If peanut butter is healthy in moderation, can a person prone to kidney stones still eat it because of its high oxalate level?

Only in moderation!: Oxalate renal stones are formed due to excess oxalate in the urine, caused primarity by excessive meat, peanut or chocolate consumption. Avoiding these stones involves drinking fluids, avoiding oxalate contaning foods in excess, and consuming calcium containing foods - calcium binds oxalate in the gut, preventing its absorption. Spinach is actually one of the foods highest in oxalate!

Yes: This pathologist believes that significantly restricting diet of folks with previous oxalate kidney stones is non-evidence-based. Drink plenty of water, comply with the other directions, and you should be fine. And when did peanut butter become "high oxalate"? That's for stuff like rhubarb and high-dose vitamin c.

Oxalate: Avoid dehydration; Follow this Diet: avoid spinach, rhubarb, strawberries, nuts, chocolate, tea, wheat bran, and all dry beans; increase Citrate: orange juice 8 oz twice daily; ReaLemon extract: 5 tblspns per day; increase fluid 4 liters/day; only 4 oz meat/day; 4-5 fruits/day; maintain low salt; egg white 2 per day as protein; 25 mg HCTZ (hydrochlorothiazide) daily to reduce Ca urine; peanut butter 1 tblspn / da is ok