Eating peanut butter on its own?
Is it normal to enjoy eating peanut butter on its own out of jar with a spoon?
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(25 yes)
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Pumpurrnickel
Yes, it's normal, though it's uncommon. Most people find peanut butter on its own unappetizing.
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S12207
It used to be one of my favorite snacks, and I made sure to top everything I ate with peanut butter. It's really bad for you which is why I stopped. At least try to limit your intake.
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Algum
Actually, peanut butter is not that bad for you. It's fat content is mostly unsaturated fats. It's almost transfat free. And it doesn't contain many bad high glycemic carbs either. Those are the two biggest health enemies today, transfats and high glycemic carbs, which are both abundant in many processed foods, I.e. potato chips, frozen pizzas, pizza rolls, frozen fish sticks, Mac and cheese, most store brand snack cakes, etc.
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S12207
It can be beneficial if you are sure to buy organic non-gmo peanut butter and know where they came from.
Peanuts contain high levels of omega 6 which causes inflammation, and we all now know immflamation is the root to most underlying health problems. Omega 6 is good, but in smaller portions. You want more omega 3 in your diet.
99% of the peanut butter in America has high counts of hydrogenated oils added that are not organic. These oils boost the omega 6 counts which further the immflamation risk on top of their other other list of issues.
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Algum
Actually, I'm looking at a jar of peanut butter now, it says it's got hydrogenated oils but it also says it has 0 trans fats. That's why I had been saying that it was transfat free, because I'd looked at the 0 transfat thing on the labels before. I thought hydrogenated oils automatically meant transfat. But previously, I'd read the nutrition contents but not the ingredients. That's why I was saying about the 0 transfat but not knowing about the hydrogenated oils. Oh well, lol.
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Algum
I didn't think peanut had much transfat, but if it does, I'm gonna watch that. Should've read the label more carefully, lol.
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Boojum
I do this, although peanuts aren't exactly a low-calorie food and I could do with losing more weight, so I feel a little guilty about it.
Supposedly, the fat in peanuts is good for us (or at least that's what the scientists are saying this week).
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rayb12
Ya that last part is what I was about to say. Dont feel guilty bro!
usually that just leads to more eating anyways
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wigz
Its a low GI food in its lesser or completlely unadulterated forms. High in fat but fat don't make you fat. Its really a great snack choice.
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Algum
Scientists are not always right, and they are not always all saying the same things, or sticking with them. Even you saying "that's what scientists are saying this week" says that. Scientists are highly intelligent people, but they're not always right and usually really aren't able to have the final say carved in stone about anything. I've read about numerous studies saying how artificial sweeteners can cause cancer, then studies saying they don't, then again studies saying they do. Same with numerous debating studies on whether aerobic cardiovascular excersising is really good for the heart or not. Same with different debating studies on the real benefits of vitamin c, or zinc. Or does living under powerlines, or getting too many x-rays really cause a brain tumor or not. The list goes on and on. Nothing can officially really ever be carved in stone.
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wigz
I eat 1/2 to 1 jar a week like this. It's a great snack. It's nutritious and has a lot of fat but it don't make you fat.
Me and my tiny dog hang out and eat PB together.
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Britneywolf
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Algum
I guess plain peanut butter is fairly ordinary. Let me think of something weirder, how about.. is it normal to eat pizza with pepperoni, chocolate syrup, and cat food? I've done that, no just kidding, lol. I just made that up.
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Boojum
That pizza sounds a little disgusting, but if you think about it, what's the real difference between pepperoni and cat food? I don't know the rules in the rest of the world, but in Britain, pet food has to be made from food-stuffs that are fit for human consumption. It's just bits that people don't normally eat. Probably some of the same bits that go into pepperoni.
As for the chocolate syrup, the classic American breakfast is pancakes and bacon, with maple syrup on the pancakes, so that's another sweet-cured meat combination.
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Algum
Pizza and chocolate syrup is not a combo I could taste simultaneously, as much as each one tastes real good on its own. My grandfather used to say that the different food you eat at a meal gets mixed up anyway once it's in your stomach. I agree, and I loved my grandpa, but once the different food from a meal is in your stomach, your taste buds no longer have to taste the combination. I'd love some pizza and then a chocolate sundae for dessert, but I could not taste both of those things on my taste buds at the same time. And I would need to drink something after the pizza and before the sundae to wash the leftover pizza bits from my mouth first.
The cat food addition is yet another story. It's true about cat and dog food, they're not allowed to contain any ingredients that the human body cannot handle, and people have been known to survive on it when no other food was available. It's more about it containing a taste that's usually not too favorable to human taste, like kidney, or brain. People have eaten that, but most prefer not to.
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