Peanut butter and why it is addicting

After a poster quoted that peanut butter "must contain crack" (kudos to whoever thought of this--awesome!) because of its addictiveness, it got me thinking. Why has peanut butter been claimed as one of the most addictive health foods?

1.) Healthy fats: Probably one of the most obvious answers. Dieters often get the mindset that fats in foods are bad and should be avoided. Wrong! Choose healthy fats from nuts, nut butters, seeds, olive oils, and avocados. 20-30% of your calories should come from fat.

2.) Nutrients: Peanut butter contains many of the vitamins and nutrients that dieters often cut in order to shed pounds. Copper is one of those nutrients, mostly found in red meat, which dieters often cut down or eliminate from their diets. Niacin and tryptophan are mostly found in chicken and fish, so vegetarians often seek these nutrients found in peanut butter.

Learn all about the benefits of peanuts found in the tasty butter here: http://whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspic e&dbid=101

The next time you take an extra spoonful of peanut butter and are thinking of punishing yourself, pat yourself on the back and say, "my body was probably just replenishing itself of some needed nutrients!" So let's all welcome back peanut butter and include it into our daily diets. Hope you all enjoyed my little show about peanuts. :D

argh! peanut butter! it's from HELL. i hate this 'healthy fat' things, in my rather large book, there's no such thing as a healthy fat. even the word fat repulses me. my mate lee, well, he's not my mate, but this lad i know, called lee, reckons just because he used to suffer apparently from anorexia but now he's recovered (even though he has a phobia of touching apple stalks, for some bizarre reason, and he has a fear of the smell of greggs bakery), that he's some form of nutrition expert, and he constantly tells me peanut butter is good. it's NOT. i remember the last time somebody told me peanuts and the like were good, and i was like 11 and naive, and i went onto this peanut diet, where everytime i was hungry, i ate those peanut cereal bars called tracker, and i went up to 10 and a half stone! and when i questioned why, it's because peanuts are like the most calorific things ever. and teamed with butter? isn't butter just pure fat anyway?

it's all disgusting, i'm convinced.

luckily, i hate butter anyway, and i've never touched it since i was 3. i dont know why, but i always remember trying a ham and cheese and butter sandwich at my nan's, and the butter stuck to the roof of my mouth, and it disgusted me so much, i havent touched it since.

lo-fat salad cream rules all  xx

ageliki!

and it must do! otherwise why's it called peanut butter?

does it have jam in it instead? :) xx.

It is called butter  because of its consistency.  There is no butter in PB.  Most of the time, it is just peanuts, salt, and sugar.

And PB and peanuts ARE good for you, in a normal amount.  You just can't eat cup after cup, bar after bar.

I would love to eat PB more than I do, but I know my limits!

lollll.. I despise butter but LOVE peanut butter. and agelikiaddcition, didn't you say you hated calories as well?  I'm sorry, but this is already too funny.

Mmmm peanut butter!

I love spreading it on Thomas' english muffins (the 100 cal ones) and having a pickle spear on the side! Sooo good! I think I'll go get some right now :)

Original Post by green_tea_turtle_baby:

Mmmm peanut butter!

I love spreading it on Thomas' english muffins (the 100 cal ones) and having a pickle spear on the side! Sooo good! I think I'll go get some right now :)

 pickles and peanut butter?

Original Post by sybil878:

Original Post by green_tea_turtle_baby:

Mmmm peanut butter!

I love spreading it on Thomas' english muffins (the 100 cal ones) and having a pickle spear on the side! Sooo good! I think I'll go get some right now :)

 pickles and peanut butter?

Yes! They taste really good together! :)

I love 1 tbs of peanut butter mixed into oatmeal or on some toast or with apple slices or just by itself! So good! =)

well, nuts do have a lot of calories packed into them, but they're still healthy... now if you eat mountains of nuts of course you'll gain weight duh....

i must say... I took some unsalted pecans to work today to snack on, and I was suprised at how many calories they pack into those little guys, I barely had to even eat a meal for dinner to fill up

Original Post by revolution3:

lollll.. I despise butter but LOVE peanut butter. and agelikiaddcition, didn't you say you hated calories as well?  I'm sorry, but this is already too funny.

 lmao yes i'm the calorie hater! infact, if i could consume 0 calories a day, i'd be the happiest lassie alive. :)

and to xeonicus, above me, i know what you mean about pecans, and stuff like you get those little bags of bombay mixes and nuts and s**t from vending machines. when i was first at college, i tried one of the bombay mixes, which tasted like utter rabbit food, but i thought, ooh, low calorie content, and then when i checked the back, it had like half a days worth in! xx.

Original Post by agelikiaddiction:

Original Post by revolution3:

lollll.. I despise butter but LOVE peanut butter. and agelikiaddcition, didn't you say you hated calories as well?  I'm sorry, but this is already too funny.

 lmao yes i'm the calorie hater! infact, if i could consume 0 calories a day, i'd be the happiest lassie alive. :)

 

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