Feeding peanut products to infants was connected with a 43 percent lower association with developing peanut allergies, according to a study published recently in the journal Pediatrics.

Researchers analyzed medical records of about 120,000 children younger than 3, comparing cohorts of children before and after varying guidelines and recommendations that shifted.

The findings come nearly a decade after guidelines began encouraging parents and caregivers to introduce peanut-containing foods earlier in babies’ diets.

For decades, medical experts had recommended waiting until children were 3 years old to introduce peanuts. But that started to shift after the 2015 Learning Early About Peanut Allergy study, which showed that letting children as young as 4 months try peanuts earlier reduced th

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