Oxalic acid is a normal part of the metabolic process. Your body literally creates it during digestion. Avoiding all oxalic acid intake is a nutrition myth and is basically impossible anyway. Fruits contain it, vegetables contain it, grains contain it. You eat it constantly. This person was already severely unhealthy if they gave themselves NAFLD and kidney stones. More likely the crap peanut butter OP was eating was full of preservatives and icing sugar and OP is probably chronically dehydrated.
As a gym rat and bicyclist i was having health issues. No drugs or alcohol. Lots of supplements.
I went oxalate free on a zero carb diet for several years and it fixed my auto immune disorder. I lost 30 pounds of muscle in the process because of a loss in appetite. I slowly readded foods into my diet. Turned out that I couldn’t handle salicylates in large amounts. It’s in most plants as well. 3% of the population shares my intolerance. We can’t eat spices or herbs.
All humans have individual variances in our ability to process plant toxins. There’s a reason why some people are more prone to kidney stones than others. It doesn’t mean someone is unhealthy.
There’s always cookie dough as alternative.
It’s my go-to when I run out of peanut butter.
The word “liver” doesn’t appear in the Wikipedia article.
As for oxalates:
Several plant foods such as the root and/or leaves of spinach, rhubarb, and buckwheat are high in oxalic acid and can contribute to the formation of kidney stones in some individuals. Other oxalate-rich plants include fat hen (“lamb’s quarters”), sorrel, and several Oxalis species (also sometimes called sorrels). The root and/or leaves of rhubarb and buckwheat are high in oxalic acid.[14] Other edible plants with significant concentrations of oxalate include, in decreasing order, star fruit (carambola), black pepper, parsley, poppy seed, amaranth, chard, beets, cocoa, chocolate, most nuts, most berries, fishtail palms, New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides), and beans.[citation needed] Leaves of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) contain among the greatest measured concentrations of oxalic acid relative to other plants. However, the drink derived by infusion in hot water typically contains only low to moderate amounts of oxalic acid due to the small mass of leaves used for brewing.[citation needed]
but no mention of peanuts in the main or talk page.
The doctor might be wrong.
The poster might be lying too.
I suspect peanut falls under the “most nuts” part, right after cocoa and chocolate
Peanuts aren’t nuts…
They’re leguuuuuuuuuuuuumes.
That’s truuuuuuuuuuuuue.
yep.
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?
Only the peanut butter or also the peanuts themselves? Because I eat an absurd amount of them to pass time
Good peanut butter is just 100% ground up peanuts, soooo…
But the peanut butter most people eat is not 100% ground-up peanuts.
For example, here’s the nutritional info and ingredients for Skippy:
Hydrogenated vegetable oil is extremely high in linoleic acid. OP should probably be worried about the (probably) low quality food they’re ingesting.
A whole lot of sugar too.
I used to eat up to a pound a day, and now I’m wondering if I did myself permanent damage. Certainly half a pound a day, minimum, for a year. M
What the fuck
Strength training plus an intensely physical job, 200g of peanut butter was an extra 1200kcal and went down very easily at the end of the day. Sometimes I’d be so tired I’d end up eating the rest of the jar as well. I must have eaten my girlfriend’s weight in peanut butter over the course of a year. I’m so tired all the time nowadays I don’t really know how it was possible. Some days would need 7000kal to hit maintenance.
You are good, oxalates eventually gets eliminated over time. And even if it made some damage, liver can heal itself fast. Same for kidney stone, if you have normal nutrition, they dissolve over time.
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.
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!
eh, I’ve only been eating rice and popcorn for the last 2 days…
That stuff tastes so vile, I can’t even handle one spoon. Two pounds? Jesus.
it’s also over the period of a week, so it’s less than you would think.
Uh, that’s close to 150g a day. That’s a massive chunk.
Yo check this out. I know it’s a weird concept and all, but different people like different things.
Theres tons of shit you do that other people from other cultures thinks is absolutely disgusting.
Who cares?
Ibwoukd eat the whole jar in one sitting if i had it around.
I would if I didn’t get extreme heartburn from it lol
Peanut butter and jelly though
And a baseball bat.
There you go.
And my axe
The only reason I knew peanuts could be bad for your kidneys is watching Dr. Glaucomflecken and seeing his sketch of the nephrologist at Halloween. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAghdVqVJUg
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
A pound of peanut butter per week sounds insane but apparently it’s only like 2 cups and I feel like that’s an edible amount. It’s a lot but if I really got a hankering for some PB I could do that. But then after a week I would be over it. I feel bad for this person though that apparently they think eating nothing but PB is healthy. A human body needs a variety of different foods and nutrients and evidently eating nothing but peanut butter isn’t that.
It doesn’t sound like they think it’s healthy, given that they said they eat it in excess and it’s a guilty pleasure.
Was putting less than that per week in my morning weight-gain breakfast shakes. Worked for a couple of months until the kidney stones put an end to that. Could never gain on carbs alone.
Of course not, protein is very literally what gains are made of.
Glycogen also makes up a good amount of muscle mass. But there was more in the shake than just pb and carbs. I had calculated a combination of macros though all those notes are long gone now. A 1500 cal shake over the course of a morning plus what amounts to 3500+ calories per day, all pre planned did not foresee the kidney stones peanut butter and cocoa would produce.
Same thing happens to me; I’ll get a massive craving for peanut butter and easily consume an entire family-sized jar in a week. And just like you I’ll get over it and go months without.
I wonder what causes this? Not enough protein in my diet?
Could just be your body trying to maintain weight and getting a big craving for some thing calorie DENSE
You probably have plenty of protein in your diet. Requirements aren’t that high for it. They’re not a complete protein either but easily become one when paired with stuff most of us eat anyway.
They’re pretty decent for b vitamins and things like copper (which is used for iron absorption).
Long story short you probably just like PB. I mean it’s nice stuff but easy to get sick of.
A pound of peanut butter in a week is nothing; a pound of peanut butter a week, every week, on the other hand…
I remember my grandmother who lived to age 98 told me about an “all-day sucker” - basically fill a spoon in peanut butter, and when it’s done, fill it up again. Repeat all day. Can you tell she lived during the depression?
I didn’t think much of it as a kid. Thought it was a pretty good idea. Then I learned about food sanitation practices, and reconsidered.
when it’s done, fill it up again. Repeat all day.
So every 10 seconds?
In modern fat American terms, sure. But in the Depression? You better make that spoon last at least an hour or two
