The possible breakthrough comes after a clinical trial at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge proved successful in enabling most children with peanut allergy to eat the nut without suffering a dangerous reaction.
In the trial, which involved 99 children aged between seven and sixteen split into two groups, participants were given daily doses of peanut protein.
Children were initially given a tiny dose of peanut protein, with the dose gradually built-up over a period of four to six months.
By the end of the six months, 84 per cent of one group and 91 per cent of the other could eat at least five peanuts a day.
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