The All Natural PEANUT BUTTER DIET! by Mr.X

[KWKSLVR]

Less fat and protein with "regular" peanut butter. Not to mention that the more processing you can cut out, the better. Thats a LOT of peanut butter lol.

 

[benevolent anarchist]

Opinion of this article?

Mr. X et al; Opinion of this article?

All Peanut Butters Healthy
Processed or Fresh, Peanut Butter Is Good Food

By Daniel DeNoon

Reviewed By Michael Smith, MD
on Friday, October 03, 2003
WebMD Medical News

Oct. 3, 2003 -- Store-bought peanut butter is as good for you as the fresh-ground-in-the-health-food-store variety, a study shows.

That any kind of peanut butter is healthy seems too good to be true. But the lowly peanut is packed full of healthy oils and vitamin E.

Wait a minute. Doesn't processing raw peanuts into commercial peanut butter remove those healthy vitamins? No, find University of Georgia researcher Ron Eitenmiller, PhD, and colleagues. They measured vitamin E in raw peanuts, roasted peanuts, and commercial peanut butter.

The bottom line: Processing removes no more than 5% of total vitamin E from the product.

"We'd run so many studies on peanuts and peanut butters in the past, we had our suspicions that vitamin E content would remain high in the finished product," Eitenmiller says in a news release.

It's true that exposure to air erodes the vitamin E content of peanut butter. But Eitenmiller says that the commercial product's oil base and container protect against oxygen.

The findings appear in the September issue of the Journal of Food Sciences.

2 Tablespoons -- Not the Whole Jar

It's not just the vitamin E that makes peanut butter wholesome, says Leslie Bonci (pronounced BAWN-see), MPH, RD, director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

"There are some terrific health benefits to it, not just taste benefits," Bonci tells WebMD. "People get hung up on the fact that peanut butter has fat in it, but it is not as bad as other kinds of fat."

Bonci says the new findings confirm what she already knows: Grocery-store peanut butter is nutritionally the same as peanut butter freshly ground in a health-food store.

Which one should you pick? Let your personal taste be your guide, Bonci says.

"Fresh ground is not necessarily better," Bonci says. "The fat and calorie content are pretty much the same whether you grind your own or buy commercial peanut butter. The monounsaturated fat is still there."

But please remember this: Nothing is healthy unless portions are kept under control. Too much of a good thing is too much.

"The serving size is two tablespoons -- not the whole jar," Bonci warns.

SOURCES: Chun, J. Journal of Food Sciences, September 2003; vol 68: pp 2211-2214. Leslie Bonci, MPH, RD, director of sports nutrition , University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. News release, Institute of Food Technologies.

 

[young guns]

Re: Opinion of this article?

it's not a matter of vitamin E content.

the difference lies in the type of fats and carbs.

natural peanut butter is mostly monounsaturated fat (47%), with some polyunsaturated (omega-6 - 29%) and saturated fat (18%).
these percentages are the composition in the oil.

http://www.curezone.com/foods/fatspercent.asp

commercial peanut butters (like jif and skippy) add hydrogenated fats to give it the smooth texture and prevent oil separation. they also have a little more sugar than natural PB. therefore, you end up with less of the healthy fats and instead get to eat hydrogenated fats.

and even if there is still the same amount of monounsaturated fat in both, commercial PB has hydrogenated fat which natty PB doesn't. so for the brainchild that wrote this to say that these are nutritionally the same shows he doesn't know jack shit. yes, they may be calorically approximately the same, but nutritionally they are very different.

why are so many scientisit/doctors so damn retarded in regards to nutrition.

 

[KWKSLVR]

Re: Re: Opinion of this article?

why are so many scientisit/doctors so damn retarded in regards to nutrition.

Because so much of the public is to stupid to know the difference.

 

[young guns]

good point

 

[benevolent anarchist]

That’s what I thought. It seemed to be solely focused on Vitamin E content.

BTW. I make my own in my VitaMix 5000 blender.

 

[Mr.X]

How much would the results be altered if you used regular peanut butter instead of all natural peanut butter? I enjoy the taste so much better and the carbs/ protein didn't seem to be that much different?

I can't tell you "how much" but there would be a difference. All depending on your other aspects of the diet. Overall, the diet is NOT for regular peanut butter.

Mr.X

 

[Mr.X]

benevolent anarchist:

Vitamin E has nothing to do w/ why All natural is chosen, the article is scewed for ppl to believe otherwise - for folks that don't know the difference btwn all natural and regular this makes sense. However, to us educated dieters, we know that HYDROGENATED oils that are aftificially added to the peanut butter (regular) are what cause the raise in LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and prevent fat loss.

Mr.X

 

[benevolent anarchist]

Thanks.

 

[georgie24]

count me in!!! im down