Re: Health Benefits Help Peanuts Shed Stigma


Don Kirkman wrote:
> It seems to me I heard somewhere that elgoog wrote in article
> <1112595733.859404.303970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >montygram wrote:
> >> I have no idea what that guy is talking about when he says people
are
> >> worshipping food, but regarding the article in question:
>
> >> Peanuts are legumes, yet the author intimates that they are nuts.
> >The
>
> >And tomato is a fruit, and the cacao bean is neither a bean or a
> >legume.
>
> But the nutritional difference between nuts and legumes may be
> significant; it doesn't matter how we classify a tomato, because
we're
> not comparing it other fruits nutritionally. :-)

I guess I missed the comparison of nuts to legumes. He pretty much just
said that peanuts are legumes, and really made no comparison to nuts.

Anyway, when looking at the reported hazhard I don't think it matters
so much as to how a peanut is classified, but rather as to how much
peanut oil was consumed.

If you got something different, please help me to understand.

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