Tree nuts such as cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, almonds, Brazil nuts and pistachios are legumes like chickpeas and lentils, rather than nuts.

Can you eat chickpeas if your allergic to nuts?

Individual advice may vary, but if chickpea was already eaten and tolerated, there would be no reason to avoid it because of a peanut allergy. Lastly, a positive allergy test to chickpea in a person with peanut allergy does not prove an allergy.

Are chickpeas the same as peanuts?

Peanuts are legumes, like peas, lentils and chickpeas, and diverse other plants like wattles and the black bean tree of Queensland. The proteins in peanut are very different to those in tree nuts which include almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnut, macadamia nuts, pecans, pistachios or walnuts.