Peanuts

certainly, but you could say the same about any nutrient or foodstuff eaten in massive excess of daily requirements - the keyword being 'excess'.

i.e. apples are awesome nutritionally but eat 1000g of carbs from apples when you sit on your arse all day, and you'll get fat from them, but that doesn't mean apples are bad for you.

they are just calories.

They dont bite.

Agreed Joni...how else are you gonna have enough energy to train hard without eating plenty of calories?!

i eat alot of pistachios and cashew nuts. Pistachios are ok but a pain in the arse de-shelling em, and a fortune if you buy em already de-shelled. Cashews are really high in calorie and protein but also fat, not that it bothers me

I thought this was a thread about the side effects of special protiens

I prefer it when my missus grabs them for me...still, nowt wrong with a bit of DIY now and then.

Sorry to spoil your party but the 25-26% protein by weight of peanuts proudly displayed on the labels is misleading. The protien content is correct but it is defficient in some essential amino acids which reduces the effective available protein for constructing human muscle. The Protein Digestibility Corrected Ammin Acid Score (PDCAAS) measurement method used worldwide to correctly assess a food protien is 52% for peanuts as opposed to 100% for eggs for example. Hence peanuts on thier own only have a bialogically balanced 13.5% of protien by weight. Eating them with grains (wholemeal bread) improves this considerably, but in isolation the story is not that good.

So Peanut Butter on Wholemeal Toast Then, Winner

Ya get fat from insulin spikes caused by high GI carbs if ya ate 200g of protein from nuts you wouldn't get fat unless you ate lots of carbs aswell.

If you just ate nuts you would go into keto and proberly lose bodyfat!!!! but who wants to eat just nuts!!!!!!


GET SOME NUTS *throws snickers*

Nice addition to a balanced diet then eh!

That would be true and valid if you only ate peanuts and didnt alraedy have stomach full of nutrients. Your body doesnt use the protein from peanuts in isolation.

Wash any meal down with a glass of milk for the win.

That's a handy tip, thanks. I might put that into practice. I'm not too hot on the diet side of things. People don't understand where my strength comes from when I live on stuff like tomato soup!!

To be fair, I was kind of being sarcastic, although I do wash every meal down with milk, mostly because I love milk. BUT if you are going to place importance on the amino acid profile of various proteins then milk will do the trick as a top up.

Personally I just eat what I like.

gutted, i luv nuts, n i use to munch them with a smile on my face thinking it was the best of both worlds haha. maybe i should just eat twice as much lol

of course, now to get 200g from mixed nuts for e.g you will have to eat around 1.4kgs of nuts, which will contain around 800g fat, which in itself is over 7k kcals, the protien another 800kcals

But you won't get fat without high GI carbs