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TranquilTurbulenceWhich one is it: 1. Oh no, it’s American. 2. Oh no, it has some banned chemicals in it.
Banned chemicals
Edit: also, I quickly grabbed it off the shelf at LIDL last week when my entire week was busy. I only realized it was American when my knife easily sunk into it this morning.
Which one?
The EU keeps strict maximum levels for contaminants in foods, including aflatoxins. Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 sets tight contaminant limits, and the EU’s own 2023 summary notes that maximum levels are set at strict levels considered reasonably achievable.
Also, just less extra ingredients.
Ok, so hydrogenated fatty acids are the thing, right? More specifically, random trans fats resulting from the hydrogenation process.
tomkattAmerican here, I just make my own peanut butter in a food processor. The ingredients are: peanuts.
Works for me.
I really really don’t get why not more people do that. It’s like fucken mayonnaise, why buy that shit. Or store bought hollandaise omg I’m fucking throwing up.
I think people may not realize how easy it is. Or maybe a food processor isn’t a common item in every household. I only bought one last year, prior to that I was making peanut butter with a hand blender and that was a pain.
Recall snapple started out as a “healthier” option, which included not having emulsifers etc that kept the juices together. This means it needed shaken before being consumed for optimal flavor.
This was too difficult for the average American consumer so snapple added the emulsifers etc. so people wouldn’t need to checks notes shake thier drink before opening.
If you lick the bottom of a wine cork you’ve had enough emulsifiers for for 20 jars of american peanut butter.
DasusAre you in a habit of licking wine corks?
recursivethinkingWait are we not supposed to be sucking on wine corks? Asking for a friend.
The only ingredients that should be in peanut butter is peanuts. Maybe some salt but it’s better without.
What about whole pieces of pean- oh never mind you already said penauts.
massive_bereavementWhat about that oily thing that gets separated, and mixing it together feels like mixing brown mortar?
BrewchinPalm oil. Great at keeping things like peanut butter mixed. Garbage for the environment.
Guess which choice wins most of the time… 😔
TrackinDaKrakenBuy natural peanut butter, stir it once and keep it in the fridge so it doesn’t separate.
Melllvar…are non-US peanut butters less viscous?
KoboldCoterieNon-US peanut butters typically have only one ingredient (peanuts) and therefore you get peanut oil separating out that needs to be stirred in. American peanut butter (at least the ‘popular’ brands) tend to be so full of preservatives and shit that they hold their state.
Here’s the full list of ingredients for Jif:
Made from Roasted Peanuts and Sugar, Contains 2% or Less of: Molasses, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed and Soybean), Mono and Diglycerides, Salt.
https://www.foodsco.net/p/jif-creamy-peanut-butter/0005150024191
It’s not just peanuts but it’s not really “preservatives and shit” either.
The problem is that much of what Spain sells as peanut butter is built around the European expectation:
- >simpler ingredients
- >fewer sweeteners
- >“natural” separation accepted as normal
The EU keeps strict maximum levels for contaminants in foods, including aflatoxins. Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 sets tight contaminant limits, and the EU’s own 2023 summary notes that maximum levels are set at strict levels considered reasonably achievable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin
Aflatoxins are various poisonous carcinogens and mutagens that are produced by certain molds, especially Aspergillus species such as Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus.
Ace T'KenI don’t get it.
bizarrolandMany US peanut butter manufacturers add emulsifiers and other chemicals into their peanut butter so that it remains homogenous.
The realization is that the person would be eating those emulsifiers, and some people have claimed that they have negative health consequences, which is probable, although I don’t know if they do or not.
which is probable
Why would this be probable? Evidence?
Many things are probable.
I chose that word because it is possible that there could be health issues caused by the emulsifiers in american peanut butters, but also I don’t know if it is.
Probable is an apt word when something isn’t necessarily impossible.
You will also note that I didn’t use the word likely, because I can’t say whether it is likely or not.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞“Plausible” is what you wanted. “Probable” means “likely”.
I meant it in the secondary definition of the term, which is “establishing a probability”.
Plausible is also a good word for it, but probable is still apt
This is the first time I’ve heard that definition. It seems like a niche definition that can easily result in misunderstandings
That’s why just buying peanuts and a food processor is the way to go and just make the amount of peanut butter you need when you need it.
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It’s very convenient but terrible for you.
Was wondering whatever happened to the realization that hydrogenated oils were bad for you.
https://www.fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-completes-final-administrative-actions-partially-hydrogenated-oils-foods
Love my unprocessed peanut butter, but the processed stuff is great for making Alton Brown’s peanut butter fudge.
https://youtu.be/ZbkC_7wQKgA
Can anyone explain this to me?
I think it is because they use an insane amount of shortening to keep it the consistency of, well, shortening.
Palm oil is used to stabilize the product. Palm oil is problematic for environmental reasons. Similar to other foodstuffs farmed industrially there are other ethical problems as well.
The concerns often expressed for peanuts, palm oil, and other foods high in saturated fats, are mostly related to purported health effects related to their consumption. i.e., people think they’re bad for you to eat. Whether they are or are not is still deliberated and, I think, quite beside the point.
We need to stop shoving palm oil into things.