A delectable assortment of vegetables interspersed in the finest rice noodles. The noodles are coated with a heaping spoon of 100% peanuts peanut butter, a giant glug of soy sauce and a sprinkling of my favorite hot paste.

  • Io Sapsai 🌱@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    What is the concept behind “oil free”? Peanut butter is quite fatty and also has unsaturated fat. Is it avoiding vegetable oils? I’m genuinely curious. I thought it was avoiding fat altogether.

    • Arcanepotato@lemmy.worldOPM
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      7 months ago

      It’s no refined oils, but yes in general the idea is low fat too. Refined oils are just empty calories. A serving of 2 tbsp of this peanut butter would have 3 g fibre, 8 g protein, 2% of my daily calcium and 6% of my daily iron. Peanut oil would have none of that.

      This was the only thing I managed to eat yesterday, so I’m not all that worried about the fat.

      This is the website of one of the more famous proponents of a whole food plant based no oil diet: https://nutritionfacts.org/ Like I said in another comment, I’m not a strict adherent but I don’t keep refined oil in the house and I try to make choices that align with it when I can muster enough fucks.