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Sounds damn near impossible. I'll wager a peanut butter sandwich has more than that, not accounting for jelly.
by madengr 10y ago
Sounds damn near impossible. I'll wager a peanut butter sandwich has more than that, not accounting for jelly.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoI'm not sure about either (a) what kind of peanut butter you're eating or (b) how huge of a sandwich you've got.
- healthnutter 10y agoTry eating natural peanut butter. The only listed ingredient should be peanuts. Very healthy.
- infinite8s 10y agoHave you noticed that the price of natural peanut butter is almost 2 times that of the sugar-adulterated peanut butter?
- emidln 10y agoI wonder if this is purely price discrimination or if requiring more peanuts means the cost is actually higher (relative to using HFCS).
- VLM 10y agoNut quality. Try eating a bitter rancid old peanut alone and then smothered in corn syrup. The more sugar you add, the lower quality/cheaper of a nut you can use.
- magic_beans 10y agoIt depends on the season. Prices of natural peanut butter (by natural peanut butter I mean the only ingredients are peanuts and salt) are really cheap right now in September ($3.60 for me). But by February they can get up to $8.00 a jar.
- ams6110 10y agoJust checked the Jif peanut butter in the cupboard. 3g of sugar per serving. But yes with typical supermarket bread and jelly added, a lot more.
- generic_user 10y agoYou can buy both peanut butter and fruit spread without added sugar. They taste much better then the sugar heavy brands.
- themgt 10y agoThis comment is a great microcosm of what's gone wrong in the US food supply. "Peanut butter" doesn't by definition require any ingredients other than peanuts. Want some added salt for flavor? Sure! This is America though. So let's take those healthy salty nuts and mix in a few tablespoons of high-fructose corn syrup! Not just as an option - let's put that in every damn product we offer, except maybe a double the price "natural" option for yuppies. Same with yogurt - great, healthy food: almost impossible to find in a US supermarket without shitloads of added sugar. I don't care about "what the market wants" comments, nor am I a fan of NYC-style "soda laws". I do think it ought to be borderline criminal that basically all the huge companies whose job it is to supply the US public with food have laced a majority of their otherwise healthy product lines with poison, to the point where the inability to find basic foodstuffs not laced with poison is just taken as a fact of modern life.
- DanBC 10y ago25 grams of sugar is about 5 teaspoons. How the fuck does a peanut butter sandwich end up with that much sugar?
- madengr 10y agoIt's between 6-9g. Two tbsp of peanut butter is 3g, then 3-6g for the bread. Now add a tbsp of jelly and it goes up 10g. So you are talking 19g for a pb&j.