# Some peanut butter deadly for dogs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-peanut-butter-deadly-for-dogs/721423>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 2, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-peanut-butter-deadly-for-dogs/721423 "2015-06-02T06:50:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-peanut-butter-deadly-for-dogs/721423/22 "2015-06-04T23:32:20Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Why would anyone buy peanut butter with sweetener in it? My peanut butter has two ingredients: peanuts and salt.

> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> Quoted for truth.

And if it’s not 90% ground peanuts, you can’t call it peanut butter. So even the brands castigated for being “junk” can contain no more than 10% sugar.

This whole expanding segment of “spreads” that are largely compounded of tropical fats and sugar, with a pinch of this and that for flavor, are really an insidious invasion of the grocery shelf. This stuff is marketed directly at kids’n’moms, right next to peanut butter (which, while not exactly a health snack, is better than most such crap on the shelves), and using an unregulated term like “spread” means that you’d better read the black box carefully, because the rest of the label is even more deceptive bullshit than most packages. (Yes, Nutella, with your little green sprig of healthy nothing and utterly fictional description, I’m looking at you.)

That a ‘spread’ might be toxic for dogs is almost inconsequential - look at how many dog owners don’t know ibuprofen will kill Fido and Fifi, and do it painfully and nastily.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-peanut-butter-deadly-for-dogs/721423/23 "2015-06-05T09:49:57Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Why would anyone buy peanut butter with sweetener in it? My peanut butter has two ingredients: peanuts and salt.

There are brands and varieties of peanut butter that only have _one_ ingredient (and it ain’t salt).

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-peanut-butter-deadly-for-dogs/721423/24 "2015-06-05T13:14:24Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> There are brands and varieties of peanut butter that only have _one_ ingredient (and it ain’t salt).

I’m a bit of a PB aficionado, and while I can see the market for the goober-only stuff, it really needs at least a little salt for proper flavor.

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