We all like natty pb, but would you eat regular pb if you were on a budget?

[Pearson666]

Ex: Kroger Creamy PB (regular)
the nutrition breakdown is about the same as natty pb
2 tbsp - 190cals and etc.

Ingredients: made with roasted peanuts and sugar, contains 2% or less of molasses, fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed, cottonseed and soybean), salt.

Now, there are trans fats in there, as you can see. Would you eat it? How harmful can it be?

[princessk64]

once you go natty you dont go back...

[DarinK]

Ex: Kroger Creamy PB (regular)
the nutrition breakdown is about the same as natty pb
2 tbsp - 190cals and etc.

Ingredients: made with roasted peanuts and sugar, contains 2% or less of molasses, fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed, cottonseed and soybean), salt.

Now, there are trans fats in there, as you can see. Would you eat it? How harmful can it be?

The natural peanut butter I get only cost like 99 cents more than regular. But to answer your question, yes I would eat it.

[Pearson666]

bump for more opinions

[arbit]

Ex: Kroger Creamy PB (regular)
the nutrition breakdown is about the same as natty pb
2 tbsp - 190cals and etc.

Ingredients: made with roasted peanuts and sugar, contains 2% or less of molasses, fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed, cottonseed and soybean), salt.

Now, there are trans fats in there, as you can see. Would you eat it? How harmful can it be?

It if contains hyrdogenated oils, it has transfats.
The transfat amount *per serving* just needs to be less than 1g for them to say 0 g transfats.
I would not eat it.

[maffie2]

I would eat it, no difference imho.

Really? You would DIE or have HORRIBLE HEART DISEASE/get FAT because you eat regular PB instead of natty PB? Give me a break...

[matthor]

i eat the cheapest stuff i can. Hasnt effected me.

[v4lu3s]

i personally would drop peanut butter from my diet. That is just me though, I pretty much try and stick with the least refined available foods. I am pretty much always on a budget though, so peanut butter is an occasional thing anyway.

[Sixpack]

Bump eat the cheapest it will make no diff

I would eat it, no difference imho.

Really? You would DIE or have HORRIBLE HEART DISEASE/get FAT because you eat regular PB instead of natty PB? Give me a break...

[PatMac]

Of course I'd go regular, PB is too good to give up

[TheNewestGuy]

I wouldn't eat it.

I avoid HFCS like the plague.

[getgot211]

I wouldn't eat it.

I avoid HFCS like the plague.

this post is fully retarded for more reason than one.

not the least of which is the fact that PB doesn't have HFCS.

[TheNewestGuy]

Thanks, it was a typo - sorry it was too "retarded" for your tastes.

I meant hydrogenated oils, the other thing I avoid like the plague. The point is the same.

In either case, you can still grind your own peanut butter for cheaper than buying regular stuff at the store.

[axewars]

the reg. stuff ain't gonna kill you in moderation, esp. if it is temporary. in the long run though, i'd personally feel a little on edge about the cumulative effect of the hydrogenated oils...that's my opinion...

I don't know about you guys but I buy off-brand natural peanut butter and it is just as cheap as regular peanut butter. In the midwest we have Kroger and Meijer...the Kroger brand is mighty good and 1.99 a jar

[jfla32033]

smuckers natty pb isnt too pricey. like $3.59 a jar compared to some of the $5 jars i see out there

[2 D]

smuckers natty pb isnt too pricey. like $3.59 a jar compared to some of the $5 jars i see out there

Exactly, when I priced it side by side with other natty p.b.s along with the normal non-natty p.b.s it was very similar in price. I've only had 2 natty p.b. companies thus far, smuckers and the P.B. Company and I gotta say aside from the flavored p.b.s that the P.B. Company offers, Smuckers makes a WAY better natty p.b. in both flavor, texture and length of the product shelf life (my smooth operator seemed to get old quickly).

[muirsy88]

Personally, I eat the reg stuff because 2g of sugar per day isn't going to impact me in any way. I really dont enjoy the taste of the natural pb at all

[TheNewestGuy]

Wow, strong opinions on the pb. I went from green to red from this thread alone.

My only point was it's cheaper and better to grind your own if you can't afford the natty stuff. But thanks for the negs, guys.

[hobscrk777]

They did studies on regular peanut butter and found that the amount of transfat in the entire jar was negligible, not just the amount in one serving.

In other words, go ahead and eat regular if natural is out of your price range.

[jfla32033]

They did studies on regular peanut butter and found that the amount of transfat in the entire jar was negligible, not just the amount in one serving.

In other words, go ahead and eat regular if natural is out of your price range.

who's "they"?

thats a pretty reassuring fact. i'd like to hear the source because it would save me about $2 per week. good research, man

[Struct09]

They did studies on regular peanut butter and found that the amount of transfat in the entire jar was negligible, not just the amount in one serving.

In other words, go ahead and eat regular if natural is out of your price range.

Yep, and I'll even link the study for you

http://www.peanut-institute.org/05-0...-fatty_PR.html

To answer the question, I'd have to be on a pretty tight budget to buy regular PB over natural since there isn't that big of a cost difference. But yeah, I'd eat the regular PB.

[jfla32033]

Yep, and I'll even link the study for you

http://www.peanut-institute.org/05-0...-fatty_PR.html

To answer the question, I'd have to be on a pretty tight budget to buy regular PB over natural since there isn't that big of a cost difference. But yeah, I'd eat the regular PB.

and theres my source haha

[Rogier77]

We don't have natural PB in supermarkets in the Netherlands, so I go with regular. It doesn't have any transfats, so it should be good.

[axewars]

Yep, and I'll even link the study for you

http://www.peanut-institute.org/05-0...-fatty_PR.html

To answer the question, I'd have to be on a pretty tight budget to buy regular PB over natural since there isn't that big of a cost difference. But yeah, I'd eat the regular PB.

Thanks for posting link. Seems to be a reputable source. Rep'd.

I dunno tho, I still prefer the creamy, almost wetness of natural peanut butter...? It just feels better eating it, no? (am I supposed to add "no homo" to that...?)

[liftjunkie06]

NO. There are cheap (generic) natty pb's now.

[Kanji4488]

personally id just eat penuts for the same healthy fats and wash the salt off, penuts are insanly cheap areound here. ( yes typos)

[mrselfde_struct]

abosolutly not.

no.

never.

[baarat]

Hydrogenated oil is your friend in pb but not in anything else LOL. Regardless of how little their is, their isn't a peanut institute website in the world that will ever convince me it's OK to eat. Over a lifetime it'll only add up to a pail full, whatever. Hilariously and ignorant for a nutritional thread to even think. IMO of course.

[depositio]

Whether or not the commercial peanut butters all of you are affectionately referring to as "regular" contains significant amounts of transfats or not is quite beside the point. In the manufacture of processed peanut butter a good deal more is done to completely compromise the nutritional benefits of peanuts. For example: the peanuts are regularly fractionated (removing a lot of the EFAs, though vitamin E in the finished product is apparently unchanged) and bleached to increase the shelf life of the butter (the whole reason that "regular" peanut butter exists in the first place). Do eat it if you want. It's not gonna kill you. But you're getting ripped off no matter how cheap you think it is. I like a lot of dumb things including certain relatives and neighbors.

edit: peanut butter is vastly over-rated around here as a healthy fat source anyway. The only thing it has going for it is price and convenience. There's a lot that is not ideal about it otherwise. I'm not knocking how sweet it is, though!

[We Drowned]

Nothing would stop me from eating peanutbutter...Nothing.