No known issues Doola Scan's answer in the United States
Peanuts aren't on the pregnancy food lists of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Ireland, so Doola Scan shows No known issues, raw, roasted, boiled or as peanut butter. The NHS says you can eat peanuts in pregnancy unless you have an allergy or a doctor or midwife has told you not to. Health NZ puts nuts and legumes in the food group that gives protein, iron and zinc, and suggests peanut butter as a sandwich filling and a dip for vegetable sticks.
Checked against Doola Scan's pregnancy rules · Updated
Roasted peanuts, shelled or in the shell
No known issuesIn all six countries
Raw peanuts (kachi mungfali)
No known issuesIn all six countries
Boiled peanuts
No known issuesIn all six countries
Peanut butter
No known issuesIn all six countries
Doola Scan checking a plate
What each country says
Peanuts while pregnant: what each country says.
Each country's own pregnancy guidance on peanuts, with a link to it. Doola Scan uses your country's first.
No known issues
None of the six countries' pregnancy guidance names peanuts.
Questions
About peanuts in pregnancy.
Mungfali isn't on the pregnancy food lists of these six countries, so Doola Scan shows No known issues. The NHS says you can eat peanuts in pregnancy unless you're allergic or have been told not to by a doctor or midwife.
Raw peanuts aren't named in these countries' pregnancy guidance, so Doola Scan shows No known issues for them, as for roasted and boiled peanuts. No country gives a separate rule for raw peanuts.
Health NZ puts legumes, nuts and seeds in the food group that gives protein, iron and zinc, and says the iron in them isn't as easily absorbed as the iron in meat. The NHS lists nuts among the protein foods to eat every day in pregnancy.
The NHS says you can eat peanuts in pregnancy "unless you've been told not to have them by a doctor or midwife or you have an allergy". If you're allergic, that comes first, and your doctor or midwife can advise you.
Boiled peanuts aren't named in these six countries' pregnancy guidance, so Doola Scan shows No known issues for them.
The peanuts themselves aren't on any list. For salt, the NHS says adults should have no more than 6g a day, and Doola Scan reads a salted or masala pack ingredient by ingredient.
The guidance is the same in every trimester. Peanuts aren't named at any stage of pregnancy, and the NHS allergy advice applies throughout.
Yes. Take a photo of the plate, the menu or the label, and Doola Scan checks every ingredient against your country's pregnancy guidance. Food scans are free, 3 a day.
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Point Doola at a plate, a menu or a label. It checks every ingredient against your country's pregnancy guidance and shows its sources. Food scans are free, 3 a day.
Doola shows what official guidance says; it never diagnoses. No known issues means none of these countries' pregnancy guidance names it, not a promise that a food is safe.
Doola Scan's answer in the United States
No known issues