In this article, I’m going to tell you about the healthiest peanut butter. Peanuts don't typically cause health issues, but they can cause bloating for some people, and it's still important to consume the right peanuts. Peanuts are not nuts—they are legumes that grow in the soil. Conventional peanuts are heavily sprayed with pesticides and fungicides, which seep into the soil and penetrate their thin shells. This is why you should always choose organic peanuts and peanut butter. Glyphosate is also commonly found in peanuts. Glyphosate can act as an antibiotic and is found in many GMO foods. Always read the label on your peanut butter and ensure it doesn't contain hydrogenated oils. Hydrogenated vegetable oils don’t actually come from vegetables at all—they’re seed oils! Also, avoid peanut butter with added sugar. Monoglycerides are sometimes added to peanut butter. A French study linked this ingredient to cancer and found that it can increase the risk of certain cancers by 46%. Look for peanut butter that only contains peanuts and salt. Organic Valencia peanut butter that contains only Valencia peanuts and sea salt is the best option. Valencian peanuts contain the fewest amounts of aflatoxins. Aflatoxins come from mold and can be very damaging to the liver. Try to have your peanuts with a meal rather than as a snack to avoid spiking insulin.
You know the worst thing you could do to a person is take away their peanuts, okay, and I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to talk about what type of peanuts you should focus more on because if you end up buying the wrong type of peanuts or peanut butter, you may find that your health is going to suffer. There's this one ingredient in 80% of all peanut butter that you don't want in your body. And if you eat the right type of peanut butter or peanuts, I don't think there's going to be a lot of health issues, but I recently started the carnivore diet just to test it out for a couple weeks. After the elimination of the nuts, my bloating went away, so I'm not going back to peanuts; you can if it doesn't bloat you, but I have also gone back to vegetables, so my diet right now is a combination; it's like 50% carnivore and 50% plant-based because I do like my salads.
But let's talk about the difference between conventional peanut butter and peanuts. When you're consuming conventional peanuts, unfortunately, peanuts are probably one of the most heavily sprayed with pesticides, insecticides, and especially fungicides out of many different things that you might eat. A peanut is not an actual nut; it's a legume. And so when they spray, it gets into the soil, where the peanut is, and this peanut shell is very thin, unlike a walnut, which has a hard shell. You really need to do organic peanuts or peanut butter; okay, that's number one. There's also an herbicide called glyphosate, which can act like an antibiotic. It's in a lot of different GMO foods, and that's been known to be in peanuts simply because they rotate the crops from a GMO food to a peanut back and forth. The other thing is that you must read the label, because if it says hydrogenated anything, don't consume it.
Maybe you've heard of partially hydrogenated fats, which gave you all these trans fats. Well, what's the difference between hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated? Really, I think from my own viewpoint, it's very similar, even though they say that hydrogenate doesn't have the trans fats. You're basically using the same process of adding hydrogen under high heat, and then it becomes partially hydrogenated, then they leave it in longer, and then it becomes fully hydrogenated. So you're using seed oils. They put this in peanut butter, so you just don't want to even have that in your body.
The other thing that slips in there is the sugar sometimes family members will buy peanut butter right and I'll start consuming it on something I'm like wow this is really good and I'm like up let me read the label this is why it's so good because it has sugar in it but there's one more ingredient that's a carcinogen it can increase the risk of certain cancers by 46% and that ingredient is monoglycerides there's a French study that links it to cancer so we don't want that in our diets and they use it just to kind of break things up so you don't have that layer of oil at the top so if you find a peanut butter that has all of those factors I would upgrade to a better quality peanut butter okay.
Peanuts and salt It's pretty natural; if we want to improve it more, we want Organic peanuts and sea salt If we want to improve it even a little bit more, I would recommend Valencia Organic Peanuts; they're the ones that have the least amount of potential afotoxin, which is a a toxin from certain molds that can grow on peanuts, which is very very damaging to the liver, and they use sea salt, which is better than regular table salt Sometimes it's really hard to not overdo it with peanuts or peanut butter I know if I sit down and start eating peanuts, I will pretty much eat the whole bag, and I can feel this heavy feeling underneath my rib cage. That's my gallbladder trying to digest these fats.
One more point about peanuts and peanut butter: if you can have them with the meal, that's better than a snack, especially if you're snacking late at night, because anything that you consume of any significance as far as calories can spike the insulin, and if you're into intermittent fasting, nuts are a dangerous item to have around, especially late at night. Now that we're on the topic of nuts, if you have not seen my video on walnuts, you might want to check that out. I put it up right here.
