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Jif Natural Peanut Butter

Thursday, April 23, 2009

George Washington Carver once said, "Four score, and seven years ago, all peanut butters were made equal". Kaitis was walking in a local supermarket whereupon he came across JIF Natural peanut butter. He puts G. W. Carver's first law to the test.

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Kaitis
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Food & Drink

Reviewed by Michael Kaitis

Jif Natural Creamy Peanut Butter

So, it's peanut butter. More than likely you've eaten this stuff; after all it's pretty much the basis of elementary school food. Just like everything else though, there's about 100 brands of it, but this time I got the choice of choosy moms: JIF. Amongst the sea of blue and red and green lids, now stands a calm brown lid holding the newest peanut butter to grace the market - JIF Natural. Now unlike regular peanut butter, this stuff is 90% pure peanuts, and conveniently doesn't require stirring. Surprisingly enough this stuff isn't really any better for you than the other kinds of JIF you can get. The big difference is the peanut to oil ratio, with regular peanut butter using vegetable oil and Natural using Palm oil. Besides that mixing difference, the nutritional facts are just about the same, as is the price, with the differences being almost too small to mention. The flavor and texture is what it all comes down to.

JIF Natural should almost be called super creamy, just because of how much more creamy it is than the regular red capped "Creamy" variety. It spreads on bread like butter that has been sitting out, but it's sorta of handy in that aspect. The taste is almost a world of difference too, with Natural being a lot more nutty than the usual varieties. Part of me wants to like it for how well it contrasts a good jelly and how alterna-hip natural foods are, but the other half of me doesn't like it because even though the sugar contents are the same, traditional Peanut Butter tastes more sweet to me. Maybe, for the first time ever on this site, I can't come to a good conclusion on this one. I am positive it's tasty, and much better than any corporate natural peanut butters you may have had in the past. It's really worth checking out, and at the very least it's a nice change of pace from the regular peanut butters you've been eating for all these years.

4 comments:

Marvo
April 23, 2009 7:47 PM: I tried this too and I liked it. But what I liked most was its spreadability. I usually eat Skippy because I can buy pounds of it at Costco, but they tend to tear bread.

Maybe I eat weak bread.
Brad
April 24, 2009 1:20 AM: Usually breaking bread is a happy occasion. Maybe your bread is just trying to spice things up.
Anonymous
April 29, 2009 5:11 PM: If I am remembering correctly, I think Jif Natural has a lot less sodium than other peanut butters.
Tina
December 3, 2009 1:58 PM: It is different than original jif in that it does not have high fructose corns syrup and partially hydrogenated oils and 50 other things that peanut butter really doesn't need. So although calorie and fat wise it doesn't look a lot healthier-ingredients wise it is much healthier!