Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store
4grams@awful.systems 1 week ago
This shit drives me up a wall. I try to only buy peanut butter made out of peanuts, so for years now I’ve been buying “natural” peanut butter. I recently noticed however that 100% “natural” doesn’t mean shit as all the natural brands are loaded with palm oil. I honestly might have to start making my own.
It sucks because my family treats me like an insane person when I look at the ingredients and nutrition of the food stuff we buy. Food culture in the US is awful, just awful.
Natural doesn’t mean jack shit in a food context.
Unless you are buying fresh roasted unsalted peanuts crushed directly in front of you in a peanut crusher, you’re getting shit.: you’re getting hydraulically fractured peanut meal which transforms the proteins, then they separate out the valuable peanut oil and replace it with soybean oil or palm kernel oil.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Yeah it’s awful.
I actually found the best peanut butter at a local store. They have a machine that looks like a drink dispenser but it’s full of different kinds of peanuts- you grab a jar and push the button and it grinds the peanuts into peanut butter right there in front of you. Resulting machine looks something like this.
There’s a few different options like plain, honey, spicy, etc. I just get the plain one and stir in some salt when I get home.
If you let it sit for a while it separates (the oil comes to the top and solids sink) but you just stir it up and it’s fine.
Funny thing is- flavor is actually a good bit better than most of what you get in the jar. And there’s zero bullshit, just peanuts and salt to taste which are all you need for great peanut butter.