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Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket

Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket.

Breakfast, cracker: peanut butter. Delicious! Which peanut butter tastes the best? And which is the cheapest? We tasted six different jars of store-brand peanut butter and it wasn't always easy. ‘If you eat this and laugh, then there's peanut butter stuck between your teeth.’

Peanut butter is becoming the new chocolate bar or Easter eggs, you would think when standing in front of the spreads section in the supermarket. There is peanut butter with caramel sea salt, peanut butter with chocolate chunks, with spiced nuts and one hundred percent peanuts; no additives at all. So much to choose from... For this test, we limit ourselves as a tasting panel to the regular peanut butter from the supermarket's store brand. Large jars, not expensive, but are they also tasty?

  • Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket
  • Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket
  • Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket
  • Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket
  • Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket
  • Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket

On a cracker
The differences between the various brands of peanut butter are immediately visible when we open the jars: the peanut butter from Aldi is very dark and that from Jumbo looks grainy. Smelling is difficult, the different jars are wafting together. Then we just taste: we spread dollops of peanut butter on crackers so we can taste and compare them well.

Tested: This is the tastiest (and most disgusting) store-brand peanut butter from the supermarket

Unfortunately...
What does the tasting panel expect from the ideal peanut butter? Creamy, a bit salty and sweet at the same time, spreadable and with a pronounced peanut flavor. You might find that strange, but one of the samples tastes vaguely of nuts, and not of peanuts. ‘Musty and cardboard-like,’ says Sharon. ‘These peanuts have been in a bag too long.’ And Louise says: ‘Really disappointing. This peanut butter could also be made from other nuts, it really doesn't taste like peanuts.’ That is the Helaes Peanut Butter – an appropriate name – from Aldi.

Smooth
The peanut butter they do like to dip their knife into, again and again, is the peanut butter from Dirk. ‘Deliciously creamy, with a bite. There are pieces of peanut in it,’ says Louise. ‘Also nicely salty,’ says Rick. ‘As if it's made from salty peanuts,’ says Bo. And Sharon calls it smooth and spreadable.

The peanut butter from Albert Hein is also well-liked. ‘I really taste those peanuts here again,’ says Bo. It seems a bit sweeter than the rest, but no one really minds that. G’woon (Vomar) is a bit too salty, the peanut butter from Jumbo sticks like crazy (‘If you eat this and laugh, there's peanut butter all over your teeth,’ says Bo) and the Lidl is very dry and grainy in your mouth, as if the skins of the peanuts have also been ground into the peanut butter.

We have a winner
Dirk remains the winner, even when we look at the price: a jar is only €1.79. By the way, it's not the cheapest, because that is the peanut butter from Lidl (€2.19 for a large jar with 600 grams of peanut butter), but also not the most expensive, because that is from Appie. And when we taste it, we also think it will score very well in satay sauce – good to know.