PEANUT BUTTER AND CALORIES?

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  • amberlynnsinspired
    amberlynnsinspired Posts: 438 Member
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    I have never heard of that before and I highly believe it is true.
  • Candi_land
    Candi_land Posts: 1,311 Member
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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,021 Member
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    I have heard that when you eat peanut butter, your stomach has to work hard to digest it, therefore you burn a large amount of calories. Is this true?
    If anything whole nuts would be harder to digest and some calories/material and fat would pass through stool.. Peanut butter would have higher physiologic energy basically.
    Peanut butter is mostly fat, and fat has the lowest TEF of all macronutrients - around 2% IIRC. The protein component gives a little bump in TEF, but I certainly wouldn't go anywhere near calling peanut butter a thermogenic enhancer or anything of the sort.
    No I wasn't. I was saying more calories would be available when compared to whole nuts because of the efficacy of digestion. Seeds are a better example.

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