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PEANUT BUTTER AND CALORIES?

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  • jha1223
    jha1223 Posts: 141 Member
    No.

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    Never heard that BUT, there's this stuff, called PB2. Now, its real peanut butter, just not with the oil in it, so its like a powder. You add water to your "powder" and voila, peanut butter!!!! Now, I love my Peter Pan, but I gotta tell ya, this stuff tastes really really good, you wont miss the calories, promise!

    I think it's gross and tastes like peanut butter flavored dirt.
    it's butt-tastic by itself.
    I've had okay luck with it as noted before, mixed in jelly directly, or added into protein shakes, but there is absolutely no way that it's a viable substitute for real peanut butter.
  • jha1223
    jha1223 Posts: 141 Member
    Never heard that BUT, there's this stuff, called PB2. Now, its real peanut butter, just not with the oil in it, so its like a powder. You add water to your "powder" and voila, peanut butter!!!! Now, I love my Peter Pan, but I gotta tell ya, this stuff tastes really really good, you wont miss the calories, promise!

    I think it's gross and tastes like peanut butter flavored dirt.

    Yep. Give me good old Jif.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    Yep. Give me good old Jif.
    My thing lately has been PB&J's with Jalapeno jam. Awesome!
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,423 Member
    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.
  • SheriKCourtney
    SheriKCourtney Posts: 77
    Ditto!! I love Peanut Butter too!
  • SheriKCourtney
    SheriKCourtney Posts: 77
    PB2 may not be be the best but it is really good in protein shakes or smoothies.
  • kelly_e_montana
    kelly_e_montana Posts: 1,999 Member
    Wouldn't you lose the heart benefits of the peanut butter by removing the good fat that lowers triglycerides (like what they do to make PB2)?

    Wouldn't a lot of people just be spending the calories later on a Skinny Cow or something? I guess I'm just saying don't overlook the nutritional boost of real peanut butter.
  • Viva_Karina
    Viva_Karina Posts: 398 Member
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  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    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.
  • amberlynnsinspired
    amberlynnsinspired Posts: 438 Member
    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: 10,423 Member
    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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