Make peanut butter even healthier

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Here’s a healthy tip: After opening a jar of peanut butter, Eileen Plese of Joliet, Ill., stuffs a paper towel in it, puts the lid back on and turns it upside down. She leaves it overnight, and the next morning, she writes, “you wouldn’t believe how much oil has absorbed onto the paper towel!”

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RW5RYVLFBCJVNBU76IGJ4XRQ3I Nathaniel

    You also wouldn’t believe how dry and nasty the peanut butter is when you reach the bottom of the jar!

  • Norman K. Hargett

    What an idiot recommendation. The author must have their brains located in a lower region of the body. The Omega 3  in the peanut butter is in the very oils being removed and I also cannot imagine how dry and difficult to spread it must make it.

  • Cmontante

    But that’s where all the nutrients are!  That’s good oil, not transfat.

  • MarkS

    There are so many things wrong with this post.  The person making this suggestion doesn’t say whether the peanut butter is natural or “hydrogenated/homogenized”.  If it’s natural, then they just lost a lot of the nutrients.  If not, they need to switch to natural, if they’re interested in health.  Actually, if it was natural (and not just ground), much of the oil would probably be at the top of the jar, and could just be poured off (a waste), so this post makes me think it’s not the healthy stuff anyway.  Putting the paper towel on the top of the peanut butter, and then turning the jar upside down, REDUCES the amount of oil accessible to the paper towel sponge, as the peanut oil WANTS TO RISE TO THE TOP;  the amount of oil that would migrate through a jar full of peanut butter just overnight, and soak into a paper towel ON THE BOTTOM, isn’t a large percentage of the oil in a jar anyway.

  • Mst1

    It is the same amount of calories and fat……without the oil it is hardly spreadable.   dorothy t

  • dorothy t

    Nut butteer  has the same amount of fat and calories with or without the oil.  Nut butter is hardly spreadable without the oil.   dottie t

  • Crcahamilton

    People are sooo mean to make nasty comment all suggestiond are not meant for everyone. There us a saying take what you need and leave the rest. Get a life and try not to make someone else feel bad