# Are dry roasted peanuts a healthy snack?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 11, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dry-roasted-peanuts-a-healthy-snack/433061 "2008-01-11T00:32:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dry-roasted-peanuts-a-healthy-snack/433061/21 "2008-01-11T21:16:48Z")

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[QUOTE=scr4]  
How can something be “very flling” and “low in calories” at the same time? Do you mean physicall filling (large volume)? If so, is water the ideal snack?

😕  
[nitpick: it’s “curb” not “curve”]  
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I can’t believe I typed ‘curve’.

Again, an apple is an example of a food that is more filling than peanuts but has far fewer calories. Someone offered up a ‘big salad’ as a way to get full but consume fewer calories, and that is the idea behind smart snacking, too.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dry-roasted-peanuts-a-healthy-snack/433061/22 "2008-01-12T02:07:48Z")

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[QUOTE=scr4]  
How can something be “very flling” and “low in calories” at the same time? Do you mean physicall filling (large volume)? If so, is water the ideal snack?

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There’s a thing called a “satiety rating” where potatoes, for instance, rank very high (in other words, they get rid of your hunger). High Fructose Corn Syrup ranks very very low. I am not sure where peanuts lie in that.  
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list\_uids=7498104](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=7498104)

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