Are peanut shells bad for you?

[sasquatch]

:shrug:
I ask because I know someone that eats peanuts shells and all. I just tried it and it's something I coulid get used to. Right now I but salted shelled nuts and suck the salt off the shell and then crack with my teeth, pull it, then seperate the shell with my fingers and eat the nut.

[Kali]

1. Fiber.

Maybe a teeny tiny miniscule chance of causing an impaction but suspect not much. The only other thing I could thing of would be scratching the lining of esophagus or stomach? Chew well and get it good an soggy.



Oh and...EWWWW.

[YankeyMCC]

2. I often or at least I used to eat them

at the ball park when I ate my bag of roasted peanuts. I don't know if they're particularly bad for you, I imagine the extra fiber might help contact the fats in the peanuts :shrug:

[sasquatch]

4. I like shelled nuts, I just don't like the mess involved

I'm using a old empty pretzel bag to discard my "dead soldiers".

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. The only thing I could think wouldn't be good is the salt in 'em

If they've been salted, most of the salt is - at least, I should think so - in the shell, so you could end up eating a lot of extra salt.

That said, I love the shells, and always eat quite a few when I'm eating peanuts in the shell.

[Maineiac]

5. Eating them is not as bad for you as

tossing the shells on the floor them slipping on them and breaking a leg or twisting an ankle or anything else that might cause a premature end to your night of drinking.