When a person is discovered to be allergic to one tree nut, they are often told to avoid other nuts in general. This popular belief has been put to the test recently under scientist supervision.

In these studies, patients can undergo a supervised, oral food test. The patient can taste multiple other nuts to confirm or disprove their allergy to other nuts.

According to LiveScience, about 76% of patients pass the oral food test. 91% of patients who only had a nut sensitivity, however, passed. In addition, every participant passed when given an almond. 96% of people with peanut allergies passed when given tree nuts.

Most of these studies were completed over a series of tests over multiple years, having similar results every time. This improves the reliability and soundness of the studies and their results.

So you can get tested today to see if you can eat that nut you’ve never tried.