Are you as obsessed with peanut sauce as we are? It’s one of our favorite sauces to put on almost everything. Peanut sauce goes great with Buddha bowls, stir-fried noodles, or as a dipping sauce for rice wraps or raw veggies. It is truly one of the best sauces/condiments you can have in your kitchen, only if you are not cleansing. Once you finish your cleanse, though, feel free to start serving this with every dish you make.

Aside from the addictive flavor, the best thing about this peanut sauce is how easy it is to make. In fact, we feel silly even explaining how to make it. You can prepare it one of two ways: blend the ingredients together in a blender, or whisk the ingredients together in a bowl. That’s pretty much it. If you blend the ingredients, your sauce will be smoother and creamier, whereas whisking the sauce in a bowl will yield a slightly chunky consistency. No matter which preparation method you choose, the sauce is just as delicious.

Now, the most important ingredient in this sauce is the peanut butter. Don’t just grab any peanut butter from the store. Take your time and invest in this sauce by choosing a high-quality peanut butter with minimal ingredients. You don’t need added sugars, extra sodium, preservatives, or anything of the like. Lastly, don’t buy chunky peanut butter because you want this sauce to be as smooth as possible.

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Varying your dressings is integral to enjoying salads. Because peanuts are rough on the digestive system, we replaced them with raw sunflower butter, so you still get that classic creaminess associated with Thai peanut sauces.

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When you are cleansing, salads become a big part of your diet. Salads are a great way to get a lot of nutrients in one meal, but you can start to lose interest in them if you continually use the same salad dressing. It’s important for people, who are doing our cleanses, to know that they can make other dressings besides the recommended apple cider vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, and lemon juice dressing.

Most people are used to eating a lot of flavors that we do not allow you to eat while cleansing. The truth of the matter is that you can use a lot of spices and other foods to make salad dressings that are essentially healthier versions of your favorite dressings. This allows you to expand your horizons on food, which can help you make healthier choices once you finish cleansing. Most store bought dressings contain excess fat, sodium, and sugar, and those three evils can lead to weight gain.

You don’t have to go out and buy salad dressings, which are filled with dyes, preservatives, and processed ingredients. You can buy fresh ingredients to make your own dressings, which are much healthier for you. In addition to changing salad dressings, it’s important to change up your salad ingredients, but we’ll leave that for another article. Eat the rainbow, i.e. eat vegetables of all shapes and colors. Try the following salad dressings and let us know how you liked them.

#1: Mango Cilantro Dressing

This is salad dressing has the best components of the flavor world. You get the acidity from the lime, sweetness from the mango, and a subtle fiery kick from the jalapeño.

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#2: Raw Ranch Dressing

We just turned an unhealthy dressing into a cleanse-approved dressing you can drizzle on your next salad. You may have to tinker with the seasonings to get the desired flavor you want, but it’s pretty darn delicious!

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#3: Homemade Raw Vegan Italian Dressing

This dressing goes on almost any salad. The featured ingredient is parsley, which is rich in powerful flavonoids and antioxidants that may help to fight cancer cell formation.

Click here to make the recipe.

#4: Lemon Ginger Dressing

This dressing takes absolutely no time to make. All you have to do is blend the ingredients and drizzle the dressing on your salad.

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#5: Dairy-Free, Nut-Free Thai-Inspired Dressing

This dressing is intended to remind you of a Thai peanut sauce. Because peanuts are rough on the digestive system, we replaced them with raw sunflower butter, so you still get that classic creaminess associated with Thai peanut sauces.

Click here to make the recipe.

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Stir-fries are fun to make because anything goes. You can combine almost any vegetables with any sauces, but we prefer going with Asian flavors, like the peanut sauce in this recipe. If you don’t make your own peanut sauce and use a store bought variety, make sure that the sodium is relatively low. You’d be surprised how much sodium is in a typical sauce like that.

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Peanut butter, as we know it today, was invented by Dr. Ambrose Straub of St. Louis, Missouri. He made it for elderly patients who could not chew so well but still needed hi-protein food that didn’t involve meat. Dr. Straub went on to patent a peanut grinding mill in 1903 and one year later peanut butter was introduced to the public in the United States at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

Today, peanut butter must be at least 90% peanuts to use the term “peanut butter.” More than 50% of the peanut crop in the United States is used for peanut butter production.

Health Benefits

Peanuts are rich in energy and contain many nutrients, antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins that are very beneficial for your health. They contain mono-unsaturated fatty acids that help to lower “bad cholesterol” and increase “good cholesterol”. A diet that is rich in monounsaturated fats helps prevent coronary artery disease and stokes.

Peanuts are also a great source of protein. They contain quality amino acids that aid in the growth and development of muscles. These nuts also consist of healthy minerals such as copper, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, and zinc.

High in vitamin E, peanuts contain about 8g per 100g of nuts. Vitamin E helps strengthen the cell membrane of the mucus membranes and skin by protecting our bodies from harmful oxygen free radicals. Peanuts also contain B-vitamins that promote brain health and blood flow to the brain.

Resveratrol is an antioxidant that is found in peanuts and helps protect the body against cancers, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and viral infections.

A handful of peanuts provides the recommended amount of phenolic anti-oxidants, protein, minerals, and vitamins.

Health Risks of Peanuts

The peanut, of all nuts, is very hard on the digestive system.

Peanuts, if not masticated well, can lodge in the intestines and contribute to diverticulitis and diverticulosis. So if you eat peanuts or will continue to eat them, make sure to chew them well.

Roasted peanuts contain excessive amounts of salt and can cause headaches as a result.

One of the worst oils to consume or use for cooking is peanut oil. However, peanut oil is far better or salubrious than cottonseed, canola, and soybean oil.

Health Risks of Peanut Butter

Aflotoxin – a known cardinogen – is found in virtually all peanut butter brands on the market.

“A study was performed by Consumers Union showed that the major brands such as Jif, Peter Pan, and Skippy had less of the aflotoxin than store brands. The biggest offender turned out to be the freshly ground peanut butter in health food stores, which had ten times the levels of the major brands. The U.S. government allows no more than 20 parts per billion (ppb) of aflotoxin, which members of the health field feel is too high. According to Consumers Union, eating levels that contain an average of 2 ppb of aflotoxin every 10 days will result in a cancer risk of 7 in a million. This is a higher risk that exists from most pesticides in foods.” – Dr. Myles H. Bader

Peanut butter also contains hydrogenated oil. The process of hydrogenation keeps the oil in suspension. Hydrogenation made peanut butter one of America’s most popular foods. However, hydrogenation plays a role in the development of major diseases that impair overall health and wellbeing.

Peanut sauce is a favorite product in Asian culture. Thai restaurants use peanut sauce to top some of their dishes and also use it as a salad dressing. Peanut sauces are very sweet due to the use of white table sugar. If you eat peanut sauce just a few times a year, there’s really no major cause for concern.

Healthier Alternatives

Today, we have a variety of exceptional peanut butter substitutes on the market that can be found at most good health food stores. Alternative and healthier butters include:

• hemp seed butter
• almond butter
• hazelnut butter
• pistachio butter
• walnut butter, and
• cashew butter

You can even make these alternative butters at home by simply soaking your choice of seeds or nuts overnight and then blending it in a mixer.

Hemp seed butter by far would have to be the best alternative butter on the market that you could consume. It is a great source of amino acids (for purposes of protein), contains all 3 beneficial essential fatty acids (Omega 3, Omega 6, and Omega 9), and contains moderate amounts of minerals and trace elements. It has a great taste as well.

Almond butter is also a great tasting butter, as well as cashew butter. These butters are great for sandwiches, for crackers, and vegetable sticks. Also, they are not hard on the digestive system like peanuts.

Beanut butter is not a better substitute for peanut butter. Beanut butter is really soybean butter. Soy, too, is hard on the digestive tract and that’s why it should only be eaten on rare occasions.

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There are a few major alternative butter manufacturing companies listed in our Alternative Diet and Lifestyle Manual Alternative Diet and Lifestyle Manual (ebook)l (under “Alternative Food Brands”).

Thank you for reading!

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