Peanut Flour

Just think: you can get a protein and fiber boost even when eating decadent sweets and baked goods.

Montebello Kitchens’ de-fatted peanut flour also works great for smoothies and spice rubs. The high protein content makes it an appropriate choice for elite athletes, like marathon runners, who need a sustained energy source for their training. The product is a perfect example of Montebello Kitchens’ commitment to good taste and a healthy lifestyle.

The flour is already a key ingredient in all three Montebello Kitchens peanut soup mixes, which have received recognition from the Queen of England, United States Congress and Senate, among other noteworthy sources. Following on the heels of this success, and recognizing the many health benefits of the peanut, the company will now sell the flour separately as owner Steven Lynch continues his mission to make food fun, accessible, and most importantly, healthy. Blended with nutritious organic agave inulin, the defatted peanut flour is not only low in fat, it’s also loaded with the protein, fiber, and myriad nutrients found naturally in peanuts. Too, the organic agave inulin provides many specific health benefits.

Inulin is considered a prebiotic, a non-digestible food fiber that promotes the growth of “good bacteria” in the digestive tract. These “good bacteria” are called probiotics, a term already popular in the current health lexicon. Probiotics are essential toward maintaining a healthy balance of “good bacteria” in the digestive tract, which in turn wards off disease and infection. The lesser-recognized idea, now gaining ground, is that these probiotics actually depend on prebiotics (like inulin) to sustain. Dr. Mehmet Oz, professor of surgery at Columbia University (and perhaps best known for his association with the Oprah Winfrey show), stresses the important symbiotic relationship between prebiotics and probiotics. According to Oz, “probiotic bacteria are not normally found in the human intestine, so they often don’t colonize well when they’re introduced. Therefore, prebiotic foods are vital to encourage probiotic organisms to survive and thrive in the human gut.”

  De-fatted Peanut Flour with Prebiotics 

This is a high-protein, low-fat peanut flour. It is a light roast, all natural and gluten-free. It can be used in many low-fat, high-protein recipes.