Unqualified nutrition nerd. 🙋🏻♀️ Peanuts do seem to have a higher tendency of absorbing/developing some bad compounds compared to other nuts (although peanuts are technically legumes 🙄) but the benefits seem to outweigh the side effects. Pay attention to how you feel, don’t eat too much of it and you’ll be great. Variety is much more valuable for your microbial than splitting hairs about real, whole food.
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*microbiome
this is some really awesome insight and thoughts 💜
never even heard of the word legumes before 🤔
Great points but also peanut butter (which originally sparked the discussion) isn’t a whole food; the added oils and sugars at least are definitely not good
Those are definitely not worth discussing. I was referring to 100% pure peanut butter. Nothing added. Blended whole food? 😅
I’d still balk at the PUFAs but yeah that’s a LOT better… hard to find on US shelves though, most is absolute crap
Variety, whole foods 💜👍