So I’ve had this peanut butter before, and it’s very mild tasting. I doesn’t trigger me like normal peanut butter does. It’s also only one net carb per serving, which is the lowest I’ve ever found.
I wonder if there’s more oil in there and less nut? This seems like it has to be some sort of magic trick. Do you guys have any thoughts?
Here’s a pic of the label of the same brand, but you don’t have to stir it. So something happens between the kind where you stir, and the kind where you don’t. 
They for some reason added sugar and palm oil to this one?
Nope, but that’s what I have in my cupboard right now. I took about a tsp of it on top of a 90% chocolate square.
You’re right that it doesn’t trigger cravings. I used to stand by the cupboard some nights with a jar of Jiffy in one hand and a large serving spoon in the other and lose myself in it until I was stuffed or the jar ran dry.
Good mention, Jennifer. Just ground up peanuts and salt. 
The 1 to 4 ratio of sugar to total carbhydrates is the same as for peanuts in general. I imagine it’s really 1.3 or 1.4 grams of sugar, rounded down, but no big deal.
So here’s my confusion: all the other peanut butters I’ve looked at that are theoretically “only peanuts and salt” are significantly higher in net carbs and carbs in general. Have you noticed that?
I hadn’t ever looked at peanut butter nutrition before.
1 cup of peanuts - 146 grams - has 24g total carbs and within that is 6g of sugar, according to Wikipedia, and 3 other websites I looked at have similar figures. As long as it’s only peanuts and salt, and if the serving size is the same, then I’d think the carbs would remain the same.
Something does not add up as far as “net carbs” and the sugar content, here - the Maranatha labeling is showing 4g total carbs with 3g being fiber and 1g being sugar, so 75% is fiber. Other places list the fiber as being ~50% or less, with there being as many or more other digestible carbs than sugar.
The nutritional info is based on a 32g serving size rather than 100g of product. Even so the carbs work out low.
I don’t trust nut and nut butter labelling at all - every brand seems to have different levels of carbs, especially peanuts. I go with about 10g net carbs per 100g and ignore the labels.
Awesome research - yes you can see why my bullshit alarm is going off.
That’s why I was wondering…is it extra oil? I don’t know the details of processing peanut butter, but do they ever skim oil off the top to make it more dense? This peanut butter is particularly liquidy in texture, even compared to other stirring-required peanut butters I’ve tried. But the extra oil wouldn’t be fibrous in nature…but it would dilute the amount of peanuts per tablespoon of butter. Maybe someone with more food knowledge than me could chime in there. But it could make it less dense possibly, which could possibly explain why the weight per 2 tablespoons is so low, as @Duncan_K mentioned.
It’s also just mysterious that this is the only peanut butter than doesn’t trigger my twitchy peanut butter cravings.
1.4g per 32 gms is 4.4% carbs. Plus these measurements are allowed some error. Dietdoctor.com shows peanuts as 7% carbs. So …
Yes, there’s a bunch of BS going on with peanuts… I googled “what percentage of peanuts is carbohydrates?” and looked at the first ten websites that gave actual broken-down numbers. There definitely is a range of figures, and looks like there is a good bit of copying information back-and-forth.
Net Carbohydrates % by weight or grams per 100 grams:
Raw: (decently consistent)
7.8
7.6
7.6
7.6
7.6
7.0
Oil Roasted:
5.9
5.9
Dry Roasted:
14.3 (Keebler)
13.4
13.4
10.6 (Planter’s)
One of the websites mentioned that it’s figures came from the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 23.
I looked at the USDA’s current statistics, and after the protein and fat content is given, it says, “Carbohydrate, by difference,” and the results look suspiciously high to me - I think this is where those higher carb numbers for dry-roasted peanuts are coming from. The math may not be working out right, or at least not consistently. Or is it that there may be hidden carbs in there?
Among the “dry-roasted” at the USDA site, looking at the Keebler statistics, total carbs is suspiciously exactly the same as protein, and the information comes from the manufacturer.
Ingredients: PEANUTS, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: SEA SALT, SUGAR, CORN STARCH, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, TORULA YEAST, SPICES (CONTAINS CELERY), PAPRIKA, DRIED ONION, DRIED GARLIC, NATURAL FLAVOR, MALTODEXTRIN. Date Available: 07/14/2017 Date Last Updated by Company: 07/14/2017
While there may be less than 2% of sugar, corn starch, corn syrup solids and maltodextrin, those four together may be bumping up the dietary carb content substantially.
I have their almond butter and it’s the same as this. It does need to be refrigerated but doesn’t need to be stirred then. So one has to wonder why then. It will separate if not into oil and sludge? I find it tastes very bland and dry. It’s taking up space now.
dry roasted peanuts are going to automatically be higher in carbs by weight because of the water lost in dry roasting.
I’ve seen various brands of roasted salted peanuts here the uk that vary wildly on net carb count - from as low as 4g/100g up to 15g/100g. All of them only list peanuts, oil and salt as the ingredients. I wonder how they get these figures?
They intentionally break ingredients up (use more than one kind of sugar) so they will fit in the “less than 2%” category. You bet your ass they bump up the carb content.
