Peanut butter (thelemmy.club)
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[โ€“] 52 points 6 months ago* (13 children)

American here, I just make my own peanut butter in a food processor. The ingredients are: peanuts.

Works for me.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 6 months ago

    I think people may not realize how easy it is. Or maybe a food processor isnโ€™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.

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    [โ€“] 38 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Which one is it:

    1. Oh no, itโ€™s American.
    2. Oh no, it has some banned chemicals in it.
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  • [โ€“] [S] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [โ€“] [S] 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.gamintraveler.com/2026/03/01/why-you-cant-really-find-american-peanut-butter-in-spain-and-most-of-europe/

    The EU keeps strict maximum levels for contaminants in foods, including aflatoxins. Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 sets tight contaminant limits, and the EUโ€™s own 2023 summary notes that maximum levels are set at strict levels considered reasonably achievable.

    Also, just less extra ingredients.

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Sure, but the no-stir is no-stir by virtue of a Crisco infusion. Vegetable shortening. White, solid at room temperature, processed fat.

    Stir peanut butter is just mashed up peanuts and some salt. Itโ€™s glorious.

    And itโ€™s straight up monounsaturated fat. Omega 6.

    The taste is amazing. I say this as an American. Stir peanut butter is the best peanut butter. Adamโ€™s is the best imo.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Omega 6 is only good is you've overconsumed Omega 3 and you need more O6 to bring them back to thr ideal ratio.

    With the "standard 1st world diet" of today you are very likely overconsuming O6 in the first place.

    Either way, still better than Crisco.

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    [โ€“] 17 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    American peanut butter? My friend, there is only one brand making decent peanut butter:

    But I'm out of that, too.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The peanut butter shop that's in a few towns has one with lemon grass and chilli. I usually bring a few jars home of that one whenever I'm in Holland

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Peanut butter... shop? My supermarketed American brain cannot comprehend this

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    The only ingredients that should be in peanut butter is peanuts. Maybe some salt but it's better without.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    What about whole pieces of pean- oh never mind you already said penauts.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What about that oily thing that gets separated, and mixing it together feels like mixing brown mortar?

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Palm oil. Great at keeping things like peanut butter mixed. Garbage for the environment.

    Guess which choice wins most of the time... ๐Ÿ˜”

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    [โ€“] 10 points 6 months ago

    I don't get it :(

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    If you lick the bottom of a wine cork you've had enough emulsifiers for for 20 jars of american peanut butter.

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    [โ€“] 8 points 6 months ago

    Buy natural peanut butter, stir it once and keep it in the fridge so it doesn't separate.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This is the first time I hear of no-stir peanut butter and my first question is whatโ€™s the problem with stirring it? Why did someone need to invent a no-stir version in the first place???

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Pfft, American peanut butter doesn't even have garlic in it.

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