Australian researchers may have found the key to helping children overcome a peanut allergy.

A group of children were fed boiled peanuts for a year – finding 80 per-cent of them were eventually able to eat 12 without having a reaction.

It’s hoped it could help protect children against accidental exposure..

But Flinders University Associate Professor Luke Grzeskowiak told Gary Adshead, it’s not an at-home treatment.

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