short- and long-term health. These dangerous
proteins violate our third and fourth Good
Food standards—which means that peanuts
and peanut butter are banished from your
plate. (We suspect that the resilience of
peanut lectin is partly responsible for the
rapidly growing incidence of peanut
allergies.)
PB & J?
Most folks don’t fight us tooth
and nail to keep lima beans in
their diet, but peanut butter is
often a different story. For those
of you who love the creamy (or
chunky) stuff, don’t panic—
we’ve got a substitute. Sunflower
seed butter is so similar to peanut
butter that your kids probably
won’t know the difference, and
sunflower seeds don’t contain the