The 2020 - 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) include new recommendations to introduce peanuts and other common food allergens around six months when complementary feeding begins and to introduce peanuts between four and six months for children at higher risk for peanut allergy (severe eczema, egg allergy, or both). This study aimed to explore parent knowledge and implementation of these recommendations using three focus groups with parents and caregivers (n = 13) of young children enrolled in Early Care and Education centers in South Georgia (100% female, 82% Black, 72% aged 20 – 29). Four themes (little knowledge, choking fear, reliance on family, and picky eating) and two subthemes (peanuts as most concerning, family food allergy history) emerged. This study contributes new information on parents' and caregivers’ early food allergen introduction beliefs and concerns. These findings can inform subsequent studies and future educational efforts on the early introduction of common allergenic foods.