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I think the magic formula to "nice" peanut butters like jif/skippy are: - hydrogenated: oil doesn't separate, at the expense of your health - sugar - on the Dr Rhonda Patrick episode of Joe Rogan, she said sugar+fat is really bad for you - salt That said, I agree with you on the organic stuff. You either get an oily mess or cement.
Joe Rogan is not a person to quote as a source.
As a US native who otherwise mostly abstains from sugary processed foods, big-brand peanut butter is one part of my country's food culture that I absolutely cannot shake. I don't eat fast food or drink soda, but I must have a jar of Jif around at all times. I have tried every type of organic peanut butter and found them all more or less vile, mostly due to the oiliness but there's also usually something flat & colorl…
I carried peanut butter with me on long trips to Europe. Never found anything that satisfied my homegrown PB yearnings.
Bummer that George Washington Carter died penniless and insane, trying to make a peanut into a phonograph needle.[0] [0] https://snltranscripts.jt.org/84/84iminute.phtml
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Oh no, this is not available in Canada?
Weird! It’s “How It’s Made” about peanut butter. Many of the episodes have British narration, and I watch them in the US.
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Might be worth it to find out if your brand of peanut butter contains palm oil (many do). https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil
That would be exactly the kind of thing I dread to know – this is the last item in my cupboard whose ingredients label I studiously avoid reading in order to keep enjoying it. But this is HN, so, let's see: INGREDIENTS: MADE FROM ROASTED PEANUTS AND SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MOLASSES, FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS (RAPESEED AND SOYBEAN), MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT. Oh, maybe molasses (and yes probably the s…
Fun fact: they remove the little nub in the middle of the peanut (called the "heart") before making peanut butter. Apparently the heart is more bitter than the two halves. https://youtu.be/4iUduCtx7cA?t=96
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I've found the Whole Foods store-brand smooth peanut butter is a good happy medium between Jif and the organic stuff. It stays emulsified a lot longer than others, but has more roasty peanut flavor (and less sugar) than the cheap stuff.
It seems that palm oil makes a decent alternative to hydrogenation. My current favorite butter is Trader Joe’s Crunchy No Stir, which contains 90% roasted peanuts, powdered sugar (cane sugar and cornstarch), palm oil, and sea salt (in that order on the label). 3g total sugar (2 added) in one 2 tablespoon / 32g serving.
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It seems that palm oil makes a decent alternative to hydrogenation. My current favorite butter is Trader Joe’s Crunchy No Stir, which contains 90% roasted peanuts, powdered sugar (cane sugar and cornstarch), palm oil, and sea salt (in that order on the label). 3g total sugar (2 added) in one 2 tablespoon / 32g serving.
Palm oil cultivation is responsible for massive rainforest deforestation.
These have a lot more piping than oil tankers, so each cargo compartment can be loaded with a different industrial commodity, some of which are known to be highly incompatible, such as acids vs alkalis. There's usually 10 or 20 different chemicals on a vessel at any one time.
This way if they are careful, the operators on board and on shore can transfer the parcel, without significant enough contamination from foreign chemicals in other tanks, otherwise the material would fail to meet specifications.
Not everyone is as careful as they should be all the time.
When a cargo does go off-test it can take a lot of prime material to blend it with in order to pass.
It can be a headache of industrial proportions. Lloyds of London can get involved.
For that reason I hate it when a benzene or methanol transfer picks up a little too much palm oil.
As a US native who otherwise mostly abstains from sugary processed foods, big-brand peanut butter is one part of my country's food culture that I absolutely cannot shake. I don't eat fast food or drink soda, but I must have a jar of Jif around at all times. I have tried every type of organic peanut butter and found them all more or less vile, mostly due to the oiliness but there's also usually something flat & colorl…
Also, you probably just need to try more alternative peanut butter. It took me a few tries to find something I liked.