ALMOND BUTTER v PEANUT BUTTER v NUTELLA
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I have a jar of almond butter at home. It's not bad, but not great either.
cashew butter is where it's at...
Cashews are the only nut Jesus eats.
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My trainer/nutritionist told me to avoid peanuts/ peanut butter and to do almond butter. He said peanuts have dangerously high amounts of omega 3 and although omega 3 is good for you extremly high amounts can be dangerous.0
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Nah, peanut butters are normally high in added sugars and poor quality hydrogenated oils.
Define "high". Because to me, arguing over 1 or 2 grams of sugar and a half a gram of fat that has non-detectable levels of trans fat* sounds fairly trivial.
*Non-detectable levels of trans-fatty acids in peanut butter. Sanders, TH. J Agric Food Chem. 2001 May;49(5):2349-51.0 -
My trainer/nutritionist told me to avoid peanuts/ peanut butter and to do almond butter. He said peanuts have dangerously high amounts of omega 3 and although omega 3 is good for you extremly high amounts can be dangerous.
here's what a run of the mill peanut butter has in 2 tbls. You can decide for yourself. http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/legumes-and-legume-products/4366/2
(and he probably said or meant omega 6 FA's).0 -
Can't I have them all mixed up and heavily spread onto WHITE bread!!!
my fav almond is Justins maple almond..
fav pbutter, jif natural with a touch of honey0 -
I absolutely
peanut butter. I've never tried the other two. Just pick what works for you. 0 -
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Nah, peanut butters are normally high in added sugars and poor quality hydrogenated oils.
Define "high". Because to me, arguing over 1 or 2 grams of sugar and a half a gram of fat that has non-detectable levels of trans fat* sounds fairly trivial.
*Non-detectable levels of trans-fatty acids in peanut butter. Sanders, TH. J Agric Food Chem. 2001 May;49(5):2349-51.
Pick a peanut butter.
then buy a pound of almonds and a pound of peanuts and make your own butters and compare.0 -
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Nah, peanut butters are normally high in added sugars and poor quality hydrogenated oils.
Define "high". Because to me, arguing over 1 or 2 grams of sugar and a half a gram of fat that has non-detectable levels of trans fat* sounds fairly trivial.
*Non-detectable levels of trans-fatty acids in peanut butter. Sanders, TH. J Agric Food Chem. 2001 May;49(5):2349-51.
Pick a peanut butter.
plain Creamy Jif...has 0.5g more saturated fat than "just peanuts", and 1g of sugar more than "just peanuts".
I would like to see an argument on how those 8 or 9 calories out of 190/serving are remotely significant to the overall diet and make that peanut butter significantly different nutritionally than a PB that is "just PB".
Especially given that I've just supplied a study that shows the trans fat are a non-detect in the partially hydrogenated oils that are used to stabilize the PB.0 -
Pick whichever one you like, but not so much so that you have a problem eating a limited amount at one time.
I like almond, peanut, walnut, and hazelnut.
Cashew is OK - reminds me of sweet cream butter. Macadamia is good, too, but the calories are high.
Nutella doesn't get a second glance from me. Way too sweet. Much tastier to spread your chosen nut butter on whatever you want and then melt your favorite chocolate over it ...0 -
or you could try this like i did. My lab in grad school measured aflatoxin levels in about 20 different PB's including some organic, natural, traditional commercial, and store crushed PB's.[
Nah, peanut butters are normally high in added sugars and poor quality hydrogenated oils.
Define "high". Because to me, arguing over 1 or 2 grams of sugar and a half a gram of fat that has non-detectable levels of trans fat* sounds fairly trivial.
*Non-detectable levels of trans-fatty acids in peanut butter. Sanders, TH. J Agric Food Chem. 2001 May;49(5):2349-51.
Pick a peanut butter.
then buy a pound of almonds and a pound of peanuts and make your own butters and compare.
At the end of the experiment we had all this PB sitting around the lab. I ate them all.
Jif was far and away still my favorite.0 -
Ooh that reminds me, pb mixed with a touch of golden syrup is amazing. :drinker:Can't I have them all mixed up and heavily spread onto WHITE bread!!!
my fav almond is Justins maple almond..
fav pbutter, jif natural with a touch of honey0 -
ALL OF THEM topped on a banana and jelly sandwich.
the things I would do..0 -
Not a fan of almond butter. I'm a peanut butter/Nutella kind of girl. Luckily, I'm able to limit myself with how much I eat of each. I always have a few jars floating around the house.0
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Nah, peanut butters are normally high in added sugars and poor quality hydrogenated oils.
Define "high". Because to me, arguing over 1 or 2 grams of sugar and a half a gram of fat that has non-detectable levels of trans fat* sounds fairly trivial.
*Non-detectable levels of trans-fatty acids in peanut butter. Sanders, TH. J Agric Food Chem. 2001 May;49(5):2349-51.
Pick a peanut butter.
plain Creamy Jif...has 0.5g more saturated fat than "just peanuts", and 1g of sugar more than "just peanuts".
I would like to see an argument on how those 8 or 9 calories out of 190/serving are remotely significant to the overall diet and make that peanut butter significantly different nutritionally than a PB that is "just PB".
Especially given that I've just supplied a study that shows the trans fat are a non-detect in the partially hydrogenated oils that are used to stabilize the PB.
I don't dislike commercial peanut butter the extra fat and added sugar. I dislike it because the fat is almost entirely different fat. Much of the flavor in peanuts and peanut butters comes from the peanut oil, which is removed and replaced with cheap, ****ty hydrogenated oils so that they can sell you cheap peanut butter and sell someone else expensive peanut oil. But, I like my peanut butter to taste like...peanuts.0 -
Much of the flavor in peanuts and peanut butters comes from the peanut oil, which is removed and replaced with cheap, ****ty hydrogenated oils so that they can sell you cheap peanut butter and sell someone else expensive peanut oil. But, I like my peanut butter to taste like...peanuts.
This is completely false. They don't take peanut oil out of Jif and Skippy and replace it with partially hydrogenated oils. This is evidenced by the fact that there are undetectable levels of trans fats in these peanut butters.
They add small amounts of hydrogenated oil for the purposes of consistency and mixing.0 -
Much of the flavor in peanuts and peanut butters comes from the peanut oil, which is removed and replaced with cheap, ****ty hydrogenated oils so that they can sell you cheap peanut butter and sell someone else expensive peanut oil. But, I like my peanut butter to taste like...peanuts.
This is completely false. They don't take peanut oil out of Jif and Skippy and replace it with partially hydrogenated oils. This is evidenced by the fact that there are undetectable levels of trans fats in these peanut butters.
They add small amounts of hydrogenated oil for the purposes of consistency and mixing.
I suppose any trans fat in Jif pb would be naturlally occuring. They add fully (not paritally) hydrogenated oil to their peanut butter.0 -
Much of the flavor in peanuts and peanut butters comes from the peanut oil, which is removed and replaced with cheap, ****ty hydrogenated oils so that they can sell you cheap peanut butter and sell someone else expensive peanut oil. But, I like my peanut butter to taste like...peanuts.
This is completely false. They don't take peanut oil out of Jif and Skippy and replace it with partially hydrogenated oils. This is evidenced by the fact that there are undetectable levels of trans fats in these peanut butters.
They add small amounts of hydrogenated oil for the purposes of consistency and mixing.
I suppose any trans fat in Jif pb would be naturlally occuring. They add fully (not paritally) hydrogenated oil to their peanut butter.
Oh really? Even less reason to care, then.
They certainly don't remove the peanut oil before adding other oil.0 -
Ooh that reminds me, pb mixed with a touch of golden syrup is amazing. :drinker:Can't I have them all mixed up and heavily spread onto WHITE bread!!!
my fav almond is Justins maple almond..
fav pbutter, jif natural with a touch of honey
Peanutbutter & syrup is my fav!!!! I don't know about a touch though, I drowned it!0 -
ETA: spread this stuff on one saltine, spread nutella on another saltine, make a sandwich with them, eat, repeat, thank me via PM.
OMW!0
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