Truth about GMO

Peanut butter is an "American" as baseball and apple pie!

It is a staple food in the vast majority of American households, if not every kitchen, and has been for generations.

It is at large and with many things including, white bread, crackers, celery, ice cream, bananas, milk shakes and much more.

There are even websites for PeanutButterLovers.com like peanut butter.

There is no doubt Peanut butter provides some nutritional value. One ounce of roasted peanuts, 10% of the daily value of folic acid, the naturally occurring form of the B vitamin folic acid, recommended for the reduction of birth defects and lowered heart disease risk.

But there is also no argument that the fact that the traditional, non-organic or all natural brands also offer some not-so-nutritional ingredients and has serious consequences for many allergy sufferers. Let's take a look at the big picture.

INGREDIENTS:

roasted peanuts, sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed and cottonseed) salt

Let's take a closer look at each of these ingredients: roasted peanuts

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A closer look at peanuts and learns that she not even in the "mother of the family." They are actually legumes in connection with peas, lentils, chickpeas and other beans.

But for as small as peanuts are, they pack a huge blow in terms of nutrition. They offer the following nutritional values:

mono-unsaturated fats? healthy fat is good for a strong heart vitamin folic acid, niacin E protein magnesium Resveratrol, the phenolic antioxidant found in red grapes and red wine

And there are numerous studies show that a diet with high peanuts can cardiovascular disorders.

Peanut allergies

Although allergic reactions can occur virtually any food, research studies on food allergy consistently report more problems with some foods than others. It turns out that peanuts are one of the foods most commonly associated with allergic reactions.

Many schools in the U.S. are banning ALL peanut products and even manufactured products in facilities where peanuts have been processed because of the high number of children allergic to them and the type of severe allergic reactions.

But if you are not allergic to peanuts, participation on a daily basis can be a good way to put your heart and body healthy and strong. Sugar

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Though less harmful than high fructose corn syrup (HFC), sugar offers no nutritional value.

Sugar is known to cause tooth decay, obesity, and hyper-activity, among others.

It is added to Peanut Butter to improve the taste and aroma.

partially hydrogenated vegetable oils:

In Peanut Butter, most commonly includes Cottonseed and canola oils. Let's take a closer look at each:

Cottonseed oil:

Wikipedia: Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil from the seeds of the cotton plant after the cotton lint has been removed. It must be refined to remove gossypol, a naturally occurring toxin that protects the cotton plant from insect damage. Therefore, not refined cottonseed oil is sometimes used as a pesticide. In its natural state unhydrogenated, cottonseed oil, like all vegetable oils, has no cholesterol. It also contains no trans fatty acids. It contains more than 50% omega-6 fatty acids and only traces of omega-3-fatty acids, and the imbalance is considered unhealthy, if not in moderation or elsewhere in the balanced diet. Further, these polyunsaturated fats may go rancid during the extraction process.

Cottonseed oil is rich in palmitic acid (22-26%), oleic acid (15-20%), linoleic acid (49-58%) and 10% mixture of Arachidic acid, and Behenic Lignoceric. It also contains about 1% sterculic acids and malvalic acids in the crude oil. The Cyclopropen acids are undesirable components, but they are largely removed during refining, particularly deodorization, and also during the hydrogenation. They are not considered possible health risks in cottonseed oil.

Cottonseed oil is commonly used in the manufacture of potato chips and other snacks. Along with soybean oil, it is very often wholly or partially hydrogenated. The growing consensus is that in hydrogenated (trans fat) form of these oils are very unhealthy. Cottonseed oil was the first hydrogenated oil in mass production, originally for the production candle, and soon also as a food (such as Crisco). In part because regulations apply differently than non-food crops, it was also suggested that cottonseed oil May, highly contaminated with pesticide residues, but insufficient testing has been done.

cotton (oil) is also one of the big four (soy, corn, rapeseed /canola and cotton) of genetically modified plants around the world. Rapeseed oil

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Wikipedia: Natural contains erucic acid rapeseed oil, which is slightly toxic to humans in large doses, but is used as a food additive in smaller doses. Rape is a trademark for low-erucic acid rapeseed, sometimes wrong on other varieties.

rape has been associated with adverse effects in asthma and hay fever sufferers. Some suggest that oilseed pollen is the cause of increased respiratory ailments. This is unlikely, however, because rape is a entomophilous harvest, with pollen transfer primarily by insects. Others suggest that the inhalation of dust rape that causes this and that on pollen allergies are relatively rare. It may also be a different effect at work, since rape in flower has a distinctive and pungent smell, hay fever sufferers wrongly May jump to the conclusion that the rape is that the debt simply because they can smell it.

I think you can summize for himself the not-so-nutritional these 2 vegetable oils offer us, albeit in peanut butter.

Partially hydrogenated oils, or trans fatty acids are something we all can do without. You have a serious impact on health and offer no nutritional value whatever. SALT

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A salt of the main functions is to regulate blood volume and pressure, the flexibility of blood vessels. Taken in moderation, it is a good thing for our health.

however, if in large quantities, it can be quite the opposite.

ALTERNATIVES

Homemade Peanut butter is the absolute healthiest alternative, because you always know exactly what the final product. Here is an example homemade recipe:

You can use a blender, food processor or electric mincer.

3 cups roasted peanuts organic EL 2-3. Honey 5-7 TBS. Extra-virgin olive oil (or until desired consistency) peanuts help control blood sugar and contain antioxidants, such as olive oil and honey.

There are other "peanut-replacement" products on the market for people with allergies to peanuts. Although difficult to find, I would recommend only a natural or ecological diversity. The traditionally processed varieties contain chemicals and preservatives.

purchase organic or all natural "mother spreads" on your local organic food store, is another alternative. They are fresh, all natural and offer all the nutrition without unnecessary or harmful ingredients.

CONCLUSION

Non-organic peanuts are routinely treated with pesticides. This is a consideration. Another is the hydrogenated oils, and particularly the cottonseed oil, in the conventional peanut butter brands.

If we nutritional peanut butter provides, as our justification to continue to eat conventional brands, then you could say, why not take the place of raw nuts and thus the existence of the oils?

I think we have to the decisions, the healthiest for us, even if it comes to something that we tend to love so much, like peanut butter.

All natural, organic peanut butter May cost a few cents more, are just as tasty, May have a slightly different structure, but are void, which is harmful and full of everything healthy. It is a healthy choice, we can without our own personal pleasure? .. A good old-fashioned PB & J!

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