Speaker 1: Are you a smooth Are you a Qunti person? Peanut
Speaker 1: butter has been a pantry staple for as long as
Speaker 1: I can remember, Susie. Unfortunately, my little girl has a
Speaker 1: peanut allergy, so it's gone from our pantry, but I
Speaker 1: know a lot of our listeners absolutely love it. So
Speaker 1: today on the Nutrition Couch, we are talking about our
Speaker 1: favorite types of peanut butter. Hi, I'm Leanne Walk and
Speaker 1: I'm Sizzy Burrow and the s two of astrayas leading
Speaker 1: n aeticians, we bring you the Nutrition Couch, cutuct review,
Speaker 1: weekly chat and new products and old favorites that you
Speaker 1: can find in the supermarket. So we'll dive straight in, Susie,
Speaker 1: but quick yes or no peanut butter fan.
Speaker 2: I like peanut butter and banana, but my little boys
Speaker 2: are more of a fan than I am, probably, but
Speaker 2: I do. It's great, you know, stable to do some
Speaker 2: healthy baking with as well, and I think I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people will enjoy this episode
Speaker 2: because they love nothing more than dipping their spoon in
Speaker 2: the peanut butter and having a little cheeky chop up
Speaker 2: through the.
Speaker 1: Day or a couple of chiky top ups really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've picked some great ones. I have to say.
Speaker 1: Can we just say the price of peanut butter has
Speaker 1: gone up so much?
Speaker 2: Yes, I noticed the first one we chose.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking six dollars forty. Anyway, that's a whole
Speaker 1: nother story.
Speaker 2: I think there's international shortages of peanuts actually, and I
Speaker 2: think this is bumping up the price in particular. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that I noticed that too. That is a lot of
Speaker 2: money for a spread, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's like everything now, everything's just gone up so much.
Speaker 1: But we can sit there and we can wind, or
Speaker 1: we can talk about peanut butter. So let's go. The
Speaker 1: first one that I've chosen is the bigger light smooth
Speaker 1: peanut butter. So it's four hundred and seventy grams, so
Speaker 1: it's a larger jar for six dollars forty. It's retailing
Speaker 1: four now. Per serving size is twenty two grams. But
Speaker 1: I think we probably let me check the serving sizes
Speaker 1: of the other ones. Twenty grams. Well, maybe we'll just
Speaker 1: do a serving size then. Yeah, So it's roughly out
Speaker 1: twenty grams.
Speaker 2: Which I think is a decent serving size too. Because
Speaker 2: on my male pants I always put a teaspoon or
Speaker 2: two for my clients, and they're horrified. They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: you said teaspoon table.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was supposed to be in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it is very calorie dents, as we will
Speaker 2: our listeners will learn today.
Speaker 1: So the first point I want to make about this
Speaker 1: bigger light one is that the front of package labeling
Speaker 1: say's light and big bold letters. There's twenty five percent
Speaker 1: less fat and it's a smooth and the color is
Speaker 1: blue and white, and to me, blue and white for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, just to me and my brain signifies like
Speaker 1: a lighter, low fat option. So automatically I would grab
Speaker 1: this off the shelf without reading the nutrition label and
Speaker 1: think this is a better optional, this is a lower
Speaker 1: calorie option, and I'm sure many people would think the
Speaker 1: same thing. So it's quite interesting to actually review this.
Speaker 1: One'soozy because if you look at the ingredient list, it's
Speaker 1: sixty two percent roasted peanuts, which my brain automatically goes, well,
Speaker 1: what's the other what's is only sixty two Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: only sixty two percent peanuts. The second ingredient is nato dextrin,
Speaker 1: which is a sugar, followed by sugar which is a
Speaker 1: sugar followed by vegetable oil and some salt and some emulsifiers.
Speaker 1: So we have a couple of types of sugar and
Speaker 1: some vegetable oil which just don't need to be in there,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. And it's made from less than ten
Speaker 1: percent Australian ingredients, so it's definitely not we're not sporting
Speaker 1: local either. Now when we look at the nutrition analysis,
Speaker 1: so per serving, it's twenty two grams, which is roughly
Speaker 1: a tablespoon. Energy Wise, we've got five hundred and twelve
Speaker 1: kilogi protein. We've got three point eight total fat is
Speaker 1: eight point three grams, with one point seven grams being
Speaker 1: saturated fat. Carbs are seven point eight grams. Sugar, which
Speaker 1: I must say is mostly added, is three point four
Speaker 1: grams of sugar. Sodium is one hundred and thirty six
Speaker 1: milligrams in a serfs in a tablespoon. So not my
Speaker 1: favorite products, Uzy. I think a lot of people are
Speaker 1: unaware that, I mean. Peanut butter's come a long way. Certainly,
Speaker 1: Like ten years ago, most of the peanut butter on
Speaker 1: the market had added sugar and added salt in there.
Speaker 1: But these days you can easily easily find just one
Speaker 1: hundred percent peanut butter with no additions in there. But
Speaker 1: this one was an interesting one because you would think
Speaker 1: that it is a better option, but it's still got
Speaker 1: the added sugar, it's still got the added salts in there.
Speaker 2: It's a calorie dense food. Now, if you get the
Speaker 2: right mix, which we'll move on to, it can be nutritious.
Speaker 2: And I add its source of good fat, but it's
Speaker 2: basically one hundred calories per tablespoon. So if you're someone
Speaker 2: who has a couple of those a day, that's half
Speaker 2: a meal because it is primarily fat. So it's it's
Speaker 2: you know, got not shy of you know, a teaspoon
Speaker 2: of sugar in every tablespoon. I would not buy this product.
Speaker 2: I one hundred percent. I'm looking for no added sugar
Speaker 2: peanut butter. You're then paying for the quality. So yeah,
Speaker 2: certainly not a healthier product, even though it's musk, reading
Speaker 2: is lighter, or it tastes good. But certainly there's much
Speaker 2: better peanut butters out there nutritionally.
Speaker 1: And if you listen to the latest Sunday episode, which
Speaker 1: is episode one three nine, we actually talked about added
Speaker 1: sugars and this is one of the perfect examples of
Speaker 1: you think you don't eat that much sugar, but it
Speaker 1: really creeps in through sauces, through spreads, through breads and cereals.
Speaker 1: Even like if you're having two three tablespoons of this,
Speaker 1: and let's be honest, if you're having two pieces of
Speaker 1: toast for breakfast, you're very likely to put two or
Speaker 1: three tablespoons of peanut butter on it. You're consuming two
Speaker 1: to three teaspoons of added sugars into your diet already,
Speaker 1: let alone what else you might have throughout that day
Speaker 1: as well. So it's very easy to creep in. So
Speaker 1: you need to be very careful to read your nutrition
Speaker 1: labels as well. Certainly in something like peanut butter, we
Speaker 1: don't want added sugars. If we're looking at something like
Speaker 1: jam orna tella, naturally there's going to be sugars in there,
Speaker 1: and we're aware of that, hope fleet and accepting of
Speaker 1: that if we're using something like jam on toast, But
Speaker 1: in something like peanut butter, we're really wanting those those
Speaker 1: fats in there, not the added subbers.
Speaker 2: True, true, true, But it was a good fine to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 1: Now. The second option is the Maver's smudgy protein plus
Speaker 1: five seed peanut butter, so three hundred and seventy five grams,
Speaker 1: so a smaller bottle, but six dollars fifties, so no
Speaker 1: smaller price point, and again made in Australia from less
Speaker 1: than ten percent ingredients. We don't do many peanuts here do.
Speaker 2: Or seeds, nuts and seeds, we don't have a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Although I think this is an Aussie brand, isn't It's
Speaker 1: just unfortunately we can't get the assy ingredients.
Speaker 2: It is an Australian brand. But as I said, my
Speaker 2: understanding is that it's very difficult in general to source
Speaker 2: these products, and things like for pedas and sunflower seeds
Speaker 2: which really improves the nuditional profile, just aren't available here
Speaker 2: or they can't. Basically, the demand for this in Australia
Speaker 2: is really high and they just can't service it with
Speaker 2: what we're currently growing. So it's really interesting actually from
Speaker 2: a food provision for companies and what they do with
Speaker 2: cost and price points. So yeah, interesting thing that will happen.
Speaker 2: But this is a really interesting product because the Mavers
Speaker 2: range generally do one hundred percent nutspreads. But I actually
Speaker 2: love it because it's got such a beautiful mix of
Speaker 2: added seeds through it, which you would argue are really
Speaker 2: improving the fat profile. But they haven't given us any
Speaker 2: detail on that fat profile. But mind you, I think
Speaker 2: they do on the label. This is just the Woolies profile. Okay,
Speaker 2: I should say I have been a consultant to Mavers
Speaker 2: for a number of years, so just to for full disclosure,
Speaker 2: but the first ingredients is peanuts and then followed by
Speaker 2: peanut flower and then cheer seeds, linse seeds, sun flower seeds,
Speaker 2: per peters, and kin white five percent, so it's about
Speaker 2: ninety five percent peanuts with the addition of these extra seeds,
Speaker 2: which is a beautiful profile. But there's take home message
Speaker 2: for me here leand is it similar calorie wise per
Speaker 2: serve at for sixty eight killo jeels, which is just
Speaker 2: shy of other hundred or just over one hundred calories
Speaker 2: similar to the bigger variety, but it's double the protein
Speaker 2: at six point four gram so you're basically getting and
Speaker 2: paying for a better quality product. The fat is eight
Speaker 2: point four grams per serve, which the total fat is similar,
Speaker 2: and I'm just looking at the saturated fat. It's one here,
Speaker 2: but you would argue the long chain good fats would
Speaker 2: be much better in this product, and no added sugars here,
Speaker 2: so they're still coming in at one point three, but
Speaker 2: there's nothing added, and you're getting close to two grams
Speaker 2: of dietary fiber per serve, which is not insignificant from
Speaker 2: a nut spread, and particularly if you are trying to
Speaker 2: get a range of different fats in your diet each day.
Speaker 2: This is a really strong product. And I have to
Speaker 2: say that the reason I am an ambassador for Mavers
Speaker 2: is that all of their products are really strong and
Speaker 2: there's a range of great nuts spreads. In particular, I
Speaker 2: love the unhold Tahini because it's so rich in calcium
Speaker 2: for all my plant based diet people. But this is
Speaker 2: a really strong product. Like if you like it and
Speaker 2: it's in your house, nutritionally superior to one hundred percent peanuts, absolutely,
Speaker 2: and there's a whole different range, And when they're on
Speaker 2: half priced sale at the supermarkets, I would stock up
Speaker 2: because they're very really strong products.
Speaker 1: In general, I really like it. I would recommend it
Speaker 1: I do for my clients. Sure the price pond is
Speaker 1: a little bit higher, but you're paying for quality. Put
Speaker 1: it that way, You know, two grams nearly two grams
Speaker 1: of fiber per tablespoon is excellent. You've got some great
Speaker 1: diversity in there for you got health. Although you know
Speaker 1: five percents of the seeds is smaller amount, but you're
Speaker 1: still getting a little bit of diversity through there. And
Speaker 1: the sodium is quite low despite the added salt, like
Speaker 1: seventy five milligrams in this jar compared to the bigger
Speaker 1: which advertised as a light option one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: six milligrams per tablespoon in the Biger.
Speaker 2: One, it's got almost double, So it definitely.
Speaker 1: Ticks all of the boxes. And I think a little
Speaker 1: bit of added salt in your diet is fine if
Speaker 1: you're healthy, you have a mostly whole food diet. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't even be concerned about that for my client Susie, so.
Speaker 2: I would not worry if a peanut butter has got
Speaker 2: a little bit of added salt. That's a really good point,
Speaker 2: I agree. And it's just interesting that even though it's
Speaker 2: got it added, it's still less than the other brand,
Speaker 2: so it's certainly a minimal amount going through the kind.
Speaker 1: Of percent Yep, we like it. And then the final
Speaker 1: one is a good little Aussie brand Sanitarium. So we've
Speaker 1: got our Sanatarium natural crunchy peanut butter made from one
Speaker 1: hundred percent peanuts. So this one was a lower price
Speaker 1: at Wolws. It wasn't on sale. They've just naturally reduced
Speaker 1: their price and kept it a little bit lower. Is
Speaker 1: their sort of promise or their marketing spend. So three
Speaker 1: dollars fifty to three hundred and seventy five grams, So
Speaker 1: from a budget perspective, I think this one's excellent. It's
Speaker 1: five style hous rating as well, which is good because
Speaker 1: the ingredients are one hundred percent roasted peanuts, so no
Speaker 1: added salt, no added sugar. It's great. I can't fault it.
Speaker 2: Like what it says. I've never seen this before. I
Speaker 2: delabel Sanitariums are fantastic food company with big fans, but
Speaker 2: it says made in Australia from zero percent Australian ingredients
Speaker 2: because the peanuts are coming from overseas. I've never seen
Speaker 2: a label say that. Being honest, now, we haven't got
Speaker 2: enough peanuts yet, no peanuts in Australia.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent roasted peanuts and the ingredient label, which
Speaker 1: is exactly what we want to see when it's it's
Speaker 1: marketed as a natural peanut butter. It's a crunchy one,
Speaker 1: which I've chosen crunchy susy because that's my preference when
Speaker 1: it comes to peanut butter.
Speaker 2: Me too. I'm crunchy all the whalien, all the way.
Speaker 1: I've got waste macrors on that. I'm one hundred percent
Speaker 1: the crunchy girl. I could eat crunchy out of the
Speaker 1: jar with the spoon. It's delicious. And then looking at
Speaker 1: the serving size, it's twenty grams, which is roughly a
Speaker 1: tablespoon depending how heavy handed you are and quantity per serving.
Speaker 1: Nutrition wise, we've got five hundred and sixteen kilogills five
Speaker 1: point nine grams of protein, so the prot the Mavor's
Speaker 1: one was higher due to the addition of peanut flour
Speaker 1: as well, So we're adding a more concentrated form of
Speaker 1: peanuts in there, which drove up the protein and the
Speaker 1: fiber profile as well, which is quite good. So protein
Speaker 1: a little bit lower, but still good, nearly six grams
Speaker 1: per tablespoom that is nine point nine grams with one
Speaker 1: point two of that being saturated. Calbs are two point
Speaker 1: three grams with sugars naturally occurring at zero point nine grams.
Speaker 1: So all in all, I would use it. I would
Speaker 1: recommend it. I have my clients. It tastes very good
Speaker 1: as well, and it doesn't get as much separation as
Speaker 1: I find some of the Mavor's ones get like I
Speaker 1: love Mavas, I use it, I recommend it, but it
Speaker 1: really annoys me how there's so much oil separation and
Speaker 1: you try to stir it and it's so dense at
Speaker 1: the bottom it just flows over the jar, and you guys,
Speaker 1: me insane. So I quite like this product.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. And that's the sort of thing when
Speaker 2: you get sort of fresh whole ingredients, in particular the
Speaker 2: seeds which are quite unstable. You know, it does mean
Speaker 2: you've got this sort of fresh product which is almost
Speaker 2: like dairy. You know, it's fresh and changing, and you're right.
Speaker 2: I find with my Mavers I have to eat and
Speaker 2: use it in the house quite quickly to try and
Speaker 2: sort of get the best freshness of it, rather than
Speaker 2: leaving it sit there. Whereas I do notice with something
Speaker 2: like this, which is a very strong product, nutritionally, you
Speaker 2: can keep it longer at home because it doesn't have
Speaker 2: that effect, and it is, you know, as clean as
Speaker 2: it comes. It's one hundred percent peanuts. You know it
Speaker 2: tastes good. Sanitarium is a fantastic astrain brand, and I
Speaker 2: think you know it's a fantastic price point as well,
Speaker 2: leanne So I think again, different streets for different folk.
Speaker 2: You know, you might love the runniness and that texture
Speaker 2: of Mavors or be using it in making protein balls,
Speaker 2: which for which it's fantastic because it bakes really well
Speaker 2: into that product. Or you might be someone who likes
Speaker 2: a thicker, kind of heavier peanut butter on your toast
Speaker 2: and has such you would use this, or you know,
Speaker 2: had the peanut butter for longer. You might not have
Speaker 2: teenage boys or kids in the home. So if you
Speaker 2: buy peanut butter, it's got the last three or four
Speaker 2: months well for you that this is probably going to
Speaker 2: be a better product because it will be a bit
Speaker 2: more shelf stable good points.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that was pretty quick and easy, Susie.
Speaker 1: Big peanut butter fans here at the nutrition cat and
Speaker 1: two which tick all of our boxes.
Speaker 2: Our nutritional boxes and our nutritional boxes.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that gives you some ideas of different products that
Speaker 1: we recommend when you're at the supermarket next time. So
Speaker 1: brings us to the end of another nutrition Catch product review,
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