Is Smucker's Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Vegan?!
PEANUTS, MALTODEXTRIN (INGREDIENTS NOT IN REGULAR NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER), REDUCED FAT GROUND PEANUTS (INGREDIENTS NOT IN REGULAR NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER), SALT.
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Nope, Maltodextrin is a milk sugar
It is vegan. Maltodextrin has a plant source. It's used to replace the fat. The product is Kosher OU, without a D. That means it doesn't have a dairy source that someone mentioned. They put a D on the OU kosher labels if there's any hidden dairy ingredient.( ou.org) I am going to recommend to stay away from the reduced fat peanut butter and instead opt for a natural peanut butter without the added ingredients. Fat is an essential nutrient in the diet, and it's good for you to have some! Smucker's makes a natural peanut butter with just peanuts, and they make one with peanuts and salt.
Remove most of the harmful fats from your diet, like transfats.
Maltodextrin is a short chained starch sugar, gelatin hybrid base, (dextrin), that is used as a food additive. It is produced also by enzymatic hydrolysis from gelatinated starch and is usually found as a creamy-white hygroscopic spraydried powder. It is of vegetable source and Vegan [see second link]
However reduced fat peanut butter doesn't save you enough on the fat to be worth eating. Just use regular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrin
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no but buy walden farms calorie free, whipped peaunut butter. it is officially vegan and DELICIOUS. it tastes like a dessert! i go through like 5 a week :) no calories either lol. what a bonus!
just bought some at the grocery store! literally.
Good answers above, but just to give you another option, you can make your own peanut butter using roasted shelled peanuts and a food processor. That is all you need. Many stores also sell peanut butters which contain nothing but peanuts.
No, reduced fat PB is worse for vegans than regular PB.
