It’s not nearly as much sugar added as I expected. Jif, which seems to be the most popular brand, has 2 grams of added sugar in a 33 gram serving, for a total of 3 grams of sugar (peanuts seem to naturally produce some sugar). Comparing that to Costco’s Kirkland Select natural peanut butter, which only has peanuts and salt for ingredients, a 32 gram serving has 1 gram of total sugar. So the total sugar Jif adds is twice as much as would naturally be present, but still makes up only 6% of the serving. It’s sweeter, but not dramatically sweeter. It’s not like it’s been turned into Nutella, which has 19 grams of added sugar in a 37 gram serving, or 51% of the serving.
Comment on Is a peanut butter sandwich a balanced meal?
Muscar@discuss.online 4 weeks agoIt will never stop being disturbing that there’s sugar in peanut butter in the US. If I didn’t know it was true I’d think it was a joke. Outside the US peanut butter is just peanuts and salt, that’s it.
jqubed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
The bread has about three times as much sugar in it too
So basically to answer OP’s question -
No. That’s dessert 😂
QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
In my experience it’s usually just peanuts. That’s the only kind I buy. You can find it with sugar and / or salt but that’s a minority.
It really is weird how US has to ruin every kind of food to make it more unhealthy. All this while not having a real healthcare too.