As someone who has always had a problem with calcium oxalate stones, I did not know peanut butter is so loaded with oxalates, so this is good information to have.
It’ll sound counter intuitive, but one way to avoid problems with oxalates is to consume calcium rich foods with oxalate high foods. For example, a glass of milk (soy milk counts) with a PB&J.
The reason this works is the calcium binds with the oxalate in your stomach and not your liver/kidneys.
For this to work, you have to consume both at the same time.
Something that’s always stuck with me (re:kidney stones) is that consistently sleeping on the same side seems to increase the likelihood of developing them.
In the 93 patients [of 110] who consistently slept to one side, the side in which renal stones were found was identical to the dependent sleep side in 76%. source
They cannot be eating relatively healthily if peanut butter is their only food for the whole day lol
Natural PB, or Kraft, Skippy, Jif? Cause that sugar shit will kill you.
Also, peanuts are not a nut, they are a legume.
So the ‘pea’ should be stressed?
Yes, except the pods grow underground instead of above ground, which is why the shells are so strong.
The only nut I eat is my own
Apparently this can really happen.
our patient consumed an estimated five times the typical quantity of oxalate daily. She ingested approximately 150 g of almonds daily … and six tablespoons (1/8 cup) of chia seeds … which ultimately caused kidney injury.
150 grams is ~130 almonds, and the chia seeds weigh ~90 grams. I’m surprised it took only 240 grams (about half a pound) of nuts/seeds a day to get sick but that’s still way more than most people eat and the relationship between dose and kidney disease isn’t linear.
Normally, small amounts of free oxalate are absorbed by the stomach, distal small intestines and colon in humans.
Love that there’s a peanut butter subreddit
Also it having a News tag for some reasons. Big developments going on in the peanut butter fandom.
There is a WaysToPBandJ sub as well (words might be off, close though).
I love PB n J’s. Huge variety in options.
Personal fav is homemade sourdough, fresh blueberry jam and almond butter, toasted on on my cast iron. Joy.
But this is also not “my food for the day” either XD
A pound or two a week sounds kind of moderate? I mean it’s a lot, but if you like peanut butter? I don’t eat nearly that much of it on average, but when I buy a 1 pound jar I usually finish it off in much less than a week. It’s just an occasional thing for me though.
Are those oxalates only if the PB is getting spoiled or anything like that?
Its the consistency with which they would eat at least a pound of it a week that caused the problem.
Quite how something thats 50% fat can be sold as a health food is the real puzzle here.
Peanut butter and jelly though
And a baseball bat.
There you go.
And my axe
ITT: people underestimating the density of peanut butter
There is nothing unhealthy about peanut butter (when I say that I mean ground peanuts, not the brands with an insane number of additives), but almost anything in extreme quantities can be toxic. Even water.
The human body is meant for variety. It’s wild that as much as we’ve learned about the absolutely insane importance of the gut microbiome it still comes down to “eat your vegetables”.
There’s always cookie dough as alternative.
It’s my go-to when I run out of peanut butter.
Only the peanut butter or also the peanuts themselves? Because I eat an absurd amount of them to pass time
Oh wow 😯. I do like peanut butter but I didn’t know about the oxalate content. Now I have to research this. I have this new hobby of cyanotype and the newformula by Mike Ware is what I’m using. It contains oxalates. I never touch the stuff as I apply it. But sometimes I stick my fingers into the developing bath without gloves. Hmm. Well now I’m going to wear gloves. But I also want to read the MSDS.
Kinda curious what the sugar/corn syrup content of the peanut butter was.
I think you have to eat it!
He didn’t say if he ate it with jam or chocolate sprinkles. So not sure if he’s American or Dutch.
Nutella(off brand obv, nutella is like €7 a jar where the cheap shit is €3), am Dutch.
Thanks George Washington Carver
eh, I’ve only been eating rice and popcorn for the last 2 days…
