• tomkatt@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, but JIF is like… sugar and palm kernel oil garbage. It’s a peanut butter product, not peanut butter.

    Peanut butter should have one or two ingredients, max. Peanuts, and maybe salt.

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      4 months ago

      The oil in Jif is rapeseed (canola) and/or soybean, not palm. Not disagreeing with your sentiment in general, but for the sake of clarity…

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          4 months ago

          It’s hard to escape palm oil. It’s a shame. It could be an environmentally friendly option if greedy people were just a little less greedy.

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            4 months ago

            The sad part about palm oil (other than environmental) is, it blocks the taste of most foods. It’s too heavy. Things just taste greasy and almost flavorless.

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      4 months ago

      2% or less of added oils. I get natty PB as well but it’s not quite as good as a bad food. I’m 6’3” and 195 at near 40 years old, my diet is fine. Jif is probably the “worst” thing I enjoy regularly. I still maintain it’s the best PB of the commercially produced varieties.

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      This was my biggest complaint about an abroad stint in the Netherlands — all the peanut butter* was JIF style/huge ingredient list. Agree completely — only acceptable ingredients are peanuts and salt.

      The beer wasn’t all my style, but I could certainly appreciate it.

      *“pindakaas” literally “peanut cheese,” I think because “butter” is reserved for dairy products.

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          I’m sure there are, but they were not available at Jumbo (or any of the other stores I went to). In the US, I generally find them at any store I go to (a long with JIF, etc. of course) — I never have to “look hard enough” to find it.

          This was a decade ago, so perhaps things changed.

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            I haven’t been to the Netherlands in a while either, but at Albert Heijn they had PB made from peanuts only, and I remember there being several brands that were like this. Miles better than in other parts of Europe.