In this video, I will uncover the truth about peanut butter.
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In this video, we are talking about the truth about peanut butter.
This is a really interesting topic because all the time when I am at the gym, I hear
the trainer’s telling their trainees to have peanut butter and toast for breakfast
and put peanut butter on a bagel, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, peanut butter, and apples,
make sure that you are eating lots of peanut butter.
I always cringe when I hear this because there is a lot to know about peanut butter and if
you don't know this you are probably putting a lot of toxins in your body.
Let's go ahead and talk about what you need to know about peanut butter and then some
better options.
So let's get started.
The first thing that you need to know is sugar and really all of these things are related
to the label.
Paying attention to the label.
Make sure you are reading the label on your peanut butter.
So first here is sugar, we have to make sure that we are avoiding peanut butter with sugar
it.
Much of it has that in there just for, first of all, to make it taste better, more appealing,
but also to make it more addictive.
We know that sugar is very addictive to the brain so the brand with the most sugar in
it is typically the brand that the average person might like most.
The other problem with sugar is that the sugar that is in the peanut butter is typically
in the way of corn syrups.
We have to make sure that we are avoiding sugar all together and of course the ones
with the really bad sources of sugar in it, which is corn syrup.
Next here on our list is hydrogenated oils.
When we look at these peanut butters, they typically have very cheap oils in them.
Like cottonseed oil or soybean oil and it is just to keep the price down but it is also
to make it very creamy.
People tend to like that more.
But hydrogenated oils drag inflammation into our body and are very unhealthy for us.
We want to make sure that it has no bad oils to it.
Even organic brands typically have hydrogenated oils added right in.
Next here on our list is molasses.
I have no idea why peanut butter needs molasses but a lot of it does have it in it.
And then next is aflatoxin, basically, aflatoxin is a mold that is grown on the peanuts, simply
because the peanuts are growing on the ground.
The peanuts that are growing on the ground have these aflatoxins in them and it has been
found to be linked to cancer.
So we have to make sure that we are aware of that too.
And then last here on our list is toxins.
When we look at peanuts they are very highly sprayed during the growing process, they are
covered with pesticides, herbicides and the glysophate, as well.
We want to make sure that we are getting good quality peanut butter, typically the organic,
at the very least so that we know they are not covered in toxins throughout the cold
growing process.
Let's look at some better options.
First of all, many people love peanut butter, but there are other options besides peanut
butter and the first here is almond butter.
What I recommend is a nice, raw almond butter and I recommend raw because what that means
is that it hasn't been roasted and that means that the fats within the almonds have been
denatured.
Getting a raw almond butter is a great option.
The next here is Valencia peanut butter.
Valencia peanut butter is a better option because it is not grown on the ground.
The peanuts are grown off the ground in more of like a bush and essentially it does not
get the mold issue so it does not have the aflatoxin issue.
Valencia peanut butter is a great option.
Typically you can find that at Trader Joe's and then the other great option is peanut
butter that comes from jungle peanuts and that is typically a little bit harder to find,
but the Internet makes it a little bit easier if you want a jungle peanut, peanut butter.
Last here is sunflower seed butter.
Once again, if you don't like peanut butter or you have a sensitivity to almonds there
is always a sunflower seed butter and that is great because it actually comes from the
seed.
It is loaded with vitamin E, magnesium, good quality fats, and even protein.
When we look at sunflower seed butter it is a great option, as well.
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If I find them.
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