Which brand of peanut butters do u guys prefer or recommend?

i checked the labels of Skippy and Organic ones at jusco and i see very little difference in protein and fat content. Only difference is organic ones are priced twice as much than normal ones

Not sure about Protein Content, but Steffi's has the least sugar content as I find it to be the least sweet among other brands. It's really rich in Peanut taste, so I guess there's alot of protein.

Try looking out for it. Can be found in Carrefour.

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nais... thx

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Duh. They are both made from peanuts... of course they both have the same protein and fat content.

It's the way they are planted that are different.

It's not the protein content that matters, but how the manufacturers prepared them.

Natural peanut butter tend to seperate at room temperature (oil will float on top) because its melting point is 3 deg celcius. Manufacturers then hydrogenate the oil to maintain its creamy consistency. This will create transfat, and this is the evilest of all fat out there (more evil than saturated fat).

Nowadays instead of doing that, some manufacturers add palm oil into the mix because they liquify at 35 degrees, so there's no need to hydrogenate.

If you really want to find good peanut butters, go to Cold Storage or Jusco supermarket, where you can have wider range of peanut butters instead of your hydrogenated Jiff and Ladies Choice.

For organic peanut butters, it's just how they farm the peanuts and what they put inside the peanut butter - with pesticides or no pesticides, with organic sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

so bottom line is... any peanut butter in the supermarket will do? juz watch for hydrogenated fat rite?

Yeap. Or if you're still too paranoid, make one yourself, it's not very hard.

Took Steffi's and Adam's before, Steffi's saltier whereas Adam's slightly sweeter.

This post has been edited by lilredridinghood: Nov 24 2010, 05:08 PM

I prefer the peanut butter with that chocolate stripe. It tastes better.

The chocalate stripe is the Lady's Choice brand?

tats where the excess sugar comes in.
well tasty food are always the unhealthy ones.
(ken is so gonna correct my sentence )

i like adam's 100% natural peanut butter cos the only ingredent is peanut n nothing else

let the oil separate lah, can use for cookin also.

u mean the oil inside the peanut butter? It should be stirred instead

i'm still struggling to find adam's PB in PJ area. any idea?

sad to say, my source here has been cut too...

it should b stirred, but tat doesn't mean u can't do something else with it

got it from Jaya Grocer, Empire

Does the peanuts in the peanut butter cause u to have more pimples?Cos many people said to avoid peanuts cos it will make u have more pimples

That is a myth, there is no scientific prove that peanut butter caused acne.
Only if you are allergic.

p/s: When buying peanut butter from shops, avoid those that contain hydrogenated oils, they bring harm to our body. The reason behind them is cause "consumer don't have to stir the oil on top of the peanut butter", always get natural salt and peanut.

This post has been edited by aKiSuSu: Nov 25 2010, 04:48 PM

So example of peanut butters that have hydrogenated oils will be Lady's Choice?

And btw,does natural peanut butter contain oil on top?

Almost all contain hydrogenated oil.
If the ingredient list contains: vegetable oil, then there's hydrogenated oil added. Manufacturers sometimes use hydrogenated vegetable oil vs vegetable oil interchangeably.

I see

So which brand is the most natural ones?I heard Adam's is one of those?

You are able to get natural peanut butter from bakery shops / cafe.
Look out for them.

P/S: Get those that has a coating of oil on top of them, that's what peanut butter supposed to look like !! That is also the reason why manufacturer add hydrogenated oil (so that their peanut butter looks good).

This post has been edited by aKiSuSu: Nov 26 2010, 01:14 AM

Nowadays, natural pb doesnt have oil floating on top. Refer to my early posts.

Have to check that up.

I purchase my PB from nearest local bakery, homemade without any brand.

Maybe I should rephrase it as 'doesnt have to have oil floating on top'

Floating is fine, but that doesnt mean non floating ones arent. Check the ingredients.

So if there's oil on top,what should I do with it?Throw it away or mix it together?

u jus stir before eating...
of course, u can use it for other purpose too...cookin etc

I see,if throw away the oil can?

Can. But a bit stupid. Nutritionally, it's good stuff.

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Added on November 27, 2010, 12:12 amSyd, just wanna clarify...
Is it listed as palm oil or palm kernel oil or hydrogenated palm kernel oil?

All 3 of those things are a bit different. Palm oil is the one we use for cooking, made from the pulp of palm; and palm kernel oil is from the kernel/seed.

Only HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL is solid at room temp. And this is why Msian chocolates taste lousy. They use Hydrogenated PKO instead of real cocoa butter. =)

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Nov 27 2010, 12:12 AM

Oh I see,I thought the oil wasn't good

It's labelled as palm oil. The one used for cooking is unbleached, deodorized, refined palm oil olein. Naturally palm oil has stearin and olein, red in colour. Since I'm not a food manufacturer I dont really know whether it's palm stearin or palm kernel stearin (both dont need hydrogenation to stay solid btw, so I'd like to correct your statement there ) ... so as I mentioned, if you're really paranoid - make your own

i pour it away las time.
as i was pourin it away, the smell damn NICE!!!!!!
i totally regret my action

What brand you bought?

adam 100% natural peanut butter - creamy

Sounds good,gonna try and find it