Our All-Time Favorite Smooth Peanut Butter
Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Julia Collin Davison to a tasting of creamy peanut butter.
Read the full taste test of smooth peanut butter:
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I don’t like Jack Bishop, he’s always condescending about everything. I guess his segments aren’t as bad as when the other guy used to host because it always seemed he was badly flirting with him 😆 Choose what you want, ignore Jack lol 🤷🏾♂️
Jif
I thought this was BS! Jif is rated best overall for nutrition by most experts.
During the pandemic, our local grocery stores were frequently out of JIF, but the Skippy shelf remained full. I think JIF definitely wins the popularity contest in our locality; despite the fact that there seem to be 50 different nut butters available.
Jiff is the best
Smuckers is still my favorite.
Love you JIF
Once I tried Velvet PB, I had to break up with Jif. Sorry, Jif. It's not you it's me.
Hello, would love for you to review Sweet Ella's Organic Peanut Butter and Cream Nut from Koeze
Jiff beats them all.
That’s it?
Everybody hates a winner… And the winner is Skippy 😉
Fake as hell
Jiff
Jiff blows away Skippy.
Forgot to mention Peter Pan is my second favorite.
My favorite is Jif but I buy extra crunchy not creamy. Skippy got sued a few years ago for too much sugar and not enough peanuts.
This show has never been the same without Chris at the helm. Sorry, just doesn’t do it for me
so the bottom line is you need to buy the toxic trans fat PB if you want the best cookies and peanut "taste"
I grew up with Jif and have sworn by it for decades. About 10 years ago, out of curiosity, I tried Skippy. I now prefer Skippy hands down; it tastes more like peanuts to me.
Kroger brand (natural) – is nothing but peanuts, peanut oil and salt. But personally, – I like the Kroger crunchy (natural, of course!) I have a friend who is crazy about Skippy Honey Roasted.
Jiff natural is made with molasses. It's the best tasting in the lineup.
Adding palm oil to anything is an ecological disaster and borders on criminal due to the amount of land clearing that has been undertaken for the growing of the base product.
Adams has always been my favorite (it used to be made near my home in Tacoma, WA). Delicious natural butter. I think Smucker's purchased the brand some years ago.
Jif is my favorite. Skippy has as much flavor as wax to me.
I actually like Whole Foods 365 brand. The chunky one. And I'm not a Whole Foods pusher, especially since they became Amazon.
Jasons
Skippy way to dry
I grew up on Jif creamy, and later in life tried Adams to be a bit healthier but never did like it. Eventually found Skippy Super Chunk and love it.
“This is terrible”
“You have insulted my family”
No Kraft?
I'm a choosy mutha, so I choose JIF.
I buy only peanut butter with peanuts and salt.
“Best” and most healthful are very different things.
There's only one type of peanut butter – the ones that have two ingredients: peanuts and salt. Everything else has emulsifiers, sugars, low quality oil swapped for the peanut oil. If it's not just peanuts and salt, you're eating peanut flavored cake frosting.
There really are only four healthy oils: olive, avocado, coconut and walnut. Walnut is not for good for cooking or pan frying. Palm oil is a really bad choice. It isn't healthy and it is causing deforestation and loss of natural habitat. Most "vegetable" oils are made through artificial processes that involve emulsifiers and extreme heat. Good oils come from naturally fatty sources that are easier to convert to oil. Real lard from organically raised livestock is also a decent choice for frying.
I love hearing about peanut butter, I really do. I'm just not sure that a blind taste test of 3 wildly different peanut butters is that interesting. Wouldn't you like to do a taste of 3 hydrogenated PB's all at once? And 3 "naturals" all at once? and so on . . .
Bummed that I don't see Santa Cruz Organics! The best for the natural types, in my opinion.
They need to try Earth Balance Coconut oil peanutbutter. Stuff is delicious!😊
Smuckers guy here and I'm with Jack….I hate sugar in my peanut butter.
Jack is starting to hunch over. Makes me sad watching the people I followed for years grow old
I hate peanut butter. Ugh.
Peter pan crunchy with strawberry preserves on bunny bread(local bread)
Peter Pan
I grew up eating Skippy b/c that's what mom bought. But I have been buying my own for over 30 years and it is always Smuckers. I like that there is only peanuts and salt. It's messy to eat, but I'm not getting any sugar or artificial crap. And forget about the sandwiches. I just eat it straight from the jar with a spoon.
Peter Pan, all the oil and sugar. #1
God bless Annette Funicello, Mouseter R.I.P. Love Skippy.
I like how the "nuttiest" peanut butter probably has the least amount of peanuts.
Health wise, the best PB is added sugar and hydrogenated oil free. Valencia peanuts are the best because they have the lowest amount of aflatoxin. This is a mold by-product that is hard on the liver. Trader Joe's brand and Kirkland (Costco) brand use Valencia peanuts.