Why is the healthiest food in the world for runners (peanuts) so expensive?

the430miler wrote:

I have long said that peanuts are the best thing in the world for runners to eat for numerous reason. Protein, vitamins, carbs, low fat, nutritious,light weight, easy to digest, #1 on food pyramid.

Can anyone with an agricultural economics background explain why peanuts are so expensive? 10 bucks for a small can of cashews.

Fb- barrett redskin love dahl

The only thing I really used to gain weight was peanuts. Once I stopped eating them I went from 270 to now 210.

I found out later on that peanuts since they are grown in the ground have aflotoxins in them which cause inflammation in the body.

Pajac wrote:

Kvothe wrote:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1541-4337.12383

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Don't waste your time. YMMV doesn't do facts.

This "research"/propaganda is funded by the same food system that has made billions obese with low saturated fat/high carb dietary recommendations while fueling trillions in sales of obesigenic, low nutrition fake foods. Eat their crap recommendations and reap their crap results as everyone else does.

YMMV wrote:

Pajac wrote:

Don't waste your time. YMMV doesn't do facts.

This "research"/propaganda is funded by the same food system that has made billions obese with low saturated fat/high carb dietary recommendations while fueling trillions in sales of obesigenic, low nutrition fake foods. Eat their crap recommendations and reap their crap results as everyone else does.

It's true. The meat industry, nor the health food industry have zero money behind them. They cannot compete with traditional bought-and-paid-for medical doctors and dieticians.

They must sit idly by and watch as the life-changing benefits of their products are IGNORED by BIG PEANUT. They have no voice, no money, no following.

Or is it that meat-hawking 'nutritionists' are just too ethical to engage in the kind of grey-area (if not deceptive) advertising that has made other foods appear 'healthy.'

How dumb do you have to be to believe this junk?

Why are peanuts so expensive? Because they're cashews, not peanuts. 16 oz jar of peanut butter is about $2 at walmart, hardly expensive by anyone's standards. Peanuts are a staple food crop in some of the most impoverished areas of the world.

give it up dude. You've been wrong about every single time you've stated something as fact. Runners to not have higher blood pressure. That's trash.

Cashews and peanuts are both trash as a staple food, but peanuts are obviously better, very decent as pb2 added to shakes.

PUFAs, oxalate, mold, trypsin inhibitors, and one other thing in them that inhibits mineral absorption.

Hardloper wrote:

the430miler wrote:

Bullcrap. I'm pretty wealthy and they one if the most expensive things at a grocery store. Look at whole foods market, which doesnt even exist in poor parts of our cities. That store is loaded with high dollar nuts.

I will agree that some nuts have a lil bit if trans fat due to the oil on them.

Michelle Obama banned trans fats via executive order in 2015 so it shouldn't have any trans fats in them. Nothing wrong with some oil.

false. firstly... michelle obama cannot issue executive order. second, companies found loops holes around the order (mostly because it was delayed), till dear donald trump came in reversing many obama era regulations.

Ultra or Die wrote:

the430miler wrote:

Sesame seeds have too much sodium and are too much labor and work to get out of the shell. Most runners have high blood pressure (which is why I measure my runners blood pressure between intervals) and we dont need any sodium in our diet.

give it up dude. You've been wrong about every single time you've stated something as fact. Runners to not have higher blood pressure. That's trash.

He knows that! He's a troll! You're not winning an argument.

It's so incredible how he does it. By littering his posts with obvious falsehoods and stating opinions as as matters of fact, we have 3 pages of arguing about whether peanuts are healthy or not.

Harambe wrote:

It's true. The meat industry, nor the health food industry have zero money behind them. They cannot compete with traditional bought-and-paid-for medical doctors and dieticians.

Not sure if serious. The meat industry is one of the best funded industries with the most powerful lobbyists out there.

the430miler wrote:

I have long said that peanuts are the best thing in the world for runners to eat for numerous reason. Protein, vitamins, carbs, low fat, nutritious,light weight, easy to digest, #1 on food pyramid.

Can anyone with an agricultural economics background explain why peanuts are so expensive? 10 bucks for a small can of cashews.

Fb- barrett redskin love dahl

A cashew is not a nut, it is a fruit.

All nuts are fruits.

Peanuts are fattening. Eat almonds instead. Less peanuts.

the430miler wrote:

Can anyone with an agricultural economics background explain why peanuts are so expensive? 10 bucks for a small can of cashews.

Peanuts are not cashews. Are you a troll, or a fool, or just posting drunk or high?

There should be a warning label on some of these inane LRC threads:

"BEWARE: Reading this thread may rot your brain."

Leaving now to look for some mental floss.

high school xc coach wrote:

peanuts are not expensive. cashews are expensive because ONE cashew grows in a shell from the bottom of an apple or pear shaped fruit. It is quite a process to turn a bushel of cashews into a small can of edible cashews.

https://balconygardenweb-lhnfx0beomqvnhspx.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cashew-nut-growing_mini.jpg

Look at the face on that cashew! So angry. And you people wonder why they’re so hard to harvest.

I have long said that peanuts are the best thing in the world for runners to eat for numerous reason. Protein, vitamins, carbs, low fat, nutritious,light weight, easy to digest, #1 on food pyramid.

seattle prattle wrote:

Your best bet, if you can afford it, is to eat a variety of nuts and legumes (in that the peanut is a legume, not a nut, as another poster correctly noted).

Peanuts are inexpensive relative to nuts, and have a lot of good nutrients. Sesame Seeds i find are another low cost, nutritious alternative.

Almonds are particularly high in antioxidants.

Pumkin seeds kick your magnesium levels into high gear, important for athletes and runners.

A single brazil nut gets you all the selenium you need in a day per RDA recoomended levels

Walnuts are big in the omega-3 category.

And given that they take almost forever to spoil, keeping a variety around is not so hard.

But peanuts are good. And i am among those who bulk up at Costco on this and the others mentioned above.

Yeah really hate it when I don't get enough selenium in my diet. (I have no idea what selenium is).

George Washington Carver was right wrote:

Harambe wrote:

It's true. The meat industry, nor the health food industry have zero money behind them. They cannot compete with traditional bought-and-paid-for medical doctors and dieticians.

Not sure if serious. The meat industry is one of the best funded industries with the most powerful lobbyists out there.

~3 million meat v. 3+ Billion plant-based processed food. Over a billion for fake meat alone. Not even close.

No profit in meat. Plant products are "scalable" i.e. can be used to synthesize endless overpriced, low-nutrition crap.

YMMV wrote:

George Washington Carver was right wrote:

Not sure if serious. The meat industry is one of the best funded industries with the most powerful lobbyists out there.

~3 million meat v. 3+ Billion plant-based processed food. Over a billion for fake meat alone. Not even close.

No profit in meat. Plant products are "scalable" i.e. can be used to synthesize endless overpriced, low-nutrition crap.

And yet you were vegetarian for decades.

You are just a fad follower :)

Now tell us again how at 64 you are stronger and healthier than ever, despite the complete lack of evidence to prove those claims.

i agree with you 100%