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dangers of peanut butter
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Ramcononer
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Interesting and scary but I feel it may be overexaggerated. My father inlaw eats PB all the time for 65 years and hes still up and bitching.
SgtSlaughter
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I don't eat organic PB. Nor would I take the advice from some columist... I will admit i didn't read the article throughly. After i saw organic it didn't apply to me anymore, lol.
ANPB (All Natural) is what I prefer... as long as the ingredient list just has "peanuts" on it. It's good to go for me.
Though i've resorted to Skippy lately because I haven't had the motivation to go get more ANPB
ANPB (All Natural) is what I prefer... as long as the ingredient list just has "peanuts" on it. It's good to go for me.
Though i've resorted to Skippy lately because I haven't had the motivation to go get more ANPB
jpt
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at least get jiff extra crunchy brutha lolSarge_ said:I don't eat organic PB. Nor would I take the advice from some columist... I will admit i didn't read the article throughly. After i saw organic it didn't apply to me anymore, lol.
ANPB (All Natural) is what I prefer... as long as the ingredient list just has "peanuts" on it. It's good to go for me.
Though i've resorted to Skippy lately because I haven't had the motivation to go get more ANPB
Kabeetz
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Nothing wrong with posting an article but peanut butter is not dangerous. I refuse to argue this point.
It's just like one day caffeine is good one day caffeine is bad one day chocolate is good one day chocolate is bad one day high protein one day low...
bottom line if u stick with natural, whole foods with ingredients u can pronounce that people have been eating for decades and even centuries you're gonna be fine, imo.
It's just like one day caffeine is good one day caffeine is bad one day chocolate is good one day chocolate is bad one day high protein one day low...
bottom line if u stick with natural, whole foods with ingredients u can pronounce that people have been eating for decades and even centuries you're gonna be fine, imo.
YoungIntricateMuscle
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wtf -
"Statistically, just as a rule of thumb, two tablespoons of peanut butter a day produce a higher risk of death than living next to a nuclear power plant"
but this makes me feel better -
"Now, I know certain consumer studies have found higher concentrations in fresh ground peanut butter. But I honestly think you have to weigh the balance of issues here. GCPB?s are full of, sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oils, artificial flavorings, chemical preservatives and synthetic coal tar dyes to give it a healthy color. Fresh ground will not contain these products. Chemically altered hydrogenated oils are probably one of the roots of the obesity/heart disease problems in the U.S. today. If you are truly a peanut butter aficionado, grind your own peanut butter from canned or fresh roasted peanuts. I tend to buy the ?smuckers natural? which should probably have the best of both worlds. It?s a premium peanut butter, which probably uses peanuts of U.S. origin, and has no trans-fats. Best of both worlds, somewhat.
"Aflatoxin is always present in peanuts. There is no time in which aflatoxin is not present in them."
I Didn't mean to imply that there was any time that aflatoxins aren't in peanuts, just generally, for human consumption, they are pretty well monitored.
Secondarily, you are more likely to have higher concentrations of the toxins on peanut shipments that have taken 2 months to drive by boat from china through numerous temperature fluxtuations in a high humidity area (at sea) due to that being how aflatoxins grow, in humidity > 50% and in temps between 80F and 100F. Those shipping cartons generally sit right in that range for a while.
Peanuts sitting on a shelf in an air conditioned store are not likely to grow any significant amounts of aflatoxin unless they sit there a long time. Frankly, I don't buy peanuts from health food stores to make PB. Plenty of locals to buy em from round south GA/north FL
Just because some consumer reports found high levels of aflotoxin in health food stores vs premium brands of PB doesn't really paint all 'organic' or 'natural' PB as high in toxins. It just suggests that in one study it was found to be so.
It doesn't address the other possible risks of hydrogenated oils and artificial chemicals that are in GCPB either (nor their PB premium counterparts)
Like I said, I'm not an organic food nut, in fact I think most of that stuff is BS to get your money, but I am a 'locally grown, natural food nut' who likes to know where the stuff he eats came from. Which is why I tend to like natural (read: home grown) pb, fresh veggies, etc, and when I can, I buy 'old strain' veggies. They just plain taste better than all that hybridized, processed crap."
"Statistically, just as a rule of thumb, two tablespoons of peanut butter a day produce a higher risk of death than living next to a nuclear power plant"
but this makes me feel better -
"Now, I know certain consumer studies have found higher concentrations in fresh ground peanut butter. But I honestly think you have to weigh the balance of issues here. GCPB?s are full of, sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oils, artificial flavorings, chemical preservatives and synthetic coal tar dyes to give it a healthy color. Fresh ground will not contain these products. Chemically altered hydrogenated oils are probably one of the roots of the obesity/heart disease problems in the U.S. today. If you are truly a peanut butter aficionado, grind your own peanut butter from canned or fresh roasted peanuts. I tend to buy the ?smuckers natural? which should probably have the best of both worlds. It?s a premium peanut butter, which probably uses peanuts of U.S. origin, and has no trans-fats. Best of both worlds, somewhat.
"Aflatoxin is always present in peanuts. There is no time in which aflatoxin is not present in them."
I Didn't mean to imply that there was any time that aflatoxins aren't in peanuts, just generally, for human consumption, they are pretty well monitored.
Secondarily, you are more likely to have higher concentrations of the toxins on peanut shipments that have taken 2 months to drive by boat from china through numerous temperature fluxtuations in a high humidity area (at sea) due to that being how aflatoxins grow, in humidity > 50% and in temps between 80F and 100F. Those shipping cartons generally sit right in that range for a while.
Peanuts sitting on a shelf in an air conditioned store are not likely to grow any significant amounts of aflatoxin unless they sit there a long time. Frankly, I don't buy peanuts from health food stores to make PB. Plenty of locals to buy em from round south GA/north FL
Just because some consumer reports found high levels of aflotoxin in health food stores vs premium brands of PB doesn't really paint all 'organic' or 'natural' PB as high in toxins. It just suggests that in one study it was found to be so.
It doesn't address the other possible risks of hydrogenated oils and artificial chemicals that are in GCPB either (nor their PB premium counterparts)
Like I said, I'm not an organic food nut, in fact I think most of that stuff is BS to get your money, but I am a 'locally grown, natural food nut' who likes to know where the stuff he eats came from. Which is why I tend to like natural (read: home grown) pb, fresh veggies, etc, and when I can, I buy 'old strain' veggies. They just plain taste better than all that hybridized, processed crap."
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