It appears to have worked.
Peanut paste is peanuts crushed until it acquires a paste-like consistency, with absolutely nothing added. Peanut butter, on the other hand, is peanut paste with anything, from just a touch of salt to corn syrup solids, sugar, soy protein, salt, hydrogenated vegetable oils, mono and diglycerides, minerals, vitamins added.
I do not believe that is true.
This is the right, best answer.
I like this explanation, although, without a label, how is the consumer to know whether his peanut butter is adulturated or a pure paste?
Apple goo. And that was the phrase that actually won in the marketing focus groups.
Peanut paste sounds like another one of those peculiar peanut derived products that George Washington Carver invented in the 19th century, along with “Oils, Emulsified with Mercury for Venereal Disease”, and “Evaporated Peanut Beverage”.
You look at the ingredient list on the label. If it says anything other than PEANUTS, it is peanut butter.
And yet, as of an hour ago, Ike Witt still does not believe it.
I don’t believe it because I can buy a jar of nothing but ground up nuts and it says Peanut Butter on the label, not Peanut Paste.
There was a push a few years ago from an American dairy farmers group to prevent soy milk from being marketed as “milk”, as to avoid any confusion with actual milk. Presumably “peanut paste” is what happens when such people get to the point of making law.
To a point. Finely ground whole peanuts produce a gooey product called peanut butter, which can be 100% those peanuts or up to 5% additives like sugar. If it’s less than 95% peanuts, it can’t be called peanut butter.
The term “peanut paste” seems to be an entirely internal industry designation, not a food product. If it’s appeared in consumer land, I suspect “peanut paste” is a labeling workaround like “spread” or “loaf” that allows foodmakers to produce a product that’s more like Nutella (40% palm oil [nearly 100% saturated fat] and 45% sugar, with 10-13% ground hazelnuts, a pinch of cocoa and a dusting of skim milk powder) than anything labeled PB in accordance with FDA regs.
While PB may not be a health food any more than juice is, it’s not the catchall of glop that some seem to think. Not even Jif.
Ah, it’s a vowel thing.
Wait, I already posted to this thread, and made the remark I came here to make. :smack:
So I looked it up, and son-of-a-gun, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. I’ve been mislead.
Also, there’s a wikipedia page on the difference between peanut butter and peanut paste.
It appears that as an industry and marketing term, peanut butter is the product marketed to consumers directly, with or without sugar and other additives (to some limits), whereas peanut paste is a raw unadulterated product as marketed to industry for use in other products, such as candy bars or crackers and whatnot.
Of course not. Everyone knows it’s a peanut paste and fruit goo sandwich.
Weird. My peanut butter sticks to everything.
Here is an example. As said above, it appears to be an industry term. At the consumer level, it’s all peanut butter.
Peanut paste is what you use to brush your peanuts.
Why isn’t tomato paste called tomato butter?
What’s the big deal with the word paste in peanut paste?
Why can’t it just be called peanut paste instead of butter?
Is it because paste is associated with like adhesive that’s used for crafts? Unappetizing?
When I think of butter, I think of something that is unspreadable, cold, hard like a rock. Little square block you have to try to spread evenly. When I think of paste, I think of something that is spreadable. Or margarine. Peanut margarine.
The only other reason I can think of why it’d be called peanut butter is because you’d use a butter knife to spread it onto bread. A lot of people use a knife to spread mayo, jelly, and other things onto bread though.
Peter Pan Peanut Paste. PPPP. Sounds better than Peter Pan Peanut Butter.
Meh.
If you think of butter as cold and hard, you’re doing it wrong.
Ich schreien, du schreien, wir schreien für… Eiscreme?