick Ice Pops
- Flavor Ice
- Tootsie Pops
- Pringles Potato Chips (not the flavored versions)
- Lays Potato Chips (not the flavored versions)
- Ruffles Potato Chips (not the flavored versions)
- Fritos
- Fruit Variety of Pop Tarts
- Keebler Sugar Wafers-Vanilla
- Hostess Golden Cupcakes and Cupcakes
- Hostess Cinnamon Crumb Cake
- Hostess Powdered Donuts and Frosted Donuts
- Hostess Twinkies
- Hostess Ding Ho Ho’s, Ding Dongs
- Zingers Iced Vanilla, Devils Food, Raspberry