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Might be worth it to find out if your brand of peanut butter contains palm oil (many do).

https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil

That would be exactly the kind of thing I dread to know – this is the last item in my cupboard whose ingredients label I studiously avoid reading in order to keep enjoying it. But this is HN, so, let's see:

INGREDIENTS: MADE FROM ROASTED PEANUTS AND SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MOLASSES, FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS (RAPESEED AND SOYBEAN), MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT.

Oh, maybe molasses (and yes probably the salt) is the flavor note I'm hung up on.

Anyway this is such a pure food-industrial-complex product that I am sure the ingredients list amounts to a sort of cover story. FWIW the parent company scores rates just OK on the 'Palm Oil Scorecard' from your linked page: https://palmoilscorecard.panda.org/check-the-scores/manufact...

I usually buy Adam's, which would be the just-peanuts variety. I do find that it could use a little salt, so just add some. (Oh, and habanero powder out of a shaker, because nobody's peanut butter includes that.)

My parents would always buy salted Adam’s, and I remember finding the transition to unsalted difficult but satisfying.

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