Question about peanut butter?!

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REAL peanut butter is made with only peanuts and salt. But there is a variation in peanuts--what kind of peanuts they are, how they are roasted. There are as many different ways to roast peanuts as there is coffee!

Big brands like Skippy and Jif try to get a consistent product, so people will get the same thing in jar after jar. They are the peanut butter equivalent of McDonalds--you always know just exactly what you're going to get.

Natural peanut butter needs to be stirred up. You stir it up completely when you get it, and then if you keep it in the refrigerator it won't separate again. But I don't like it cold. I keep it just in the pantry, and I stir it a little each time I use it. It still gets a little thick at the bottom, but I don't mind.

Some peanut butter has a lot more oil in it than others. So some is 'looser', less viscous. My brother in law told me he likes it thick, so when he buys it he drains off a little oil from the top before he stirs it up. I'd guess this makes it a little lower in fat also.

No-stir PB, like Skippy and Jif, are about 1/5 -shortening-. They add hydrogenated fats (i.e. transfats) to the peanut butter to 'stabilize' it, so it won't separate. It makes it creamier and smoother too, but think about eating PB & Crisco. 8^P Blecch!

Peanut butter is supposed to separate the oil from the butter, in natural peanut butter. Jiffy and all that stuff puts in like, additives to say the least, that help the oil bond better to the butter.

The reason they taste different is probably because of the freshness of the peanuts used, I mean Jiffy mass produces peanut butter, whereas a natural one is probably created on a much smaller scale and better peanuts are used.

Natural peanut butter is just nuts, Thats it so of course it will taste different its a lot healthier too! and yeah you will have to shake/stir it up before you can use it that's how it do oil separates from everything.

Jiff peanut butter adds tons of chemicals, and additives, and unhealthy things. Thats why it taste so different so they can get you to buy it more and eat it more and become overweight.

Very simple, read the one ingredient on the natural peanut butter jar and then compare it to the multitude of chemicals in jif, skippy, peter pan, (pick your favorite name brand).

That would be why...

-Because all those Additives that go into making it Creamy & Un-separated -DO alter the Taste alittle... But since MOST of Us grew up on THAT Kind of Peanut Butter, most of Us don't know any better !! :)

If you read the ingredients on the jiffy jar it becomes pretty obvious why they taste so different.

I love natural because it is pure and tastes like delicious peanuts. They taste so different because thing like jif have lots of sugar and other crap.

Apart from stabilisers (to stop the oil separating )and such some companies add sugar and salt which alters the taste.

one is natural, and one tastes like chemicals and extra crap