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Know your food series-Peanut butter
I am always interested in how people perceive food and what is good and what is bad. In this inaugural post of what I hope to be a weekly series, I will discuss peanut butter. If some of these entries are old news to you or if you have further to contribute, please excuse my simpleness and feel free to add.
The food industry goes out of their way to confuse the public enough to buy whatever they need to sell. From buzzwords like “non GMO” to “gluten free”, they hope the average person latches onto something simply because they see this label. I see people in the stores all the time, reading and conversing out labels yet having no idea what they are even discussing.
How many of us have seen labels so ridiculous that we soon expect to see a bottle of oil labeled “zero carbs” or a steak that states it is “gluten free”? This may seem like a joke to some of us but I assure you, many folks would fall for this ploy.
My first entry, Peanut Butter, is all too misunderstood. From my friends feeding their kids JIF or Skippy or Alladino in Mexico, thinking they are giving a nutritious item to their children...all the way to bodybuilders eating “all natural” peanut butter, You will see the nefarious word games played with food.
Peanut butter should be simple. It should contain: peanuts. OK, maybe salt as an ingredient too. But that’s it folks. I am sure we are all familiar with the chemical soup known as the popular brands like JIF, et al, and this is why we gravitate toward “all natural”.
The thing is, “all natural” just means that the product hasn’t been tampered with regarding hydrogenation and/or preservatives. I won’t bore you hydrogenation and shelf life. Hopefully everyone is wise to these practices at this point.
I do want to point out that “all natural” peanut butter is anything but natural, meaning a butter made from peanuts.
Peanut oil is a very valuable commodity. It is pressed out of the peanut to be sold at a high cost to the pharmaceutical and food industry. Processors are left with very dry peanut mash/powder which had little value compared to the oil for the longest time. Then the fitness industry sparked a new trend for new products like PB Fit and these so-called “all natural” peanut butters.
To recover the consistency of real peanut butter, manufacturers began adding palm kernel oil (now just called palm oil) to peanut mash. This had not only the benefit of recovering some peanut waste to a salable product, but also gave them a use for palm oil, also a by-product of other food production.
People love it! It not only makes them think they are consuming a natural, healthy product, they are also happy that their peanut butter doesn’t need constant stirring.
Why is that? Because palm oil is one of the few, along with coconut oil, that is a vegetable derived, saturated fat. Not something most of us want to consume. At least not from sources or foods that shouldn’t normally contain saturated fats.
I sure wouldn’t want to eat peanut butter containing lard. This isn’t exactly the same thing but in my opinion, not that far off.
I consume about 3 tablespoons of peanut butter every day. I don’t know about you folks but I want my peanut butter label to say
Ingredients: Peanuts.
That’s it.
Last edited by Enigma; 07-27-2019 at 03:03 PM.
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I love peanut butter. I get the stuff made in store and it’s only ingredient is: peanuts
I like buying one ingredient items. A lot of clients, that are try to lose weight/fat; this is a good way to do it.
Max
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Based on the lack of popularity of this proposed series, I won't bother with another.
Good thing I guess because I was going to school everyone on fish. As in those nasty fishes many BB eat.
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Originally Posted by
Enigma
Based on the lack of popularity of this proposed series, I won't bother with another.
Good thing I guess because I was going to school everyone on fish. As in those nasty fishes many BB eat.
I would appreciate more articles. I cannot get enough. A lot of times it is just timing. Please keep them coming, even if it’s just for me. You have been in this earth longer than me so I want that knowledge!!!
Max
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You sure? Do you eat tilapia and swai? Lol!
How about this Pargo my vecino caught off the beach...IMG_0371.JPG
Last edited by Enigma; 08-09-2019 at 06:48 PM.
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Originally Posted by
Enigma
You sure? Do you eat tilapia and swai? Lol!
How about this Pargo my vecino caught off the beach...
IMG_0371.JPG
Damn! That’s a fish man!! I love fishing!’
Max
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You can pry the jif and my pistol out of my cold dead hands.
Do one on fish or something else, I like reading this stuff. Everyone knows talipia is shit though. I'm on that hand caught redneck fish diet.
Max, what stores have you found the homemade 1 ingredient peanut butter? I'd like to try that.
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Originally Posted by
SloppyJ
You can pry the jif and my pistol out of my cold dead hands.
Do one on fish or something else, I like reading this stuff. Everyone knows talipia is shit though. I'm on that hand caught redneck fish diet.
Max, what stores have you found the homemade 1 ingredient peanut butter? I'd like to try that.
Costco brand peanut butter. Cheap too.
I'm too lazy to fish but I love doing it. The free beach fishing here requires a mile plus walk on the sand and back. I actually had some of my little fishing buddies offer to carry me they felt so bad for me. I need a quad.
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Know your food series-Peanut butter
Originally Posted by
SloppyJ
You can pry the jif and my pistol out of my cold dead hands.
Do one on fish or something else, I like reading this stuff. Everyone knows talipia is shit though. I'm on that hand caught redneck fish diet.
Max, what stores have you found the homemade 1 ingredient peanut butter? I'd like to try that.
I use Whole Foods or Fresh Market type stores.
Like these:Safeway/ Fred Meyer/ Kroger/Smiths, etc :usually in deli area
Max
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We don't have a Costco but I do have a fresh market and a whole foods not too far away. I'll go check that out. My son can eat his weight in peanut butter and I would like to get him to try this. I'll put the hammer down on it too.
Enigma, that looks like a snapper, is that what it is? Mmmmm snapper, I better go defrost some so I can make it this weekend.
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