The Best Peanut Butter for Crunchy Peanut Butter Lovers
Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Julia to a tasting of crunchy peanut butter.
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Smooth Jif, extra crunchy Peter Pan
Funny how they missed the fact that hydrogenated oils also harden your arteries and can lead to heart and circulation problems. But hey, Skippy pays the bills LOL
I can do smooth or crunchy. But I'm a shameless Hydrogenated guy.
She joined the Skippy World Order!!!
Bow before Skippy!!!
Wow🤩 😁 I grew up on Skippy and Jif peanut butter brands & I love them both. I don’t eat much of the other brands. 👏
Teddies is delicious
Get natural peanut butter compare to number of peanuts in EXTRA chunky to prove there's more peanuts unnatural peanut butter as convince buyers to buy the one that is damaging to their health. Logical. I eat Jif myself but I don't go tell 1.48 million people and followers that trust that advice to buy it over natural. Geez
I knew there was something wrong with Jack. Chunky F'n Peanut Butter https://youtu.be/5U66KlqJPGo
smooth peanut butter is
for people with no teeth..
..I've never bought it, on purpose.
I live in Thailand where there are fewer choices. There are two, fortunately, Skippy and Jif. You're paying a lot less for PB in America. The size like in the video is about $8 in my neck of the woods
I prefer creamy peanut butter because it goes further. The creaminess makes it easier to spread so you can cover any surface you spread it on easier. I use Crunchy only for cookies both drop & bar. All the Best, All the Time RMH/Ohio
1 TBS Skippy Super Chunk (or Jif) + press on a few chocolate chips = instant Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
Can't beat Skippy chunky or creamy, it's what I grew up on.
Skippy SuperChunk! But I get the Natural… and sometimes the No Added Sugar. I don't really hate the Jif (any non-hydrogenated PB is good PB), but I'm not fond of the molasses flavor.
If I were making, say, a PB Cheesecake, I think I would prefer the creamy.
Skippy creamy and super chunky is/are the best rated peanut butters on ATK.
Jiff Crunchy team here!
The exrea crunchy can be very difficult to spread and often does o/lend land h w&ywehave ready. Also, many young kids do not want crunchy.
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 (they only carry smooth) use Valencia peanuts.
Laura Scudders is the best peanut butter. Only peanuts & salt. It has better flavor than other natural peanut butters.
Skippy & Jif have too much sugar and is too sweet for my pallet.
One of the great bargains at the super market for what it provides.
Creamy is okay for pb&j sandwich but otherwise is crunchy all the way.
imo
CB's Nuts kills all these.
imo
Did they say which peanut butter had all those peanuts?
Sorry Teddy is the best I leave the jar upside down so I don’t have too much oil mixed in
I always buy Laura Scudder's Nutty All Natural, Old Fashioned Peanut Butter. Just peanuts and less than 1% salt. Great right out of the jar!
JIF the best creamy kind I love with strawberry smuckers😋
Peter Pan is so bad that they didn’t even bother to include it in this tasting lol
Can't stand sweetened PB. Adam's is the best hands down.
I only use Jiff crunchy.