Aibu - Whole Earth Peanut Butter & sodding Palm Oil

[Fiveredbricks]

I'm 99.9% certain this never contained palm oil. Yet now it does? What the eff and geoff is wrong with having PEANUT OIL in Peanut butter?!

Other than the fact they can obviously replace it with bloody Palm Oil and sell the peanut oil on for a profit 🙄

Didn't it used to just be peanuts in it? Wasn't that their whole marketing strategy?

Now to get palm oil free Peanut Butter I have to pay £5 for a jar the size of a small Marmite pot 😭

DD makes her own nut butters. They are delicious and she has fun doing it!

Morrison's own is 100% peanuts. It's lovely, needs mixing every time you use it though. It costs around £2

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They do smooth too.

We use meridian. There was a lovely brand - I think it was called the New York peanut butter co (we just called it the monkey peanut butter) but they stopped selling it in the uk (I wrote to the MD to complain). In the states the Wholefoods 365 is excellent but it hasn’t made it over here yet.

Booo.

Whole earth has always had palm oil, that’s why it’s the firm texture. All the palm oil free ones are more runny- I pour the excess oil off first as otherwise it doesn’t stay on a cracker! Sustainable palm oil is debatable, but as a pp said, probably better than avocados for instance.

They did a product test on here a couple of years ago. I mentioned it was shitty marketing it clearly as healthy and planet friendly and also containing palm oil. I got absolutely slaughtered by a load of mner’s telling me that unless I only drank my own piss and never used electricity then I was talking bollocks.

I make my own almond butter, it's easy if you have a decent food processor. Must try it with peanuts too.

Biona brand is palm oil free.

We’ve been off palm oil for years - before we knew about the orangutans. It was because it’s horribly bad for you.

Tesco have just introduced a 100% peanut butter, just 100% peanuts, nothing else.
£1.50

Whole Earth does a 100% peanut version. Perhaps you’ve just bought a different jar to your usual?

@scienceistruth I love the Morrison’s 100% peanut butter! I get the Tesco 100% one too, but it not as runny as Morrison’s. Both brands are relatively cheap and no palm oil.

Are they organic?

Another vote for Pip and Nut. Although we eat the almond butter rather peanut butter.

Another vote for the Morrisons 100% one! It's inexpensive and delicious.

Whole earth has had palm oil for ages. Sun pat doesn't, and they do a no added sugar version too.

Aldi peanut butter is 100% peanuts and reasonably priced. They also do cashew & almond butter, all 100% nuts and much cheaper than meridian 😋

No paml oil is sustainable!!! Not in the any real sense of the word.

I second Tesco own brand, just peanuts and nothing else, and it's nice, £1.50 I think.

I buy Pics in our smallish Tesco in Devon. No palm oil, sustainable or otherwise.

@chemenger

Sainsbury's say - I have contacted our technologists and received the following information. The palm oil is used on the beef to soften the fat at lower temperatures and this ensures the beef is malleable when it is being used. There are few oils which perform well at low temperatures, and we are currently looking for alternatives

Whole earth definitely had palm oil (fat fingers just typed psalm lion 😂) in 3 years ago when I weaned dd onto solids; I remember being very surprised when I read the label.

Aldi do 100% peanut and almond butters. Just as nice as meridian.

Pic’s is the most amazing peanut butter. I’m usually a crunchy fan, but their smooth is so creamy I prefer that. I used to get Whole Earth and Meridian, but Pic’s trumps them both.

God, if you think palm oil is bad you really shouldn’t be having anything to do with almonds!