PSA: some peanut butter contains xylitol that can be deadly to animals.
Really?
I’ve never seen a peanut butter with it. Is there a brand you know of that uses it?
I’m trying to think of a reason to use xylitol in peanut butter, and since I’m of the “no sugar in peanut butter” school, and the only people I know who use xylitol is bodybuilders, I’m just all confused!
I’m just going to paste this comment here since they answered it better than I could:
What other jobs are the squirrels coming after!?
Data center wiring technician?
Are they batter at it then ferrets?
I’ll bring my largest vat of peanut butter to support this operation.
Sorting nuts in a chocolate factory?
They would just eat them and hide the rest away
What peanut butter has xylitol? Fucking gross and should not legally be peanut butter.
Probably the American version, as with most of their “food”, full of shit ingredients that don’t need to be there.
It is in European foods too
It looks like the ones that are considered more “healthy”
• “Sugar-Free” or “No Sugar Added” • “Keto-Friendly” or “Low-Carb” • “High-Protein” • "Natural Sweeteners
A naturally occurring sugar alcohol in plants, commercial xylitol is derived from birch trees. Xylitol is extracted into a white powder that looks and tastes similar to sugar. It is not harmful to people, save for mild diarrhea or intestinal discomfort when consumed in large amounts. The sugar substitute can be helpful to diabetics and those who wish to chew gum but have issues or concerns with cavities.
Site that checks the brands: https://www.preventivevet.com/xylitol-products-toxic-for-dogs
But why? Peanut butter is naturally sweet.
Some of us like our High Fructose Corn Syrup, dessert level sweet peanut butter, that also doesn’t separate, thank you very much! Is it bad for me? Almost assuredly! Do I care when I’m eating it with a spoon? Almost not at all! You will pry my Skippy from cold, dead, somewhat greasy hands!
You’re right, but a lot of people don’t know that you can go to most hippie stores and get fresh made peanut, cashew, etc. butter.
Hippie stores, nothing. Most Kroger brand, Kroger owned stores have them. Many Albertson’s, and Winn Dixie’s also have them (Kroger owned, but not branded stores)
That doesn’t even include Meijer’s or Costco which also have those machines pretty regularly.
Obviously, Whole Foods is gonna have them.
The sad part is that you’d do far better financially speaking in most cases (peanuts being kinda iffy here in the US specifically because peanuts are so damn cheap that it is frequently cheaper to just buy really expensive organic no-additive peanut butter,) by buying unroasted nuts, tossing them into a dry wok or a dry baking sheet, and roasting them. At that point you just need to throw the nuts into a food processor, and you get cheap, organic, nut-butter with absolutely no artificial preservatives or artificial additives. A tiny dash (1/4 tsp per cup of nut butter at most,) of normal table salt, and a tiny pinch (1/16 tsp per cup of nut butter,) of MSG will make your homemade nut-butter, “tastier,” than any store bought nut-butter.
If you’re grinding a low sugar nut such as almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, or macadamias, then you may want to add a tiny pinch (1/16 to 1/8 tsp depending on taste,) of your preferred sugar to the butter, but I would taste first before adding sugar. The salt is kinda necessary for proper tastebud activation for most foods, not just savory foods.
Not really related to your comment, but does anyone else hate salt in food? Wondering if it’s just me or not. Multiple people have told me it’s “required” for things to taste good; but to me it just makes things taste like salt
Imagine eating a whole plain teaspoon of straight salt. That’s what it tastes like to me when added to a meal. It doesn’t “bring out” flavour, it smothers it
I think it’s mainly you. I don’t use much salt in cooking but sometimes its necessary and actually does bring out flavor.
Maybe you have too much salt and this is just your body rejecting it? I tried doing a few multi day fasts a while ago and everyone talks about how you need salt so I was consuming salty drinks with mio to mask it and it was aweful. Then (on someone’s fecommendation) I stopped doing that and instead waited a while then just ate a pinch of salt… tasted great. When my body wanted it, it was taaty; when my body didn’t want it, it was gross.
It doesn’t “bring out” flavour, it smothers it.
Salt doesn’t bring out flavour in general, people who think that are misguided. Salt is the flavour! And it tastes damn good, also why a lot of people like the smell of ocean breeze.
I mean people lick their salt lamps, you’re obviously the minority here.
Yeah I suppose I am. I just don’t understand it; to me it tastes like a strong harsh chemical and kind of burns
A standard food processor does a pretty good job too!
Xylitol is definitely not safe for consumption like that holy shit
