American kids love their peanut-butter sandwiches. They just love it. But growing number of kids can’t touch that stuff because of peanut allergy. The allergy can be just nearly recognizable or can also be really life threatening. And there are some individuals who don’t like the taste of peanut or peanut butter. So, is there any alternative?

Yes! How about considering almond products? To those who are really health and environmentally conscious organic almond butter is the product to vote for.

Why would you prefer organic almond butter over regular one? The answer is simple. Organic food products contain no chemicals, artificial colors, sweeteners or preservatives. Those all ingredients can make you and your nut butter loving kids sick and if you are allergic to preservatives, really sick. Also the real organic almond butter won’t include any salt or sugar. It will be made of organically grown raw almonds.

There are two schools about how to do organic almond butter; either you make it from dry roasted almonds or from raw almonds. Which one is the correct one depends really on the taste of those like to consume it. The latest trends tends towards raw almonds although the opponents dispute that raw almonds might be not so healthy as first thought due to salmonella and the Almond Board of California tries to regulate the organic almond industry with some imposed pasteurization procedures.

To make almond butter the almonds are freshly grinded two or three times to keep their temperature as cool as possible because intensive and continuous grinding raises it. Also keeping it low helps to maintain the almonds to stay raw and preserve their flavor, nutrients and enzymes. To preserve the health ingredients in almond butter some companies, such as Living Tree, stopped grinding altogether and they slice it in batches and very slowly through many days. Then the almond butter is refrigerated to keep it fresh.

Nutritional Information

Organic almond butter taste great. But what is making it a really fabulous consumption product are the health benefits. This butter is reach in proteins and can substitute meat for vegetarians or for people who for health reasons can’t consume a lot of meat. Also in meat you can find saturated fats, which can are one of the main reasons for coronary deceases. On those grounds almond butter is an excellent source of unsaturated fat acids that not only help to prevent heart decease but also can help to fight the existing one, too by reducing the “bad” cholesterol levels.

Organic almond butter is a very good source of Vitamin E (known as youth vitamin) as it is famous for general immune system boost. Here again, consuming Vitamin E helps in fighting heart disease. Another nutrient found in almond butter and helping in fighting cardiovascular disease is Linoleic acid. This nutrient is also very important to human body because it is one of the nutrients human bodies can’t produce it and therefore Linoleic acid must be taken with either supplements or food. This acid is a core component of maintaining cell membranes and manages the metabolism on the cellular level.

In many ways almond butter is superior to peanut butter. Although organic almond butter can be delicious and creamy, the people who suffer from peanut allergy must be careful and read the labels as some of the almond butters are made on the same machinery as peanuts and the severe allergy cases can’t even come with contact with peanut and the label on the jar will tell if there is potential peanut allergy danger.

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