Almond butter.... foul!?!

Does it have salt? We are used to the added sugar and salt in most peanut butters.

Almond butter is great. I'm guessing you might have gotten ahold of some with rancid oil, no salt or a lack of sweetener, which is added in to most nut butters.

If you're used to regular peanut butter, yes, it tastes different. Just like you would get used to unsweetened peanut butter, you will get used to almond butter.

I'm thinking you must have got a bad batch/brand too. If you enjoy nuts and peanut butter, it's sinfully good. I remember when I first tried it the flavor reminded me more of cashews than almonds. Delicious on toast. So good in fact I've banned it from my pantry for a while as my portion control was getting out of hand.

David_2015 wrote: »

Hi all
So I got a jar of almond butter earlier to alternate with my great love, peanut butter. Just had some on toast and it was *FOUL*! So bad I didn't even finish the toast. Is it one of those foods that takes time to get used to the taste of? Am I in the minority with that view? I thought I would love it as love almonds. Any opinions welcome.

Could be due to the fact that its canned and preserved or just the brand. Ive never tried it, but imagine it to be a completely different taste then almonds because even Peanut butter and peanuts taste different (still good) to me. Sometimes when foods are prepared differently they taste completely different, I cant think of any off the top of my head.

I like but don't love peanut butter (except for the freshly ground honey roasted stuff from Whole Foods that tastes exactly like the inside of a fresh Reese's cup - THAT I can't put down, it's magic in a little plastic container). I can take or leave almonds - I would never choose them but I don't avoid them either. I HATE almond butter. Hate.

sympha01 wrote: »

Brand / recipe matters. The first almond butter I tried (Marantha) I also thought was terrible. Then I met Justin's almond butter. Can't seem to keep Justin's nut products out of my mouth.

I'd say you either got a bad batch or it was missing an ingredient like salt or sugar. I've wanted to try other nut butters, but I haven't found one yet that isn't "natural" (ie, no sugar and/or salt).

hater.

Sunflower seed butter.

That is all.

Wow--really??? I love almond butter. The Whole Foods by me has a machine where you can grind either peanut butter or almond butter fresh (not on the same machine) and that stuff is delicious! totally yummy. if I need a pick me up I will do a tablespoon of either butter without the bread to be really calorie efficient. I bet the other posters are right--rancid or a bad batch. It should taste like yummy fresh almonds, that's all.

whmscll wrote: »

Snow__White wrote: »

i opened a jar in the store to sample it before i bought it,it was kinda yucky so i left it on the shelf!

Seriously? You just left a jar you opened and ate out of on the shelf for someone else to buy?

:noway: That would be pretty bad. Did you dunk your finger in there??

christinev297 wrote: »

whmscll wrote: »

Snow__White wrote: »

i opened a jar in the store to sample it before i bought it,it was kinda yucky so i left it on the shelf!

Seriously? You just left a jar you opened and ate out of on the shelf for someone else to buy?

:noway: That would be pretty bad. Did you dunk your finger in there??

Sadly, I suspect that this could be true.

People actually do that in one of the grocery stores near where I work. It's absolutely disgusting!! And you've really got to check everything when you buy it to make sure someone hasn't been into it, sampling.

Machka9 wrote: »

christinev297 wrote: »

whmscll wrote: »

Snow__White wrote: »

i opened a jar in the store to sample it before i bought it,it was kinda yucky so i left it on the shelf!

Seriously? You just left a jar you opened and ate out of on the shelf for someone else to buy?

:noway: That would be pretty bad. Did you dunk your finger in there??

Sadly, I suspect that this could be true.

People actually do that in one of the grocery stores near where I work. It's absolutely disgusting!! And you've really got to check everything when you buy it to make sure someone hasn't been into it, sampling.

oh boy ! You'd hear me squawking in the next isle if I ever saw someone doing that in my local grocery store.
Imagine getting home looking forward to your beloved peanut butter, and there was a dirty big finger full missing :sick:

christinev297 wrote: »

Machka9 wrote: »

christinev297 wrote: »

whmscll wrote: »

Snow__White wrote: »

i opened a jar in the store to sample it before i bought it,it was kinda yucky so i left it on the shelf!

Seriously? You just left a jar you opened and ate out of on the shelf for someone else to buy?

:noway: That would be pretty bad. Did you dunk your finger in there??

Sadly, I suspect that this could be true.

People actually do that in one of the grocery stores near where I work. It's absolutely disgusting!! And you've really got to check everything when you buy it to make sure someone hasn't been into it, sampling.

oh boy ! You'd hear me squawking in the next isle if I ever saw someone doing that in my local grocery store.
Imagine getting home looking forward to your beloved peanut butter, and there was a dirty big finger full missing :sick:

There's just so many people who do it in that particular store.

At any given moment there will be someone standing at the cherries in the produce section, eating them and tucking the stones under the boxes ... next aisle over, someone is carefully opening a box of granola bars and removing a couple ... a few aisles over, someone is helping themselves to a smear of deodorant ... one yogurt in a 6-pack might be opened and half eaten ...

Like I say, it's absolutely disgusting!

Sometimes they have police roaming through ... quite frequently, there will be calls for cameras in aisle 6 or wherever ... but it doesn't seem to help. Some people are just pigs.

I am curious about almond butter. I can't eat peanut butter, so I wonder if it would be an alternative for me. It sounds good ...