Is penut butter safe?

[Jun]

Now reading the China Study, which is about nutrition and the significance of plant-based diet, I was a bit surprised to see the fact that peanut butter is not safe to consume due to its risk of containing aflatoxin.

 

Anyone has considered about the same or the similar?

 

Please help me, peanut butter is a good affordable tasty one for this bloke guy!

[Im Your Man]

I love peanut butter too But I try to avoid it or not to eat too much of it. Not really for the aflatoxin but because peanuts are very acidic to the body, more than any other nuts ( it is healthier to have a more alkaline diet), eventhough it's not really a nut:

In the botanical sense the fruit of the peanut plant is a woody, indehiscent legume and not a nut. The word pea describes the edible seeds of many other legumes in the Fabaceae family, and in that sense, a peanut is a kind of pea.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut

 

Peanuts may be contaminated with the mold Aspergillus flavus which produces a carcinogenic substance called aflatoxin. While this substance quickly causes liver cancer in rats, humans are far more resistant.[citation needed] Lower quality specimens, particularly where mold is evident, are more likely to be contaminated.[27]

[Zack]

Peanuts are regulated by the fda, most of it will have a very low aflatoxin content.

[chrisjs]

Peanuts are regulated by the fda, most of it will have a very low aflatoxin content.

Low salmonella content as well.

[cubby2112]

One other thing you have to keep in mind about aflatoxin and the China Study, is that the mice fed a plant-based diet did not develop cancers no matter how much aflatoxin was pumped into them.