Pete Romfh wrote:
1/4 cup Peanut butter ; - Reduced fat version is best

I accidentally bought a jar of reduced fat "peanut spread" and it's been
on my shelf for months as it didn't sound appetizing to me. It was the
last jar left yesterday, and I looked at it and noticed it said "60%
peanuts" on the front. I wondered what the heck the other 40% was...
even Jif and Skippy are primarily peanuts!

The main ingredient list is peanuts, corn syrup solids, soy protein,
sugar. In the 2% or less category, there's: salt, molasses,
hydrogenated vegetable oils, magensium oxide, ferric phosphate, zinc
oxide, niacinamide, copper sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride and folic acid.

So the other 40% has some vegetable protein but is mostly sugar, with
some minimal amount of trans fat, vitamins and minerals added.

This stuff comes in at 15g carb per 2 TB serving as opposed to 6g in
regular peanut butter or 5g in the natural stuff; that's pretty
significant to me as I'm unlikely to eat only 2 TB of peanut butter as a
serving anyways, a quarter jar is more likely!

The label says it's only 12g fat per serving as opposed to 16g in
regular peanut butter. I expect I could accomplish a similar fat
reduction just by pouring the oil off of the natural stuff.

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