Are peanuts a safe keto food??
Anicamarais
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Peanuts, are they a safe food for the keto diet. They contain sugar.. any pointers?
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In my opinion, no, because they aren't really a nut. They're a legume.2
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In addition to what Shadow said, they're also very inflammatory. I avoid them.1
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Agreed with Phrick and Shadow. I do on the rare occasion eat peanuts and more often than that I eat peanut butter, but I always consider myself to be eating "off plan" when that happens. Peanuts/peanut butter are/is a slippery slope - I find PB highly addictive and it makes me feel like crap afterwards. Eating a spoonful makes me feel as bad as gorging on cake used to and I find it really hard to break the cycle. Its just not worth it. Plus, I find it spikes my blood glucose, which definitely doesn't work for me.
Peanuts are probably better used as a treat or special occasion food, if you can control yourself around them lol.1 -
I, personally, eat them. It does take some strength to not just mindlessly munch on them, though.1
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I eat them sometimes. Lots of things contain sugar. The goal isn't to avoid everything that contains "some sugar". It's to avoid added sugar and things with a lot of sugar.
It's more about how much you're going to get per serving that the fact that you got any sugar at all.
I've got peanut butter in the cabinet that is 3g sugar per 2 tablespoons. That's almost a whole teaspoon of sugar. It is a sugar added peanut butter that my hubs bought cuz he's not a label reader. Anyway, while I would never purchase that peanut butter on purpose, it wouldn't affect my state of ketosis to have 2 tablespoons assuming I'm not also eating other carbs with it too. It's still only 3 grams. And if I were particularly concerned but really wanted some I could always just have only 1 tablespoon instead.
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4 net carbs per oz. & yummy.... can't not eat......
My peanut rule - Eat only as much as you can stuff in your mouth in 5 seconds, with one hand tied down.
Mmmm....7 -
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I eat them generally if I miss lunch and don't feel like fasting. You just really have to be careful because you can a big surprise logging your food.
I had no idea about the legume part... I feel dumb for not knowing that.0 -
I eat 2/3 cups of peanuts a day plus 1.5 1/3 cup of dry roasted nuts per day...while I dont' measure ketone levels they don't stop me from losing 3+lbs a week in my first month
..so my answer is yes, they're safe. 1 -
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Lol... I don't keep them in the house. I actually have really small hands. But I can grab a lot more, and chew a lot more than 1oz with one hand.1 -
I love peanuts - probably too much. I buy the big cans from Sam's. That said, I have gotten much better at only eating a serving (1 oz) at a time. In that quantity, I think they are safe. I can do that and still keep below 30 g carbs a day.
What you have to be careful of is the mindless munching since 1 oz is not many (package says 34 pieces). In the old days, I would just eat straight out of the can and could easily put away 8-10 servings before I realized it. They remind me of that old Lay's commercial where it says, "You can't eat just one."0 -
I don't eat red meat, chicken, basically anything that can run away from me. For this reason, nuts, peanuts and peanut butter are a big part of my keto diet and it works just fine. In fact, I utterly rely upon those foods to help fill me up and especially when I don't have time to cook. Everyone else is right: it's very easy to over eat peanuts / peanut butter, but from a keto perspective, it's fine, in my experience. It's just too easy to over eat them and take in too many total calories. If you do that, you won't lose weight even if you are keto. On the other hand, I have found that I can over eat peanuts, peanut butter, any other kind of nut and not GAIN weight as long as I stay low carb for my total carbs in a day. Hope that helps! Enjoy peanuts!1
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I eat peanuts. Often too many peanuts. @cstehansen I previously bought those big cans of Planters Virginia Peanuts (big and crunchy) at Sam's and recently switched to the 5 pound bag of Unshelled Salted Roasted Hampton Farms. I eat fewer peanuts now but still too many. Only downside it peanut skins and pieces of shells all over my kitchen floor=daily sweeping.1
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I eat peanuts. Often too many peanuts. @cstehansen I previously bought those big cans of Planters Virginia Peanuts (big and crunchy) at Sam's and recently switched to the 5 pound bag of Unshelled Salted Roasted Hampton Farms. I eat fewer peanuts now but still too many. Only downside it peanut skins and pieces of shells all over my kitchen floor=daily sweeping.
Salted in the shell. Eat the shells. Problem solved.1 -
frankiesgirl21 wrote: »I eat peanuts. Often too many peanuts. @cstehansen I previously bought those big cans of Planters Virginia Peanuts (big and crunchy) at Sam's and recently switched to the 5 pound bag of Unshelled Salted Roasted Hampton Farms. I eat fewer peanuts now but still too many. Only downside it peanut skins and pieces of shells all over my kitchen floor=daily sweeping.
Salted in the shell. Eat the shells. Problem solved.
LOL. I hear shrimp shells are excellent also.1 -
I avoid peanuts because they can/do contain micro toxins. Instead I grab raw, organic cashews and almonds. Though I've tried switching to Brazil nuts because I find it much easier to only eat 2 of them then to eat a 1/4 cup of cashews. Cashews are addicting....hahaha
Some interesting articles:
http://superhumancoach.com/pros-and-cons-of-organic-peanut-butter/
http://superhumancoach.com/negative-effects-of-roasted-seeds-and-nuts/
http://superhumancoach.com/negative-effects-of-canned-vegetables/0 -
Peanut butter chocolate fat bombs. Peanuts must be allowed.
They are higher in carbs than tree nuts though. For munching, I choose macadamia nuts. Yum.1 -
I, personally, eat peanuts, macadamias, almonds & walnuts. Just watch your quantity.0
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Almonds are my go-to!!1
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Guilty pleasure... I stopped at a local liquor store for some wine for dinner and they had warm roasted peanuts. Yeah, I bought them!2
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I think your orig question was are the "keto safe" in tha regard any food is as long as you stay beneath 20 or 25g carb per day. I eat peAnuts regularly. Filling. Tasty. On a net basis not bad. I also eat about 1tbsp of pb most days.1
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I eat them occasionally too but only if I have to work to shell them our I'd eat my weight in them. Sunflower seeds too1
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Peanut butter is a drug to me. If you look at my diary today, you can see that's the only thing I ate for breakfast. Lol. I know it's a problem, I don't have the same crazy rush with almond butter and so we don't buy peanut butter. I do have powdered PB, however the carb count is microscopic and I have to work more with it to have something to enjoy.1
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IIFYM = If it fits your macros! I do enjoy and allow myself to have peanut butter, even flavored peanut butters; however, I'm not a huge PB lover and I prefer PB over plain peanuts any day. In fact, I don't usually care for peanuts just as as straight nuts (legumes) by themselves at all so if given a choice I will always choose PB.0
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I eat PB and peanuts at times. I'm also an IIFYM person within keto/LCHF and haven't noticed any problems. Right now I have a batch of almond butter I made recently so I've been eating that instead. I do really like almond butter but sometimes when the grocery budget's tight I go for peanuts/PB instead. (I'm also limited in terms of nuts I keep in the house since one of my sons is allergic to most tree nuts. Peanuts and almonds are the main ones we can have around.)0
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I love peanuts but save them as a treat. I bag up 2 oz when I go to the movies. Then I sneak in my bottled water in my "big" purse so $5.00 Tuesdays only costs me $5 rather than pay them almost another $5 for one of THEIR bottled waters. So I have my movie snack, feels like a treat and it fits my budget!
I also eat almonds and brazil nuts. I gave up pecans since they gave me heartburn. I tried a macadamia nut for the first time the other night and it wasn't bad. Kinda tastes like a brazil nut but a funky aftertaste.0 -
Speaking of macros: I am logging my food this month (not very common for me) and I logged 20 whole peanuts using an entry that said "whole foods roasted whole peanuts". I went on with my day. I looked at my diary later and saw this enormous carb count, so did some exploring. AHA whoever entered the peanuts made a "small" boo boo. 20 whole peanuts, according to that entry, had 26 grams of carbs.
Needless to say, I found another entry, ha. 
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I've been buying the Planters "Nut-rition" mixed nuts, 1.5 ounces per package, 9 GR protein, 4 GR net carbs. That they're in individual packages is a plus. I can always open another package but that at least requires a conscious decision on my part. Those gigantamundo buckets of mixed nuts from Costco might as well be laced with heroin as far as my ability to limit serving size is concerned.2
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mandycat223 wrote: »I've been buying the Planters "Nut-rition" mixed nuts, 1.5 ounces per package, 9 GR protein, 4 GR net carbs. That they're in individual packages is a plus. I can always open another package but that at least requires a conscious decision on my part. Those gigantamundo buckets of mixed nuts from Costco might as well be laced with heroin as far as my ability to limit serving size is concerned.
Heh. Hubs buys those. He throws a handful in his lunch salad. I look at that and want to crawl in.2
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