peanut butter

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Is there anything nutritious in peanut butter? How about the kind of fat it contains?

margo

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Is there anything nutritious in peanut butter? How about the kind of fat it contains?

margo

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Peanut butter

NDB No: 16398 Nutrient Units Value per 100 grams of edible portion Proximates Water g 1.22 409 0.016
Energy kcal 593 0 Energy kj 2482 0 Protein g 25.21 629 0.048 Total lipid (fat) g 51.03 602 0.060 Ash
g 3.25 368 0.007 Carbohydrate, by difference g 19.29 0 Fiber, total dietary g 5.9 7 0.382 Sugars,
total g 7.81 0 Minerals Calcium, Ca mg 38 67 1.114 Iron, Fe mg 1.84 510 0.034 Magnesium, Mg mg 159
346 2.682 Phosphorus, P mg 369 341 1.972 Potassium, K mg 669 214 3.751 Sodium, Na mg 17 0 Zinc, Zn
mg 2.92 325 0.019 Copper, Cu mg 0.138 50 0.032 Manganese, Mn mg 0.447 50 0.102 Selenium, Se mcg 7.5
27 0.337 Vitamins Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid mg 0.0 0 Thiamin mg 0.083 26 0.006 Riboflavin mg
0.105 30 0.004 Niacin mg 13.403 480 0.047 Pantothenic acid mg 0.806 12 0.070 Vitamin B-6 mg 0.454 14
0.033 Folate, total mcg 74 11 10.415 Folic acid mcg 0 0 Folate, food mcg 74 11 10.415 Folate, DFE
mcg_DFE 74 0 Vitamin B-12 mcg 0.00 0 Vitamin A, IU IU 0 0 Vitamin A, RAE mcg_RAE 0 0 Retinol mcg 0 0
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) mg 7.68 0 Vitamin K (phylloquinone) mcg 0.8 0 Lipids Fatty acids, total
saturated g 11.193 0
4: g 0.000 0
5: g 0.000 0
6: g 0.000 0
7: g 0.000 0
8: g 0.022 0
9: g 0.217 47
10: g 5.713 47
11: g 2.691 47
12: g 0.700 0
13: g 1.400 0
14: g 0.450 0 Fatty acids, total monounsaturated g 24.276 0
15:1 undifferentiated g 0.000 0
16:1 undifferentiated g 23.843 47
17:1 g 0.433 47
18:1 undifferentiated g 0.000 0 Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated g 13.788 0
19:2 undifferentiated g 13.710 47
20:3 undifferentiated g 0.078 0
21:4 g 0.000 0
22:4 undifferentiated g 0.000 0
23:5 n-3 g 0.000 0
24:5 n-3 g 0.000 0
25:6 n-3 g 0.000 0 Cholesterol mg 0 0 Phytosterols mg 102 0 Amino acids Tryptophan g 0.245 0
Threonine g 0.864 0 Isoleucine g 0.887 0 Leucine g 1.635 0 Lysine g 0.905 0 Methionine g 0.309 0
Cystine g 0.323 0 Phenylalanine g 1.307 0 Tyrosine g 1.025 0 Valine g 1.058 0 Arginine g 3.016 0
Histidine g 0.637 0 Alanine g 1.002 0 Aspartic acid g 3.076 0 Glutamic acid g 5.269 0 Glycine g
1.519 0 Proline g 1.113 0 Serine g 1.242 0 Other Alcohol, ethyl g 0.0 0 Caffeine mg 0 0
Theobromine mg 0 0 Carotene, beta mcg 0 0 Carotene, alpha mcg 0 0 Cryptoxanthin, beta mcg 0 0
Lycopene mcg 0 0 Lutein + zeaxanthin mcg 0 0 USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard
Reference, Release 16 (July 2003)

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Is there anything nutritious in peanut butter? How about the kind of fat it contains?

That would be cooked bean fat.
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It depends on what kind that you buy. Some of the big brand names -- skippy, jif, etc. -- contain
trans fats and added sugar. "Natural" peanut butter (which needs to be stirred) normally contains
only peanuts and salt. This kind contains mostly unsaturated fat but does have a some saturated fat
as well. In addition, peanut butter contains protein and some fiber.

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Is there anything nutritious in peanut butter? How about the kind of fat it contains?

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Is there anything nutritious in peanut butter? How about the kind of fat it contains?

margo

Is organic peanut butter better than non-organic one? Anyone?

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Is there anything nutritious in peanut butter? How about the kind of fat it contains?

margo

Is organic peanut butter better than non-organic one? Anyone?

It depends on what the organic ingredients are. What I mean is, it could contain organic sugar or
something else. It happens that the store brand that I use is organic but what I looked for was
ingredients that say either peanuts or peanuts and salt.

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It depends on what kind that you buy. Some of the big brand names -- skippy, jif, etc. -- contain
trans fats and added sugar. "Natural" peanut butter (which needs to be stirred) normally contains
only peanuts and salt. This kind contains mostly unsaturated fat but does have a some saturated
fat as well. In addition, peanut butter contains protein and some fiber.

Agreed, but to elaborate: The big brand names really tend to downplay the trans fats issue. The
Jif creamy reduced fat product replaces fat with sugar. Krema brand natural peanut butter is the
only one i'm aware of that has no sodium per serving. OTOH, Smucker's natural PBs have 120 mg
sodium per serving.

-p

Once upon a time, our fellow amanda rambled on about "Re: peanut butter." Our champion De-
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Is there anything nutritious in peanut butter? How about the kind of fat it contains?

margo

Is organic peanut butter better than non-organic one? Anyone?

Being that both peanut butter and peanut oil in general causes arteriosclerotic fiber to be laid
down in your arteries, obviously not!!!
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I have been buying freshly ground peanut butter at my local grocery store

and

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it has nothing but peanuts in it. Peanuts and peanut butter have "mono"

fats -

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same kind as olive oil - and it's supposed to be healthier than the other kinds.

Dorothy

This has been discussed before. Other posters and John Gohde have made comments. Search words are
lectins and peanuts. Google the newsgroup. The problem is peanuts themselves.

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In this study, 10 out of 36 participants were found to be positive for the Thomsen-Friedenreich
antigen, which causes the cells of their rectum to divide rapidly (possible risk factor for
colorectal cancer) when they eat peanuts.

Gastroenterology 1998 Jan;114(1):44-9 Peanut ingestion increases rectal proliferation in individuals
with mucosal expression of peanut lectin receptor. Ryder SD, Jacyna MR, Levi AJ, Rizzi PM, Rhodes
JM. Department of Gastroenterology, Northwick Park Hospital,

BACKGROUND & AIMS: The Thomsen-Friedenreich blood group antigen (galactose beta 1,3-N-acetyl
galactosamine alpha-) acts as an oncofetal antigen in the colonic epithelium, with low expression in
normal adult epithelia but increasing to fetal levels of expression in hyperplasia or malignancy.
Peanut lectin is one of the commonest dietary lectins that binds this antigen. The aim of this study
was to determine whether peanut ingestion can alter rectal epithelial proliferation.

METHODS: Thirty-six patients with normal colonic mucosa consumed 100 g of peanuts each day for 5
days. Rectal mitotic index was measured before and after ingestion, and changes in proliferation
were correlated with immunohistochemical detection of lectin receptor expression by colonocytes and
fecal lectin activity as measured by hemagglutination assay.

RESULTS: Peanut ingestion caused a 41% increase in rectal mucosal proliferation in individuals with
macroscopically normal mucosa who express TF antigen in their rectal mucosae (10 of 36 patients
studied). The proliferative response correlated with fecal hemagglutinating activity, and peanut
lectin could be shown immunohistochemically within the rectal mucosa.

CONCLUSIONS: The common expression of galactose beta 1,3-N-acetyl galactosamine alpha- by
hyperplastic and neoplastic epithelia may therefore be functionally important because it allows
interaction with mitogenic dietary lectins. This could be an important mechanism for the association
between diet and colorectal cancer.

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Here's an interesting table from who.intsection6.1.htmOpen ↗

Note that conditions which present multiple risks are called out separately -- for example, the risk
from black lung disease and the risk of an accident are listed separately for the condition of
living in a coal mine. Although the benzopyrene risk is cited for charcoal broiled steaks, the risk
from polyaromatic hydrocarbons and polyamines from the same steaks is not included in the table.

Note where peanut butter is on this table. I'll have the charcoal-broiled steaks, please.

Table 12. Risks which increase chance of death by 0.000001

Smoking 1.4 cigarettes -- Cancer, heart disease Drinking ½ litre of wine -- Cirrhosis of the liver
Spending 1 hour in a coal mine -- Black lung disease Spending 3 hours in a coal mine -- Accident
Living 2 days in New York or Boston -- Air pollution Travelling 5 minutes by canoe -- Accident
Travelling 10 miles by bicycle -- Accident Travelling 300 miles by car -- Accident Flying 1000 miles
by jet -- Accident Flying 6000 miles by jet -- Cancer caused by cosmic radiation Living 2 months in
Denver on vacation from New York -- Cancer caused by cosmic radiation Living 2 months in average
stone or brick building -- Cancer caused by natural radioactivity One chest X-ray taken in a good
hospital -- Cancer caused by radiation Living 2 months with a cigarette smoker -- Cancer, heart
disease Eating 40 tablespoons of peanut butter -- Liver cancer caused by aflatoxin B Drinking Miami
drinking-water for 1 year -- Cancer caused by chloroform Drinking 30 12 oz. cans of diet soda --
Cancer caused by saccharin Living 5 years at site boundary of a typical nuclear power plant in the
open -- Cancer caused by radiation Drinking 1000 24 oz. soft drinks from recently banned plastic
bottles -- Cancer from acrylonitrile monomer Living 20 years near PVC plant -- Cancer caused by
vinyl chloride (1976 standard) Living 150 years within 20 miles of a nuclear power plant -- Cancer
caused by radiation Eating 100 charcoal broiled steaks -- Cancer from benzopyrene Risk of accident
by living within 5 miles of a nuclear reactor for 50 years -- Cancer caused by radiation

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Is there anything nutritious in peanut butter? How about the kind of fat it contains?

margo

Some people have an intolerance of peanuts. They are hard to digest, as they are actually
beans not nuts.

In theory the oil in peanuts is mostly mono but that is before the oils that get added, which are
usually polyunsaturated.

Personally I rarely eat them because of their adverse effects.

And as others mentioned, 'peanut butter' usually contains sugar and assorted random oils to make it
smoother and nicer tasting.

Tim Josling

it contains beta sitosterol, which reduces cholest, I think