Peanut Butter!

I eat this stuff almost everyday... I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! I thought it'd be interesting to research peanut butter because if it's bad for me I'll know to eat less of it and if it's good for me, even better =)

So... "the #1 choice of choosy mom's" includes the following ingredients:

*roasted peanuts and sugar

*molasses = A By-product, a secondary product deriving from a manufacturing process.

*fully hydrogenated vegetable oils = Hydrogenation is the chemical process in which liquid vegetable oil is turned into solid fat.When liquid vegetable oil is fully hydrogenated, almost no trans fats remain. The resulting fat is a solid, hard, waxy consistency, even at room temperature. Full hydrogenation increases the amount of saturated fat, although much of it is in the form of stearic acid, which is converted by the body to oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat, which doesn't raise levels of bad cholesterol. This makes fully hydrogenated fats less harmful than partially hydrogenated fats.

*mono- and diglycerides = Monoglycerides and diglycerides allow a food processor to mix oil and water in a process known as emulsification. This very useful property makes monoglycerides and diglycerides a common food additive to extend shelf life. At high temperatures, triglycerides are capable of rearranging into monoglycerides and diglycerides.