Hi,

My family and relatives likes and eats lot of peanut butter and we use it in lot of things. The problem is that bulk peanut butter like Lady's Choice brand, the kind that comes in 5kg tub/pails is actually not real peanut butter, they call it peanut spread and it has a lot of hydrogenated palm oil or other hydrogenated vegetable oil. This is the same fake stuff that the mamaks use to cheat Indian people like "vegetable ghee" which is actually not ghee made from milk, instead they used the trick which is to hydrogenated the cheapest vegetable oil like palm oil, and make a chemical ghee which is similar to planta and then use colouring to make it look like ghee.

I saw many of the supermarket brands like Lady's Choice, Suzi Wan all use this trick with peanut butter/spread to make more profit, as the peanuts are more expensive than the hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Anyway, because of this I have difficulty finding simple honest peanut butter. End up having to pay like RM20 for 500g like Adam's Peanut Butter or other artisan manufacturer which is all more than RM20 for 500g. So monthly cost is becoming too high.

I would prefer to buy in bulk. Since it can last 6 months. I can consider buying 20kg one shot. I'm hoping you might know where to buy this kind of peanut butter (with no hydrogenated oils) in bulk. Maybe we can group buy if the minimum quantity is higher than 10kg.

Thanks!

I contacted Smuckers that makes Adam's Natural Peanut Butter but they said they don't export to Malaysia which is weird because I see it in Jaya Grocers. I asked Smuckers and they said they can't verify so there is a possibility what is sold in Malaysia is actually counterfeit Adam's Peanut Butter with their label or imported without the knowledge of Smuckers Corp!!

I also contacted Jaya Grocers / Trendcell Sdn Bhd and they said they don't distribute Adam's Peanut Butter in carton meaning I can't buy in bulk from them.

I think my family maybe 2-4 tablespoons per person per day. 20g per tablespoon * 3 spoons * 4 person * 30 days = 7.2kg. So 7.2kg per month. Then sometimes friends come so can easily round up to 8kg per month. Yeah, you can see how the more than RM400/month cost starts to affect me.

The other option is Yogood brand (Shyan Trading from Shah Alam). But I'm very suspicious of them. I contacted them and asked if they have verified they do not use hydrogenated palm oil and their email response was "The manufacturer has informed us that they do not use hydrogenated oils in the peanut butter.". I don't see any separation in their peanut butter and the taste sometimes tastes like peanut spread. So I feel suspicious because even their email response is something like, ah, the manufacturer guy told us no hydrogenated oil, so not our problem. But I feel like since the manufacturer doesn't even have their own brand, they aren't someone who can be trusted 100%.