Is there really a difference between natural peanut butter and skippy?

[HumanShell]

I love the taste of natural peanutbutter.

 

[Phemomena]

I love the taste of natural peanutbutter.

i'm not big on it to be honest, but it all tastes the same in a shake (chocolate protein, 1/3 of a banana and some all natural pb (i've been throwing in some egg whites lately too) mix it up with soya milk and ice... tastes great!

 

[LATINLOVER]

All natural peanut butter is not cheating. We are trying to figure out if there is really a difference between the two. Not a flame just informing you.

Peace bro.
M56M

I don't know what your diet is but peanut butter has a lot of fat and not real good ones.I use flaxseed or omega 3 oils,or olive for cooking I do have peanut butter once in a while but I don't consider it good fat it just stops my cravings as any other fat will in a protein diet. The difference of natural and regular ask the hippies or vegetarians.

 

[Tha One CrumCake]

Natural Peanut Butter = Natural

Skippy = Bullshit.

That is tha main difference.

 

[88keyman]

Skippy and "natural" are more similar than different.

Hydrogenated fats do NOT equal trans fats. Only partially-hydrogenated oils become trans fats. Fully hydrogenated ones -- like in Skippy -- become saturated fat. Peanuts and other nuts already contain saturated fat, so it's only a matter of quantity. Looking on the jars of Skippy and of "natural" Laura Scudder's, the Skippy has 16 gm total fat, 0 trans fat, and 3 gm saturated fat vs. Laura Scudder's 16 gm total fat, 0 trans fat, and 2.5 gm saturated fat. Yes, the Skippy has added sugar. If you don't like that, choose the natural kind. But with 3 gm saturated fat in Skippy's vs. 2.5 gm saturated fat in the natural kind, I don't see how there's a great, or even significant, nutritional difference. (Plain peanuts in a can have 2 gm of saturated fat, just fyi.)