Wednesday, 27 April 2011
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A Peanut Butter Precaution
For any of you with natural peanut butter in your cupboard, you might want to go put it in your fridge instead.
Okay, so maybe the precaution is a little extreme since nothing has been officially proven, but some are starting to speculate that peanut butter may sometimes carry the carcinogen aflatoxin, which can cause cancer.
Since peanut shells are pretty soft, it can allow fungus to penetrate through the shell and into the nut. Sometimes this fungus may be carrying aflatoxin. Although it has not been completely proven to cause cancer, it has been shown in developing countries, where nuts and grains are grown out of soil without strict quality regulations, to cause liver cancer.
It is more likely for natural peanut butter to have this because of the fact that it is less processed and has a shorter shelf life. Because it's natural, it is more likely to grow the mold that contains the harmful carcinogen. Hence putting it in your fridge to help prevent mold growth.
I'm not too worried, considering it hasn't been made into a big stink (yet). For more information, check out the original article from Slashfood here.
Are you worried about your peanut butter?
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Comments (21)
Don't they say to keep natural peanut butter in the fridge anyway?
I don't know, I don't buy the stuff, but an ex of mine always kept his in the fridge.I figure so many things can give you cancer that I can't worry about ALL of them Dx
yeah, i don't care. we're all gonna die eventually, i'm not going to spend my life trying to stop every single thing from killing me.
I like peanut butter! give me cancer fuck it I don't care as long as I have my peanut butter
the smoggy air of the city and the big trucks that often farts their exhaust pipe smoke, which sneakily seeps into my car, probably contains more toxins than peanut butter. my lungs aren't as defensive
but my awesome stomach acids will annihilate most of the aflatoxins
Everything gives you cancer and everything will kill you eventually. Surprisingly enough, nobody lives forever. The air you breathe every time you set foot outside your house is more dangerous to your health than most of these things combined. How about we stop worrying about petty dangers like peanut butter, and start focusing on the fact that we're slowly but surely destroying the planet?
Allergic to nuts.
idgaf. :)
Everything causes cancer, surprise surprise.
@fields_of_sunflowers@xanga -
The planet's gonna die anyway, how about we stop worrying about petty dangers we cause it?
Wow, people get super-defensive when it's suggested they keep their peanut butter in the fridge.
I can possibly avoid a certain type of cancer by putting peanut butter in the fridge instead? Well, fuck it. The world is gonna end and I kinda hate my life anyway. Wouldn't want to try prolonging it through the most minor of inconveniences. Next you're going to tell me to keep my uncooked meat in the freezer. Shit, then I gotta thaw it! I don't have time for that! I got a job, loser. It's grab and go.
I didn't click the link, but this post makes it sound like the danger is in eating moldy peanut butter. While I'm not gonna make fun other people's tastes, I seriously don't know anyone who eats MPB&J sandwiches.
Might as well keep peanut butter in the fridge (at least until this issue gets sorted out). Can't hurt.
@lifeonacitybusem4@xanga - my point is, you'd have to eat a LOT of all these products that people claim "give you cancer" for it to make any impact on your health whatsoever. Seeing as most people don't live on a diet of peanut butter, why worry about it? Everything in moderation is what's key here.
1. I use Jif.
2. I'm not going to worry about it either way.
3. Isn't "Cancer Causing Carcinogens" redundant?
4. Why the fuck is everything double spacing? WTF?
Beauty products can increase your chances of breast cancer but you don't see girls throwing their lotions and powder away, now do you?
LOL at "cancer causing carcinogens"
redundant title
I always use natural peanut butter and I always keep it in the fridge.
I'm not too worried because I'd be more worried about whatever goes into the processing of unnatural peanut butter, frankly.
wait, a carcinogen that causes cancer??? NOOOO! everything causes cancer these days... even carcinogens...
Of course it does. Everything is going to kill you. I thought we'd all learned that by now?
@too_pretty_to_die@xanga - Agreed
Let's just face it...everything the human race has made since the dawn of time is carcinogenic.
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terrible diarrhea, that's hard, now I know that I shouldn't do that.