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The same is true for butter, yet nobody has any qualms about "peanut butter" not being made of dairy products. The term "oat milk" is clear. It is made of oats
by chickenpotpie 4y ago
The same is true for butter, yet nobody has any qualms about "peanut butter" not being made of dairy products. The term "oat milk" is clear. It is made of oats and resembles milk.
- pleb_nz 4y agoAbsolutely, as long as they say oat milk then that's fine. I don't think they should be allowed to just say milk.
- chickenpotpie 4y agoThat's exactly what's being proposed. The document specifically says that the word milk should be proceeded by the plant used to make it.
- null0ranje 4y agoExcept peanut butter is not trying to be a substitute for butter.
- mrguyorama 4y agoA good example of how that doesn't matter is apple butter, which replaces neither peanut butter, or regular butter, and doesn't really resemble either, and which I've never seen anyone complain about the naming and the FDA will not go after any producer who makes it and labels it apple butter.
- bombcar 4y agoHowever I daresay you'd get in a bit of trouble if you took margarine and added a tiny bit of peanuts OR apple and then called it (very small "peanut" very large BUTTER).
- deafpolygon 4y agoOh, you can't call it peanut butter in the Netherlands on account of that. It's peanut cheese (pindakaas).
- galleywest200 4y agoThis is hilarious to me, as its even less like a cheese than a butter.
- deafpolygon 4y agoThat's the Netherlands for you!
- drsnow 4y agoThis makes absolutely zero sense as cheese is also a product that the peanut puree most certainly is not, what am I missing?
- deafpolygon 4y agoA non-dairy product may not be advertised as butter. This is to prevent the margarine companies from mislabeling their products as butter. Because of this, peanut butter cannot be labeled butter. So why cheese? We don't really know. Some theories: - possible "germanization" of a Surinamese dish/product "Pinda-Käse" - A product called pindadokun which literally was a block of pounded peanut that could be sliced, like with cheese - When Calve marketed their peanut butter (Rising in popularity due to WW2), they were barred from marketing it as pindaboter, and instead used pindakaas.
- hot_gril 4y agoThey already label it oat milk. Am I missing something? I just don't want to buy plain "milk," or something advertised to contain it, that turns out to be some substitute.