Peanut Butter

Why would they not use peanut oil in peanut butter. Hello! Bunch of friggin' geniuses over here. 

That's uncalled for, in my opinion, in a simple thread about peanut butter.

Yes Sunpat for me too. I used to buy the Creamy style but lately havent been able to find it so Im back to buying the extra smooth.
Didnt know you could get American peanut butter at Sainsburys!

That's uncalled for, in my opinion, in a simple thread about peanut butter.

That's what I was thinking too peedal.   

Why would they not use peanut oil in peanut butter. Hello! Bunch of friggin' geniuses over here.

It's maybe because some of us 'friggin' geniuses' understand that peanut oil is very *rarely* (if ever) used in American peanut butter.  They use soy or other types of veg extract as stabilizer.

It also makes no sense to use peanut oil in peanut butter because the economics are that peanut oil is way more valuable as a pharmaceutical component.

Like garry said, from the Skippy site itself:

What are the ingredients in Skippy peanut butter? 
Skippy peanut butter contains over 90 percent select roasted peanuts. It also contains extremely small amounts of vegetable oil stabilizers to improve smoothness and prevent separation, plus a small amount of sugars and salt to enhance the peanut flavor. For additional information on ingredients in Skippy products visit our Nutritional Facts section.
 

NB  Underlining added by me.

i like the whole earth no sugar added crunch and smooth peanut butter.

it's what DH has always eaten and, quite honestly, i can't eat skippy or jiff anymore because i like the natural stuff better!   

It's even more surprising to encounter the curious fact that the peanut is not a member of the nut family.

isn't it a legume?

I have to admit that I actually like Sunpat better than any other brand including the ones in the States (which if you live near St Johns Wood you can find at the local grocer)...but I do tend to like different stuff from most people (for example I HATE fast food stuff including Taco Bell)...

Me too!

I must be one of the strange ones since I like peanut butter better here.

Me too!

 

That's uncalled for, in my opinion, in a simple thread about peanut butter.

And I don't see where you get off turning the thread into an attack on my opinion about british peanut butter. Did I use profanity? Did I unintentionally belittle someone else's opinion?  I didn't know there was such a strong a pc brigade on this board.

I think some people may have taken your comment as being insulting to British people.  I'm sure it was unintentional though.

It's maybe because some of us 'friggin' geniuses' understand that peanut oil is very *rarely* (if ever) used in American peanut butter.  They use soy or other types of veg extract as stabilizer.

It also makes no sense to use peanut oil in peanut butter because the economics are that peanut oil is way more valuable as a pharmaceutical component.

The brand that I dearly miss from back home, which is widely available in the states at nearly any grocery store you walk into, is a natural "whole" peanut butter. The use of the term "whole" conveys to me that its main composition is from the peanut family. They sell "whole" peanut butter here in the UK but here "whole" only seems to mean that they don't add sugar or all the wonderful preservatives, partially hydrogenated oils, and stabilizers and god knows what other chems.  For that I am grateful. The downfall is that, instead of peanuts, peanut oil, and salt, they use palm or some other non-peanut oil. To me, that's not "whole" and the taste is nowhere near comparable to what I consider to be real peanut butter. It's not even in the same ballpark.

As for economics of peanut butter in the UK and the pharmaceutical components of peanut oil, I confess to know nothing. But, as mentioned above, the un-peanut butter they sell here is quite cheap and my guess is it wouldn't cost much more to sell an unadulterated version.  Peanut oil is a high quality oil. What most of the british pnut butter uses - and skippy and jif - is some of the lowest quality, cheapest oil you can possibly purchase. 

Have you ever thought about buying a blender or nut grinder and making your own? I'm not trying to be funny here, serious suggestion from someone who doesn't get excited about peanut butter in any way, shape or form (except those cookies that Marsbar brought to the 4th July picnic - divine!).

Okily dokily people.  Let's stop arguing about peanut butter of all things and have a poll!  There seems to be a wide opinion of peanut butter here-I'm a Skippy girl myself(and so are my English kids).   

The brand that I dearly miss from back home, which is widely available in the states at nearly any grocery store you walk into, is a natural "whole" peanut butter. The use of the term "whole" conveys to me that its main composition is from the peanut family. They sell "whole" peanut butter here in the UK but here "whole" only seems to mean that they don't add sugar or all the wonderful preservatives, partially hydrogenated oils, and stabilizers and god knows what other chems.  For that I am grateful. The downfall is that, instead of peanuts, peanut oil, and salt, they use palm or some other non-peanut oil. To me, that's not "whole" and the taste is nowhere near comparable to what I consider to be real peanut butter. It's not even in the same ballpark.

What you're looking for is widely available here, in health food stores and in some supermarkets.  Meridian Foods is one example of a company that does a range of pure peanut butters. Direct link to their range of nut butters here.