We try some of the best – and worst – versions on the market
The supermarket peanut butter taste test
Do you like your peanut butter smooth or crunchy? Do you use it for baking or prefer to eat it on toast, in a smoothie or acai bowl, drizzled over pancakes or spread on slices of crunchy apple as an elite, nutritious snack first seen – by me anyway – in The West Wing? Whatever way you eat it, chances are you have a jar in the kitchen cupboard, on standby.
Peanut butter has been rehabilitated in recent years. Once viewed as a calorie-heavy indulgence, it’s now lauded as a health food and source of protein, fibre and good fats. That’s more applicable, of course, to peanut butters that – like our winner – contain nothing but roasted peanuts.