Is Your Peanut Butter Carcinogenic?

Slashfood:

Though there's no immediate need to turn your PB&J's into jelly-only sandwiches, there is a chance that peanut butter may contain the carcinogen aflatoxin. The soft and porous shell that encases peanuts can allow fungus with aflatoxin to penetrate into the nut, explains Organic Authority.

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Comments

[ianmcc]

07:18 PM on 05/01/2011

No foul for me as I only eat almond butter.

[rikster]

02:28 PM on 04/29/2011

if the ingredient label of your peanut butter has more than peanuts in it....you might want to put it back on the shelf.

[Grada3784]

09:31 AM on 04/29/2011

Buy a food processor and make your own.

[Grada3784]

09:30 AM on 04/29/2011

Seriously old news.

I worked for a company testing for Aflatoxin back in the 1970's.

100% of people who breath, die. If you want to live, stop breathing.

[DavidMG]

01:09 PM on 04/28/2011

Anrew Weil warned 10 years ago? We warned 40 years ago in "The Supermarket Handbook."
Nikki & David Goldbeck

[BluebirdofUnhappiness]

12:19 AM on 04/28/2011

But it's all-natural cancer so that's fine.

[blurredmolly]

02:53 PM on 04/27/2011

Organic peanut butter is horrible.

[inARCTICulate]

07:14 PM on 04/27/2011

You are addicted to sugar.

[blurredmolly]

06:08 AM on 04/28/2011

that's true.

[inARCTICulate]

07:14 PM on 04/27/2011

Have you tried Smuckers?

[blurredmolly]

07:38 PM on 04/27/2011

kinda oily. and I don't mean Taitz.