Just check the ingredient list on the packaging, if they have it. At least here in the Netherlands, “normal” peanut butter contains more palm fat than peanut and it contains quite some sugar as well. I can taste the sugar and dislike it, but then I grew up with “100%” peanut butter, containing only peanuts and nothing else, so I may be used to something weird compared to my countrymen.
From what I’ve gathered, peanut butter in the USA contains a lot of sugar, too.
Peanut butter can have extra sugars due other ingredients. Natural peanut butters do not. Interestingly enough, Walmart brand (which is about as cheap as you can get) peanut butter has 4g sugar. So 4g sugars for Walmart vs 1g sugars for organic 100% peanuts. It’s more, but not a whole lot more.
Interesting. When I’ve tried pb&j for the first time (during the aughts), I thought regular peanutbutter complemented ham (or marmalade) really well already. Maybe even better with some salt.
Mixing sweet with more sweet is a very kids thing to do.
Yeah, I use unsweetened peanut butter (effectively just mushed peanuts) in lots of recipes where tahini would normally be used.
I still need to figure out, if I’m using tahini wrong. 😅
Sesame always tastes bitter to me, as does tahini. Peanut butter doesn’t…
What do you mean by “unsweetened peanutbutter”? There’s sweetened peanutbutter? Is that some kraft foods shit?
Just check the ingredient list on the packaging, if they have it. At least here in the Netherlands, “normal” peanut butter contains more palm fat than peanut and it contains quite some sugar as well. I can taste the sugar and dislike it, but then I grew up with “100%” peanut butter, containing only peanuts and nothing else, so I may be used to something weird compared to my countrymen.
From what I’ve gathered, peanut butter in the USA contains a lot of sugar, too.
Peanut butter can have extra sugars due other ingredients. Natural peanut butters do not. Interestingly enough, Walmart brand (which is about as cheap as you can get) peanut butter has 4g sugar. So 4g sugars for Walmart vs 1g sugars for organic 100% peanuts. It’s more, but not a whole lot more.
In the US most brands peanut butters have added sugar. It looks like you might be in Canada and I wouldn’t be surprised if the same is true there.
I think the dominant flavor is still salty, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had Jif or Skippy.
Well, whenever I’ve talked about this in the past, there was always someone who asked “You put (sweet) peanut butter into your savory food?!”.
Wikipedia also says that it commonly contains sweeteners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter
But yeah, not sure if that’s maybe specifically a thing in the US. They do love to put sugar into everything and I just came across this article, which mentions that when PB&Js became popular in the US, sugar was still seen as good: https://www.thetakeout.com/why-americans-love-peanut-butter-best-vs-rest-of-world-1850648598/
Interesting. When I’ve tried pb&j for the first time (during the aughts), I thought regular peanutbutter complemented ham (or marmalade) really well already. Maybe even better with some salt.
Mixing sweet with more sweet is a very kids thing to do.