Scientists are in the process of developing a hypo-allergenic apple that causes no allergic reaction. While apples rarely cause the same intense allergic reaction as shellfish or peanuts, they often cause irritation for those allergic to birch pollen or cause blisters on the tongue or lips.

The large collective working on the project, called the Ager Melo Group, consists of allergists, molecular biologists and plant physiologists working to breed new types of apples that would promote good nutrition and health, ABC News reported.

Dr. Alessandro Botton, a plant physiologist at the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment in the University of Padua, and his team are working to find alternative hypo-allergenic proteins that exist naturally in other plants and swap them for the irritation-causing proteins in apples.