Just went to check the contents of Con Agra's Peter Pan Peanut Butter and that section of the website is down, presumably because their web elves are scrambling to get something together re salmonella, their product, and why consumers should continue to buy their stuff once the danger has passed.
So I'm guessing here, but I think their product at its most perfect contains sugar, extra oils of the partially hydrogenated variety, and other utterly unneeded extras.
Why are parents buying this stuff for their kids in the first place?!! Try a p.butter that contains peanuts, people---you don't even need to have a salty one. My jar label reads: "dry roasted peanuts."
Try taking the kids to a store that has those peanut-butter making machines and the cute little clear plastic containers. Justin and Gillian will love watching the peanuts up top turn into the thick gloppy looking p.nut butter that coils into the container. And if they want to make poop jokes, so be it!
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Posted by: in home child care | August 30, 2012 at 01:42 AM
It's the sugar part that particularly riles me, I think--( Full disclosure:when I was a kid we were Skippy people...)
Spreadability? Don't think that has been a problem of late--with 7 inches of snow in my backyard a day ago, and gas heating costs huge, I am leaving the PB out on the counter of my cool, cool hacienda. It spreads, right up until the point that my whole grain, O transfats cracker snaps.
Posted by: foodie | February 16, 2007 at 08:11 AM
You're a little tough on PB, Foodie! My jars say "0 percent transfat" but they also contain either "fully hydrogenated oil" or partially hydrogenated oil--but less than .5 percent.
Skippy Natural contains: roasted peanuts, sugar, palm oil, and salt.
I do use the kind you have to refrigerate, but they really don't taste very good, and when I tried to use one in a recipe the other day that required cooking, it tasted awful. So I only use them for savory cooking, i.e. Thai sauces.
But for pb and j, I must stick to commercial brands, for spreadability as well as taste.
Posted by: KathyF | February 16, 2007 at 04:19 AM