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Bobby What is up, FlavCity family? It is Bobby back at the grocery store because you guys have been requesting a nut butter video and wow, I did a deep dive into research the last week or so and there's a lot to cover. You think it'd be pretty easy, right, back growing up back in my day, it was 1 thing. You had peanut butter and that's it. Now we have peanut butter, almond butter, coconut butter, all these different kind of things, and it really boils down to reading the ingredients because now more than ever, they're sneaking so many low quality bad ingredients in here in the form of palm oil, sugar, hydrogenated oils.
Bobby We're also gonna talk about no stir, peanut butters and nut butters, why is palm oil and everything, the highest protein, the lowest carb, even jams and jellies. We're gonna hook you up big time. So before we start, why don't you hook me up? Click that old subscribe button because we are rocking 3 videos every week, 2 videos on the weekends and a live stream during the week. So go ahead and click that bell icon right below the video because you don't want to miss these live streams.
Bobby We're making a recipe from start to finish, doing q and a, hanging out. It is a really fun time. Alright. Let's start with the biggest offenders of all and unfortunately, the kind of peanut butters that Art and I grew up on. Skippy, Jif, and Peter Pan.
Bobby Right? All you have to do, you guys, is look at the ingredients. That is the theme of this video. Read the ingredients. If it's not 2 ingredients, nuts and salt, put it back.
Bobby So we go to the back of the ingredients of Skippy, and it has peanuts, but then sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil containing cotton and soybean, and rapeseed oil. Cottonseed oil is 1 of the cheapest, most agricultural oils you can get. It's terrible for you. It's highly processed with high high amount of chemicals. Then we go to the Jif, and the Jif has peanuts and sugar, fully hydrogenated vegetable oils once again, and molasses and a bunch of added sugar here.
Bobby So really low quality oils. And why do they put these oils in here Including in the peter pan? Because they make it more shelf stable. It'll last longer on the shelf and it makes it creamier. It essentially makes it no stir.
Bobby And I know we all want no stir. Someone on Instagram said, hey, please tell me a good healthy no stir. So I got news for you. If you ever see the words no stir on a label, put it back immediately because what are Peanut butters and nut butters made from? Nuts that have fat.
Bobby So it's a 100% natural to see the separation of fat and the nuts because that's what happens when you grind nuts. When you put, palm oil and hydrogenated oils in there, that makes it stir free. You don't want that. So it's a telltale sign that you wanna put it back. Now I would much rather you guys buy organic peanut and organic almond butter because I've talked about this in the past.
Bobby Peanuts are legumes. They grow in the ground. They're heavily sprayed with pesticides and chemicals. And almond trees, even though they're trees, they spray the ground around the almond a lot because when they shake the almond trees, they don't want any grass and shrubs there to impede the picking up process, which leaches into the almonds. So I Butter you buy organic.
Bobby That being said, it's very tricky with nut butters because if they add anything else to the butter, I'd rather you not buy organic. So this 1 here from marinatha is organic, but if you look at the label, it's made with palm oil. We're gonna talk about palm oil in a few minutes, but I would stay away from that because it's a really bad oil. I would rather you go to the conventional because I don't want you having anything besides the nuts and the salt. So I would put this 1 back.
Bobby And instead, there's a couple options here at Walmart. This is a really cool brand, Crazy Richard's. So check it out. If I show you the ingredients here, there's 1 ingredient, peanuts. That's it.
Bobby So that's why I prefer this. Right? There's no hydrogenated oils. There's no sugar. There's no palm oil.
Bobby I'd much rather trade down to conventional versus organic if they don't add those ingredients. That being said, there's a couple really accessible options here at Walmart. First of all, Smucker's. Right? Smucker's makes a natural peanut butter that only has peanuts and a little bit of salt.
Bobby Very, very good. And Smucker's has the organic here, which is just peanuts and salt. 2 great options that I would totally have. And then you can also get the organic Walmart brand too. All it has is peanuts and salt.
Bobby Now looking at the ingredient list, the critic inside me says what kind of salt do they use. When we're done with this video, watch our salt review video. I would much rather they use like a natural sea salt. When they don't say it like that specifically, they're using a typical bleached agricultural salt, which if you watch the video, it's highly bleached and highly processed, but it's a little bit of a too deep of a dive for this video. I'm just happy they're not putting other stuff in here, but I'll show you for example, like, these are Butter.
Bobby It's a premium nut butter and actually they have it at Costco for a much better price. And Look at the ingredients on the back here. They're using Celtic sea salt and really clean ingredients here. If your child has a peanut allergy or you have a peanut allergy, you can't have this 1, but you can have the Nutso Power Fuel. It's peanut free, but it still does have tree nuts in there.
Bobby That being said, that leads us to the best alternative if you have a tree nut or peanut allergy, that would be right here. It's gonna be sunflower seed butter, but you don't wanna get this brand because we look at the back here, it's got sugar in here. We don't need to add sugar to butters. They have 2 sunflower seed butters at Trader Joe's. 1 of them has, sugar added them, the other 1 doesn't.
Bobby If you're AIP and you have an autoimmune protocol diet, you can't have any of that. There's only 2 things you can have. You can have coconut butter or tiger nut butter, which is actually a, a tuber. Those 2 are available online. Don't buy the coconut butter in the store.
Bobby I'm gonna show YouTube next 1. It's way too expensive. Buy it on Amazon. I'll put the link down below. And then there's something that even Arch was not even impressed with, wow butter, because even though it's approved for school and it's, nut free, look Look at the ingredients.
Bobby It's whole toasted soy and pressed soy oil. Does it say anywhere? Yes. It says it's non GMO certified, so that's good. Then it has cane sugar and palm sugar.
Bobby The thing is, I would not give this soy to the kids because it can disrupt your hormone development, and when you're a kid that's really important. So I would say no to this. Stick with the sunflower seed butter that has no additional palm oil or sugar, and then that brings us to peanut butter powders. Now there's 2 or this is the main brand, Peanut. I'm gonna tell you to stay away from this 1 because look at the ingredients.
Bobby It has added sugar here. If you're gonna get it, you're much better off getting the Walmart brand. It's really cheap, but it has the added sugar which bothers me. The cool thing is there's a powdered almond butter here from Barney and while you'll see at the next grocery store, I don't want you to buy the Barney almond butter because it has additional ingredients. This 1 doesn't.
Bobby It's just blanched almonds and it's the powder here. So, it is lower fat, great for smoothies, great for cooking and sauces. Now, that brings us to 1 of the most common questions I got on Instagram about making this video. By the way, if you're not following me on the FlavCity Instagram stories, get on that because we make dinner every night on stories and it's a lot of fun. People wanted to know what's the deal with palm oil.
Bobby Look at the back of all of these different brands. They're all have palm oil in here, even like a premium brand like marinatha. And I want you to run. Run, Forrest. Run.
Bobby Run for the hills from palm oil because it's an oil that is relatively cheap. It's really bad for the environment, but it's also really bad for your health. Okay. It's not quite as bad as a partially hydrogenated fat or a fully hydrogenated fat, but it's really, really bad for your health. The reason why these makers love palm oil is because it's relatively inexpensive, but it does 2 things.
Bobby It extends the shelf life for the peanut butter really far and it makes the texture really silky and creamy. Almost like that no stir because cause people don't wanna see that separation here. You don't see the separation, you don't see the separation. That's why brands like it. That's why you have to stay away from it.
Bobby Even the Sam's Choice 1 from Walmart is a no no. Okay. I'm gonna talk about this now. We might as well. Raw almond butter was a huge, huge topic and can you see the price arc?
Bobby Why is the price of this 15.48 whereas the other almond butter is 698? Biggest farce maybe in this aisle is raw almond butter. I did a deep dive about what it means to be raw. Smoke and mirrors, my friends, there's no such thing as raw almonds in the US. It's not allowed to sell raw almonds, so there's 2 ways to pasteurize, almonds.
Bobby You can steam pasteurize them up to 165 degrees, essentially cooking them or what most manufacturers are doing now is they're gassing them. They're putting the almonds in a chamber and gassing them with propylene oxide or PPO. That is a gas that pasteurizes them without warming them up too much. Prochlorine oxide is a chemical that's deemed by the WHO, the World Health Organization, as a carcinogen. I have to do a much deeper dive to find out what brands are doing this and which ones aren't.
Bobby But going back to my original point, raw almond butter is a joke because it's being pasteurized. What happens when you you pasteurize a product? Well, you kill the bad bacteria, but you also kill all the good ones too. Maybe there's a few left over, but is it worth paying an extra $10 per jar for? No.
Bobby So do not buy raw almond butter. I think it's 1 of the biggest jokes here. And when we go to the next grocery store, I've seen containers even bigger than this for higher prices. Total, total waste of money. Alright.
Bobby Some other really popular questions on, Instagram stories was which nut butter has the highest protein? That would be peanut butter. Peanut butter has the highest protein, but it's followed right behind by almond butter. We're talking like a 1 gram difference per serving. Which of the nut butters are the lowest carb?
Bobby Once again, almond butter. There are other low carb nut butters like, macadamia nut and hazelnut and Brazil nut, but those start to get really expensive. So so I think we covered almost everything at this grocery store. Let's go to Whole Foods because they have some other brands that you might think are premium, but once you start to read the labels, it's shocking. And I wanna warn you before you waste your money, before we head over there, you guys, on August 3rd, I'm doing a cookbook party in Chicago.
Bobby It's gonna be huge. We're serving recipes from the cookbook. I'll be doing a cooking demo there too and we only have about 70 tickets left. It's gonna be super fun. I'm gonna put that link down in the description box.
Bobby If you live in the area or you feel like taking a road trip, you can hang out with me, Art, Dessi, maybe my dad Johnny peanut. It's gonna be a super fun time. So I hope to see you there. Alright. New store, Whole Foods.
Bobby You might think there's gonna be a few more premium options here, but you gotta read the ingredients because it's very deceiving. Starting with a brand called Barney butter. They make almond butter and peanut butter. Looks clean, looks premium. It's 1299 for this, But look at the ingredients, you guys.
Bobby Almonds, cane sugar, palm fruit oil. This is not even worth $2. I would not buy this. And then another brand here is Justin's. Right?
Bobby They've been around for a long time. Peanuts and palm oil. I It's ridiculous they're charging this much and putting low quality hydrogenated style palm oil in here. And look, you can just tell visibly. When there's no separation of the fat and the nut, that means it's mixed with palm oil and stuff you don't wanna have.
Bobby So Justin's, all Justin's is a no. This brand here and look at these prices are. Artisana or organic raw. These prices are insulting. $21 for a container this big?
Bobby No. We know now that nothing's raw, and that is just insulting. Then we go to something like RX. RX bars are making peanut butter now. I'm mad at myself because I approved in the Bobby approved list.
Bobby The RX bars, the Costco snack hall, the other week, I missed it. They have natural flavoring, so that's my bad. Thank you guys for leaving comments in the description box. Those are a hard no. But we look at the butters here, and they're using honey as a a sweetener and natural flavorings again.
Bobby So this is a no too. And here at Whole Foods, they have the peanut, but they have a chocolate brand. And look at the ingredients, even though it has a touch of sugar, it's coconut sugar, which is a better, all natural sweetener that's lower on my glycemic index. And it only has 2 grams of sugar, so this would actually be an okay chocolate 1 to give the kids. They also make a version of nutso at Trader Joe's, and it's way cheaper.
Bobby And by the way, all the peanut butters and almond butters from Trader Joe's are good to go. The cashew butter has safflower oil, which is a no, and, sunflower seed, they have 2. 1 is good and 1 is bad. A lot of you guys on Instagram are asking about these, the nut grinding machines here at Whole Foods or your local grocery store. Yes.
Bobby Use these because you know what goes in there. 1 Including, the nuts. The price is pretty good and it's about as fresh as you can get. Going back to the sunflower Butter, in case you have a, tree nut allergy. This is interesting because the conventional style sunflower butter has sugar in here and the organic 1 doesn't.
Bobby So you basically have to pay the organic price of 9.99 to get the sugar free version. The conventional 1 is 660 699. So I don't know why they do that for just the organic version. And then look down here really quick. Tahini.
Bobby This was requested on Instagram. Tahini is 1 of my favorite things. I use it a lot in the Keto Meal Prepping Cookbook out right now. And if you live in the Middle East, this is your vision of peanut butter. When you're buying tahini, make sure it's runny, loose, and pourable.
Bobby For example, the 1 in Trader Joe's is the worst. It's very, thick and it doesn't pour at all. If it doesn't pour like runny peanut butter, don't buy it. This is 1 of the best values, the whole foods 365. And I'll put the other list down below.
Bobby But if you haven't experimented yet with tahini, it's really really good for you. It's made from sesame seeds, and it's delicious. Okay. Before we talk about jams and jellies, I brought in my outside, groceries. Costco has an amazing price on organic.
Bobby Nuts and salt only peanut Butter, this is fantastic. They used to have organic almond butter too. If you still have it at your Costco, scoop that, the deal is amazing. Otherwise, the Kirkland almond butter is just almonds and salt, fantastic deal. Now, very easy.
Bobby When it comes to jams and jellies, you wanna buy ones that are either no sugar added, reduced sugar or sugar free completely. So I look at something like this, Crofters, there's no added sugar. Right? It's grape juice, wild blueberries, pectin, and citric acid. That's it.
Bobby Or something like this Bio Nature, it's from Italy. It has no added sugar. It's just the sugar from the cherries, apple juice concentrate, and that's it. I'm gonna put a list down below of all the reduced and sugar free jams and jellies. Trader Joe's has reduced, sugar in strawberry and blueberry.
Bobby There's 2 sugar free ones only available online. There's 1 called Good Good Sweet Jam made with, Stevia. That's a good 1. I'll put the Amazon link down below. And 1 called Nature's Hollow, which is made with xylitol, which is not my favorite sweetener, but I'll put that link down below too.
Bobby So that is it, you guys. Then we just covered all of the peanut and nut butters you could possibly want. Now I know there's a lot of information in this video. I'm gonna put it all down in the description box, the good, the bad, what to look for, all that other stuff. Let me know what you wanna see next.
Bobby Right? The grocery store is a big wild mysterious place and Art and I are here to solve all your problems. We got 2 more links, 2 more videos going below us right now, but Art and I will see you very soon. Until then, hashtag keep on cooking, mad love, and peace.