Jif, but I kinda doubt I could pass a blind taste test.
Peanuts, peanut oil, and peanut butter, will eventually go rancid. That certainly does affect the taste.
I think that some of the stuff they include in peanut butter (salt?) also has the effect of stabilizing it, and making it last longer before it starts to change flavor.
Around here, I don’t have to keep PB in the fridge. The only stuff I’ve ever had change flavour was more than a year old, and stored in a non-temperature controlled area. Other people report other experiences.
(I know it also depends on the peanut variety)
Yeah, but if something’s broken on one side you can’t fix it by breaking the other side to match. Adding hydrogenated oils should also disqualify it as being called “peanut butter.”
… In the same way that also using butter on your bread disqualifies it from being called a “Peanut Butter sandwich” or adding gravy to roast beef disqualifies you from saying that you have “roast beef” for dinner.
That’s interesting. When eating my PB right out of the jar with a spoon, I’ll sometimes squirt in a little maple syrup (we keep it in the same cabinet). That’s a mighty fine snack!
(Chocolate chips are even better, though.)
I would tend to agree. If adding palm oil makes it “peanut butter spread,” then adding hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils should also make it “peanut butter spread.”
Sun-Pat here (UK), which I always thought was an American brand but it seems not…
Never heard of it, so probably not, or if it is, it’s limited to certain areas.
That would keep it in line with the regulations for labeling cheese vs. processed cheese (or cheese product, cheese food, etc.).
I was buying peanut butter this week and I thought of this thread. I decided to try JIF for the first time. I bought JIF natural which has palm oil and molasses in it. It is really delicious. It’s my new favorite peanut butter. Thanks, everyone.
I do like a cheese flavored food slice on my burgers.
Apparently an FDA rule. Palm oil is not considered a “suitable stabilizing agent” for some reason.
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Of course, they can still put it in, they just can’t just label it peanut butter without a modifier. But note that you can’t label something as just cheese if it has any other stuff blended with it, even if that other stuff is a different cheese.
Yeah, that’s the odd thing. Regular JIF, with the vegetable shortening, is labeled as “peanut butter,” in the same way a just-peanuts-and-salt butter is. Natural JIF, which an average consumer would think should be more “natural” and more akin to real peanut butter than regular JIF, is “peanut butter spread.” So I do find that kind of odd and confusing, though a lot of labeling laws do require reading the fine print and digging up regulations and figuring out what the FDA considers “peanut butter” and what they consider “peanut butter spread” and completely ignoring marketing terms like “natural.”
The demographic of interest would consist of people who say they like natural peanut butter: practically everyone else wouldn’t have reason to care one way or the other.
I’d bet that a pretty hefty percentage of that demographic would have a problem with labeling peanut butter as natural if it contained sweeteners other than ground-up peanuts.
Huh. I actually wouldn’t think most of the “natural” label-looking folks would care about honey being included (given the recipes I’ve seen online for “natural peanut butter,” which often also include molasses) but I don’t know for certain.
My work here is done.
I’m currently working my way through a large jar of the ALDI “Peanut Delight” store brand of peanut butter. Peanuts, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil, salt and molasses. The last item is a bit odd, but there is no way I could tell when it’s in a PB&J.
has anyone tried one of those make your own nut butter grinders in the store ? We did once for the novelty of it and no offense but peanut butter needs something ot thin it out or its dry wall plaster ……
A lot of places are using molasses instead of corn syrup as a sweetner/thickening agent because its all natural
Actually if I could find a decent sized jar of cashew nut butter with honey for something cheaper than my left teste on a regular basis id give up peanuts permanently
I am a connoisseur of store brand groceries. The best peanut butter I found is (was?) Save-A-Lot’s Panner brand. Good and peanutty, not too sweet. They have recently changed suppliers and now have a different brand. I have about a half jar left of the good stuff. I might try the new stuff. Who knows? It may be good, too, but I’m not feeling it.