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Peanut Butter is a staple in anyone’s kitchen from PB&J sandwiches to all kinds of different desserts. But as with most foods now a days there are several types of peanut butters on the market, I am only going to talk about two different types, which are natural and regular peanut butters, the key difference being between them are what’s in the ingredients.
Regular Peanut Butter contains hydrogenated oils, which are not good for your health in any way. Hydrogenated oils have high levels of trans fat the problem with that is trans fats are not from nature they are a transmogrified version of normal fatty acids. What this means is it’s a man made fat and quite possibly the worst kind for you, food manufactures use hydrogenated oils in their food because it prolongs the shelf life, gives them a richer creamier taste and it costs less then real butter. But at that cheaper expense comes health risks such as a increase risk of heart disease.
Natural Peanut Butter, obviously the healthier of the two choices, may not be as sweet as regular peanut butter but it does taste more “heartier” then natural and some would argue has a creamier texture as well, not to mention it has half the ingredients as well. Natural peanut butter may a littler harder to use and what I mean by that is you’ll probably have to stir it occasionally because of the natural oil separation.
As far as nutritional facts are concerned regular and natural are almost the same from calories to protein, except for the trans fat value. A food label can read “0 grams” of trans fat if there is less than 0.5 grams per serving. so when buy food like peanut butter even if it is natural always read the label.
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