Todd,
that's fair enough. D'Adamo's page lists peanut as a legume lectin, and
legumes are fairly non-Paleo. According to Cordain, peanut lectin is the
only one to have been found in peripheral blood- a claim that shocked me,
but I haven't had a chance to go through Puzstai's and other's books on that
one point. But he would know. This makes it a particularly invasive lectin.

While lectins occur in most foods, we don't understand a lot about their
roles. Many are housekeeping proteins that are totally harmless, cf the ones
in wheat and legumes and potatoes have been developed as defensive proteins
to deter bacteria, insects, worms and animals from eating them. I view
peanut lectins as defensive and hostile, but I agree more data is needed.

Ben Balzer

Todd Moody wrote:
>alzer, Ben wrote:

>Peanuts of course are a bean and have a very nasty lectin PNA and are
>definitely NOT Paleo. See Cordain's ref on his new website
>http://www.thepaleodiet.com/articles.htm
>

> question this.  Peanuts are edible raw, so they pass that test.  They
are New World foods, so they fail that test, if anybody's using it.
 Cordain's article pertains to peanut *oil*, which appears to be
atherogenic in animal studies.  I don't believe any study has ever shown
a correlation between eating whole peanuts and atherogenesis.  In fact,
studies of nut consumption generally *include* peanuts,..