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For anyone wondering, Trader Joe's sells these in the US! They're great, and they're "real" Bamba and not a TJ's replica.
by ladberg 4y ago
For anyone wondering, Trader Joe's sells these in the US! They're great, and they're "real" Bamba and not a TJ's replica.
- latchkey 4y agohttps://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/058373 https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/058373 "Bamba Peanut Snacks contain just four, simple ingredients: corn grits, peanut paste, palm oil, and salt."
- brewdad 4y agoThe palm oil is less than ideal but this isn't exactly health food to begin with.
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- throwaway12245 4y ago>palm oil is less than ideal Why do you say this? Just curious. Palm oil is one of the better plant oils, no?
- dghughes 4y agoMassive harm of the environment by companies that farm it. Orangutans' habitat for one.
- Swizec 4y agoThe main problem with palm oil isn’t health afaik, it’s the orangutan habitat destruction since most palm oil still comes from wild forests instead of farming. https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil
- supernova87a 4y agoPalm oil is full of saturated fats isn't it?
- sph 4y agoMassive amounts of inflammatory PUFAs. No, palm oil is terrible and everywhere in ultra processed food because it's extremely cheap. There are few healthy vegetable oils and they tend to be very expensive: olive, macadamia, coconut, etc. EDIT: I stand corrected, it has moderate amounts of PUFA, but terrible Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio (45/1), which is thought to have metabolic consequences.
- zerocrates 4y agoMy understanding has been that it's cheap, saturated, and solid/stable, so it's a straightforward replacement for the hydrogenated oils that were previously being used in many of the same applications before the whole trans fat issue banished them.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoCanola oil is cheap and it improves health outcomes in humans despite twitter sophistry.
- scythe 4y agoPalm oil generates an incredible amount of pollution in Internet comment sections whenever it is mentioned, because people don't realize that it's simply the most productive oil per unit acre by far. If not for Indonesian rainforest palm oil you'd need to cut down 2-3x as much Brazilian rainforest for soybeans or Phillippine rainforest for coconuts to meet the same demand. 71% of palm oil is consumed between the Caspian Sea and the Pacific. Approximately one-third is used for nonfood applications, particularly the Indonesian biodiesel industry, which if you wanted to do something about deforestation, you could pay them to stop doing that in particular. https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/palm-oil-market https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/palm-oil... It is a saturated fat, but it's being mixed with highly unsaturated peanut oil, so the whole-product average is probably insignificant.
- lostlogin 4y agoI went searching regarding your claim about how productive various types of oil are per acre. It’s actually insane, and palm oil is at least 400% better than the next best. Edit: coconut oil production is variable depending on where you check. It might be half as good as palm oil. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-yield-by-crop https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-yield-by-crop https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-plant-oil-yield-showing-efficiency-comparison-among-different-major-oil-crops_fig2_325398464 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-plant-oil-yield-... https://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html https://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html
- KingLancelot 4y agoPalm oil harvesting is killing endangered orangutans.
- berry_sortoro 4y ago[dead]
- jessaustin 4y agoIf they used tasty healthy lard the product wouldn't sell very well in Israel or anywhere else in the Near East...
- fuzzfactor 4y agoSimilar to the palm oil, when imported, the tallow comes in on chemical tankers (whose cargo tanks' most recent cargoes were things like benzene or methanol at the cleanest). Yum.
- 331c8c71 4y agoCleaning is mandatory but I am wondering who is controlling...
- fuzzfactor 4y ago>who is controlling... Depends on which port and which personnel. The better informed are all aware that after discharge, if the remaining barrels of benzene or methanol can be completely removed by suction and evaporation from the designated edible oil compartments and all associated pipelines and hoses, there is never any cleaner equipment. Considering earlier voyages, there is no way 12 hours of shipyard cleaning is going to be as effective at removing traces of previous cargoes like acrylonitrile or spent transformer oil, compared to a full voyage when loaded with hundreds of tonnes of such a clean, strong solvent as high-purity benzene or methanol. So you can only imagine whether everyone involved will all play their supposed part to the fullest extent you might have in mind when preparing for bulk edible oils. Every time. Sometimes expediting the movement will have to take precedence, other times there "just might" be the attitude of "why bother?" And when you're the one climbing down inside the vessel compartment to inspect for cleanliness, there can be quite a bit of pressure not to reject a tank that looks so clean (as long as there is no obvious wetness) compared to some of the other choices on board the same ship. Once any of the crew or yourself has been down there and come back up without immediate ill effects, it's been long thought it can't be that bad unless you actually saw something wrong visually. Certificates of Cleanliness, if required, will always be a part of the paperwork package. And may I remind you it's the methanol that carries the skull & crossbones, not the benzene.
- beagle3 4y agoI might be mistaken, but IIRC it originally (as in, 60 years ago) contained peanuts, salt, and that’s it. 100% peanuts were replaced by 50% peanuts+50% corn some time in the last 30 years.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoTarget sells them too: https://www.target.com/p/osem-bamba-peanut-butter-baby-puffs-family-pack-7oz/-/A-54571234 https://www.target.com/p/osem-bamba-peanut-butter-baby-puffs...
- gimmeThaBeet 4y agoI was seeing that, I was a bit surprised that it seemed like the actual branded product. My habit is to figure out who makes that kind of stuff, when I saw Osem, I was thinking "how haven't they been acquired by some behemoth?" And then quickly found "ah nevermind, nestle" Peanut butter cheetos sounds like an incredible proposition, I'm going to be looking around for them this weekend!
- Arrath 4y agoYeah I have to say those sound excellent. Time to go hunting.
- bombcar 4y agoTrader Joes (and Costco) are just fine selling branded product if they can get a deal for it cheap enough. It's usually the manufacturer that doesn't want to "cheapen their brand" to hit the price points, but they're willing to "bulk up" for Costco or sell direct to Trader Joes at times.
- logicfiction 4y agoAlso a lot of things at Trader Joes are just white labeled versions of other products. As in, literally the same product, just inside packaging that says "Trader Joe's <Similar Name to Other Product>"
- bombcar 4y agoThose are the companies that don't want to admit selling their stuff for cheaper, so they get it store-branded.
- maccard 4y agoIve got family who have worked in food production lines, it's often not the same product, maybe a slightly modified recipe or using different ingredients or ratios.
- mattgreenrocks 4y agoYep. We used that with our kid and he seems to have avoided peanut allergy. It also tastes pretty good! But, it didn't stop him from developing a walnut/pecan allergy. Probably because we don't really eat either of those in our house.
- mcculley 4y agoAs someone who loves walnuts and pecans, I find this tragic. I had no idea that was a possible outcome. Sorry to hear that. I will advise new parents to investigate.
- gingerlime 4y agoMy child also has walnut/pecan allergy. I don't recall him eating much Bamba before (I'm from Israel originally, so it won't surprise me if he did). No peanut allergy luckily. It triggered when he was quite young after eating brownies with pecan/walnut.
- sergers 4y agoSame... My daughter had tree nut allergy(worst is cashew). Peanut I found out are technically legumes, where as pecan, almond, cashew, walnut, pistachio, etc are tree nuts. So while we call them all "nuts", peanuts are quite different than tree nuts. Daughter developed severe tree nut allergy(that we don't leave home without 2x EpiPen) by age 3. Had pleanty of foods with peanut butter, but seldom tree nut exposure (outside of mixed nuts which she was too young to consume). She can eat peanut products just fine, but we end up telling everyone all nuts allergy including peanuts... As some people don't know the difference. Now I am finding everything "peanut free" is not always tree nuts free, there's different labeling =/ Cashew is in alot of vegan foods and South Asian dishes (though alot of restaurants stopped using cashew based thickener now, some still do).
- savagedata 4y agoI've found them at HEB and Randall's too!
- nukeman 4y agoI’ve found them at Publix in SC.
- tshaddox 4y agoHow serendipitous! I just saw these at my Trader Joe's for the first time a week or two ago and I've been addicted to them.
- spelunker 4y agoThey're delicious by the way, once you get over the fact that they look a lot like Cheetos.
- poisonarena 4y agothey are also somehow cheaper here than in Israel and it is infuriating to me
- Zezima 4y agoI know! $1.30?? Some crazy subsidy magic is happening at TJs
- robotnikman 4y agoI love those things! I usually end up always grabbing a bag when I go shopping there.