posted Thu, 06/28/2012 - 01:31
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A little trans fat here and there...
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I sometimes read you guys saying how you include peanut butter in your diet and how it's considered a healthy food and I'd like to be able to eat it too but here's the deal: most peanut butter brands (and there's not a wide variety of them where I live) include a certain amount of hydrogenated vegetable oils, A.K.A. Trans-Fat. Trans fat are bad for your health and something we should stay away from, then why do you guys eat it?
Is this something most of us are unaware of or is it that we can actually get away with it? Because my understanding on the subject is that trans-fat can't be metabolized into energy like normal fats can. What's your stance on eating small amounts of trans-fats?
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get some Almond butter, taste almost the same and its easier to find RAW, nothing added to it, good shit, blow you up big time!!!
juiceinatorThey don't have natural peanut butter near u?
Sometimes, I try really hard and find myself willing to pay an extra, I can find a brand of all-natural peanut butter. But in general, major brands and even those imported straight from the USA, they all have trans fats.
Some of the big chain grocery stores have a grinder set up that just takes unsalted peanuts and grinds/crushes them into peanut butter. Health food stores also usually can do this. That way you are not paying for some branded, overpriced "organic"product off the shelf.
Oh boy, I would love to see that. A shame we don't have it in the country where I live. When will people learn that the less processed foods are, the better they taste and the healthier they are?
The amount of trans fat in peanut butter is so small it's basically undetectable in test. They have to list all ingredients so it's on the label, but there are more good benefits than bad. I don't know what brand you buy, but that's the case with a lot of brands.
But isn't small amounts of trans fat a problem as well? I remember reading how manufacturing companies were trying to sneak quantities of trans fat below the level where they're not required to list it and how this was still bad for your health.
If there is any amount they have to put it on the label. If there were small amounts in everything you ate it would add up, but if your just talking about eating some peanut butter it shouldn't affect you. What you may be thinking of is companies had removed palm oil and palm kernel oil out for many years. They were not required to. They chose to. Kebler was the first and everyone else soon did it. If you look at processed foods they are starting to add it back in. It's on the label. It has to be on the label. You will see it occasionally.