Researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute have found the wide-spread introduction of peanut products to babies early in their life has blunted peanut allergy rates.

Dr Victoria Soriano said the study focused on two groups of babies, one group born in 2007 and the other in 2018-19.

The group born in 2018 had more food allergy risk factors in their cohort, however allergy rates didn’t go up.

“There were quite big differences in the demographics between those two populations,” Dr Soriano said on 6PR Breakfast.

“For example, children of east-Asian ancestry increased, and they have a much higher risk of getting peanut allergies.

“So with those demographic changes we would have actually expected an increase in peanut allergy, but we didn’t see that increase which is amazing.”

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