• Nemoder@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    I misread that title as Humans and peanut butter are close relatives. Was starting to think I was nuts.

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      4 hours ago

      If you’ve only had Sabra, I wouldn’t blame you. There are many brands and homemade can be among the best.

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      7 hours ago

      I was like that. I really didnt like some. I got some beetroot hummus and it changed me, Ill put it on anything. Now I love the stuff, roast veg on hummus and flatbread is bliss.

      Baba ganoush too

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      8 hours ago

      Nutella can never even be inferred to be a nut butter lol. It is literally >50% sugar and palm oil. Only 13% hazelnuts. In 2017 they reduced the chocolate solids further and added more sugar and more skimmed milk powder. Almost half its calories is from sugar.

      The traditional hazelnut butter was 71.5% hazelnut paste and 19.5% chocolate, but nutella doesn’t even have enough cocoa powder to have the label of “chocolate cream” in many countries.

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    1 day ago

    I was going to make a joke about a hummus and jelly sandwich, but now that I think about it, that might be pretty good.

    Thinking about a tart cherry jam with hummus on a pita.

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    I’ve used peanut butter in place of tahini to make humm-ish before. Not bad at all.

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      Yep. It’s the recommended substitute if you have no tahini on hand. There is a slight change in flavor profile, but if you add enough garlic, no one is likely to notice.

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      Yeah, I use unsweetened peanut butter (effectively just mushed peanuts) in lots of recipes where tahini would normally be used.

      I still need to figure out, if I’m using tahini wrong. 😅
      Sesame always tastes bitter to me, as does tahini. Peanut butter doesn’t…

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        What do you mean by “unsweetened peanutbutter”? There’s sweetened peanutbutter? Is that some kraft foods shit?

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          In the US most brands peanut butters have added sugar. It looks like you might be in Canada and I wouldn’t be surprised if the same is true there.

          I think the dominant flavor is still salty, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had Jif or Skippy.

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          Just check the ingredient list on the packaging, if they have it. At least here in the Netherlands, “normal” peanut butter contains more palm fat than peanut and it contains quite some sugar as well. I can taste the sugar and dislike it, but then I grew up with “100%” peanut butter, containing only peanuts and nothing else, so I may be used to something weird compared to my countrymen.

          From what I’ve gathered, peanut butter in the USA contains a lot of sugar, too.

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            Peanut butter can have extra sugars due other ingredients. Natural peanut butters do not. Interestingly enough, Walmart brand (which is about as cheap as you can get) peanut butter has 4g sugar. So 4g sugars for Walmart vs 1g sugars for organic 100% peanuts. It’s more, but not a whole lot more.

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          Well, whenever I’ve talked about this in the past, there was always someone who asked “You put (sweet) peanut butter into your savory food?!”.

          Wikipedia also says that it commonly contains sweeteners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter

          But yeah, not sure if that’s maybe specifically a thing in the US. They do love to put sugar into everything and I just came across this article, which mentions that when PB&Js became popular in the US, sugar was still seen as good: https://www.thetakeout.com/why-americans-love-peanut-butter-best-vs-rest-of-world-1850648598/

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            Interesting. When I’ve tried pb&j for the first time (during the aughts), I thought regular peanutbutter complemented ham (or marmalade) really well already. Maybe even better with some salt.

            Mixing sweet with more sweet is a very kids thing to do.

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      Bad hummus is. Good hummus will have other ingredients like garlic and lemon.

      Peanut butter is the opposite. Good peanut butter is just ground peanuts. Bad peanut butter includes a bunch of random garbage like sugar and palm oil. You know peanut butter is good if it has oil on top at the store.