(CNN) – It has been a decade since a landmark study sparked new guidelines, recommending peanut products be fed to young babies in order to help prevent the development of life-threatening allergies.

Since then, peanut allergies have significantly declined in the U.S., according to a new study.

In today’s Health Minute, an expert shares how peanut products can safety be introduced to babies.

For decades, parents were told to keep peanuts and nut products away from young children until age 3, but in 2015, research caused experts to flip flop.

The current guidelines say introducing these foods in infancy can actually help prevent food allergies.

Dr. Ruchi Gupta, director of the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research, said, “The end the goal is to see this tide turn.”

A new study p

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