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Is peanut butter high in calories?
The calorie of peanut butter (calculated by 100g edible part) is 594 calories (2485 kilojoules), and the unit calorie is higher among similar foods. The calories per 100g of peanut butter account for about 26% of the total daily calories recommended by the China Nutrition Society for ordinary adults to keep healthy. Therefore, peanut butter should naturally be classified as a high-calorie food.

Peanut butter is a kind of food with high nutritional value. It is rich in fat, protein, carbohydrates, calcium and iron and various vitamins. It has the reputation of "green food".

Peanut butter is rich in protein, mineral trace elements and a lot of B vitamins and vitamin E, etc. It has the effects of lowering blood pressure and blood lipid, and can play a certain auxiliary treatment role in aplastic anemia and diabetes.

Peanut butter also has the effects of strengthening body resistance, invigorating spleen and stomach, moistening lung and resolving phlegm, nourishing and regulating qi, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, stopping bleeding and promoting lactation, clearing throat and stopping malaria.

Peanut butter has a certain auxiliary effect on the treatment of malnutrition, anemia and chlorosis, spleen and stomach imbalance, expectoration, constipation, galactorrhea, bleeding and other diseases.

Peanut butter contains tryptophan, which helps you fall asleep.