Peanut Butter?

Smucker's has an all natural pb and now Peter Pan has come out with one. I've tried the Smucker's and it's good but it separates from the oils and I am not a fan of cold pb. (it should be refrigerated after opening). On another note for pb, it has become my binge food and unfortunately, I'm going to have to say goodbye to it for a while.

Peanut butter is awesome for you. Reduced fat peanut butter... not so awesome.

Here is the ingredient statement on some reduced fat peanut butter. (PEANUTS, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SOY PROTEIN, SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MOLASSES, SALT, FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS (RAPESEED, COTTONSEED AND SOYBEAN), FOLIC ACID, NIACINAMIDE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE, ALPHATOCOPHERYL ACETATE, COPPER SULFATE, FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE, MAGNESIUM OXIDE, ZINC OXIDE.)

What you can take from that is they reduced the fat by adding soy protein. And this particular brand of peanut butter contains 190 calories and 12 grams of fat per serving (2 TBSP).

Now, if we switch to this same brand's natural peanut butter, here is what is in it (PEANUTS, SUGAR, PALM OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, MOLASSES.)

Also, it comes in at 190 calories and 16 grams of fat per serving (2 TBSP). So you might be saving a little on the fat, but you're losing nutrients (which is why they had to add all of that stuff to the other one) and you're not saving any calories -- which is really what you should be counting. Because too many calories = weight gain

I LOVE peanut butter. My absolute favorite is Trader Joe's peanut butter with flaxseed. It is so delicious. I recently saw it at Target (not the same brand obviously, but made by the same company).