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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2024

Legume Allergens Pea, Chickpea, Lentil, Lupine and Beyond.

Marua Abu Risha, Eva-Maria Rick, Melanie Plum, Uta Jappe

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Chickpea (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  8. Proteomic andFood chemistry. Molecular sciences · 2026
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  12. The prevalence of outgrowing non-priority legume allergies in children.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2025
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  15. [Vegan beware! Allergenic potential of legumes].Dermatologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marua Abu RishaClinical and Molecular Allergology, Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany.
Eva-Maria RickClinical and Molecular Allergology, Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany.
Melanie PlumClinical and Molecular Allergology, Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany.
Uta JappeClinical and Molecular Allergology, Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany. ujappe@fz-borstel.de.

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 01EA2109BBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung DZL 001C1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft JA 1007/2-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of the reviewIn the last decade, an increasing trend towards a supposedly healthier vegan diet could be observed. However, recently, more cases of allergic reactions to plants and plant-based products such as meat-substitution products, which are often prepared with legumes, were reported. Here, we provide the current knowledge on legume allergen sources and the respective single allergens. We answer the question of which legumes beside the well-known food allergen sources peanut and soybean should be considered for diagnostic and therapeutic measures. RECENT

findingsThese "non-priority" legumes, including beans, pea, lentils, chickpea, lupine, cowpea, pigeon pea, and fenugreek, are potentially new important allergen sources, causing mild-to-severe allergic reactions. Severe reactions have been described particularly for peas and lupine. An interesting aspect is the connection between anaphylactic reactions and exercise (food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis), which has only recently been highlighted for legumes such as soybean, lentils and chickpea. Most allergic reactions derive from IgE cross-reactions to homologous proteins, for example between peanut and lupine, which is of particular importance for peanut-allergic individuals ignorant to these cross-reactions. From our findings we conclude that there is a need for large-scale studies that are geographically distinctive because most studies are case reports, and geographic differences of allergic diseases towards these legumes have already been discovered for well-known "Big 9" allergen sources such as peanut and soybean. Furthermore, the review illustrates the need for a better molecular diagnostic for these emerging non-priority allergen sources to evaluate IgE cross-reactivities to known allergens and identify true allergic reactions.

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AllergensCicerCross ReactionsFabaceaeFood HypersensitivityLens PlantLupinusHumansImmunoglobulin EPisum sativumAllergensImmunoglobulin EAllergen characterizationAnaphylaxisBATFDEIAPeanutSoy

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PMCPMC11364600

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