Peanut Butter has High Fructose Corn Syrup?

[diabeticman]

Making myself a peanut butter sandwich earlier and notice on the jar that it said "No High Fructose Corn Syrup" I'm thinking to myself are peanut butters being made with the junk?

[hlthe2b]

1. I eat only natural peanut butter (peanuts and salt)... but commercial P'butter, especially low fat

has lots of sugar added.

If you aren't reading ingredient and nutritional labels, you should get in the habit.

[Kali]

2. sugars and salt are often added to peanutbutter

labels - read them

[Graybeard]

3. I buy only Smucker's Natural.

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Ingredients: Peanuts

It also says less than 1% salt but this is a very low sodium, low carb peanut butter. It wouldn't surprise me at all that the sweeter brands aimed at kids are using HFCS.
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[sir pball]

12. Skippy is sugar

Just checked. It's not as healthy as nothing but a damn sight better than HFCS..

[Incitatus]

19. +1. I loves me some Smuckers natural peanut butter. nt

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Doesn't everything have HFCS in it?

Hell, I worry about my aspargus these days.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Some peanut butter contains HFCS or sugar.

Jif, for example: MADE FROM ROASTED PEANUTS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (RAPESEED AND SOYBEAN), MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, MOLASSES, SUGAR, SALT.

But you can get peanut butter that's made out of nothing but peanuts. Tastes better, too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I know there are some stores where you can make your own peanut butter.

Whole Foods used to, and maybe they still do. You never need to worry about what 's in it, or having it separate. You just put it in the refrigerator when you get home, and it stays just as it is.

[MiddleFingerMom]

25. I didn't know it didn't separate -- that's always been a big detractor twixt me and "natural' PB's.

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[Arugula Latte]

7. I get this stuff:

You have to stir it up to incorporate the natural peanut oil that separates, but so what...

[fizzgig]

10. me, too

it's what i've been eating since i was a kid

[NV Whino]

18. Yes!

Adams is good stuff. I laughed when I first read the label.

[winter is coming]

20. I buy sunbutter (peanut allergies in my house), but the separation issues are the same.

I usually put the jar in my pantry upside down for a day or two, then empty the jar into a medium-sized bowl and stir it up, then put it back in the the jar and put the jar in the fridge. That way, I don't end up with stuff in the bottom of the jar that's the consistency of plumber's putty.

[dembotoz]

8. it seems that today even air has high fructose corn syrup

[applegrove]

9. It used to be made with lard and icing sugar. I get the straight peanut stuff myself. Sure you have

to remix the peanut oil with the ground peanut. Just use a knife.

[sir pball]

11. I season my homemade PB

Usually with turbinado sugar boiled with just a little water, to make a thick syrup, and quite a bit more salt than the store brands (tragic flaw of a culinarian). Sometimes honey, or even molasses if I want to tweak the flavor a bit.

But yeah, commercial PB has sweeteners added. Skippy (the jar in my cabinet at the moment) is real sugar at least.

[womanofthehills]

13. And don't forget the aflitoxin

http://www.emagazine.com/daily-news/a-new-peanut-butter-scare

"If you’re considering buying a healthy, organic peanut butter, you’d be wise to pick up some celery sticks to dip in it. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that eating vegetables such as celery, carrots, parsnips and parsley can decrease the carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin."

[applegrove]

14. You think that is bad? I just found out

that sugar has both glucose and fructose in it. The fructose of course cannot be processed in any other way except to be stored as fat when there is too much of it. I must read up more on that.

[Paulie]

16. Here' a start

[TreasonousBastard]

15. Some do, and some have...

hydrogenated soy oil to stretch it. The sugars help hide the nasty soy stuff.

I buy the various brands around here that have the oil on the top and the ingredients say peanuts and salt. Just a little salt. Do cost a bit more, though.

It does bother me when I see mothers with a couple of toddlers in tow going for the cheap stuff-- cheap only because it's stretched with other, not so good, oils.

[talkingmime]

17. I get Richard's peanut butter - "Ingredient: Peanuts"

[Coyotl]

21. The short list is the stuff that doesn't.

Sausage, yogurt, you name it almost, ...

[Mnpaul]

22. Not only the peanut butter

The bread may have it as well. They use it to get the bread to rise faster.

[Z_I_Peevey]

23. Just read a book about peanuts

And peanut butter: Creamy and Crunchy. Fascinating stuff. Jif was the worst offender for sweeteners, IIRC.

http://www.creamyandcrunchy.com/works.htm

[MiddleFingerMom]

24. I think CaliforniaPeggy mentioned that Whole Foods has grinders that allow you to make your own...

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We used sometimes ADD sugar to peanut butter sammitches that we made ourselves as kids (as well
as the thoroughly delicious butter-and-sugar on white bread -- I think that might have been a legacy
from my folks then they were "Depression babies&quot .
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[freshwest]

26. COSTCO has MaraNatha Almond Butter. Just almonds, nothing else. Give it a try.