Peanut Butter

Peanut butter always makes a tasty sandwich, but peanut butter can be both good or bad, depending on how it is made in the recipe.

Ingredients
Experts say that the nutrition quality of peanut butter is dependant on the ingredients used to make the peanut butter, though this basis is consistent with many other food products.

Roasted Peanuts
In order to make peanut butter, of course you'll need peanuts, but peanut butter forms is it gets roasted at certain temperatures. This doesn't take away many essential nutrients, such as niacin. Therefore, roasted peanuts is a healthy ingredient in peanut butter.

Salt
A pinch of salt in peanut butter isn't going to hurt much, and can actually give 5% more of the daily iodine you need. But if you do more than a pinch of salt, there will be too much sodium in the peanut butter, causing it to become unhealthy, so when you are looking to buy peanut butter, make sure that the salt is around the bottom of the list of ingredients.

Vegetable Oils
Vegetable oils are not common in most peanut butter brands, because they are only found in the two most famous peanut butters, Skippy and JIF, which happen to be the most unhealthy peanut butters you can buy.

You may have been taught in the media that vegetable oils are good for you, but in what way? They actually can raise your cholesterol levels in a very bad way, causing problems. Thankfully, vegetable oils aren't found in most brands, so either make homemade peanut butter or find brands that don't use vegetable oils in their peanut butter.

Overall Nutrition
The nutrition overall in peanut butter are actually pretty good, and can be something you could add in your diet. The only problem is that it is relatively high in saturated fat. Even though peanut butter is good for you and it's protein source, make sure you don't eat too much of it. Too much of anything, even healthy products, will not lead to good health.

Bad or Good?
It can be both, but it's definitely more on the good side. The healthiest peanut butter is homemade; when you simply roast peanuts. This is a really healthy alternative to Nutella that you can add to your day-to-day sandwiches without all the added sugar!