MaraNatha: awesome peanut butter for organic-minded moms

With the recent peanut product recalls due to an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, everyone is concerned about peanut butter, even President Obama. While major national brands of jarred peanut butter were not among the products recalled, many moms are still wary of buying anything with peanuts. So let me assure you that MaraNatha® Peanut Butters, which are produced in the United States, do not contain peanut butter produced by the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA).

MaraNatha peanut butters are made in small batches with a special grinding process using carefully roasted Organic Valencia or Natural Runner peanut varietals. Their peanut butters come several ways: creamy and crunchy, either with or without salt. They also produce no-stir varieties and an organic peanut spread with added calcium.

All natural peanut butter – better tasting and better for you

I love peanut butter and was a Skippy kid from way back. Then I started reading labels and realized that many commercial brands had fillers and too much added sugar and salt. Yuck! So I starting buying peanut butters that used 100% peanuts and maybe a little salt.

Problem was that you had to stir the ground peanuts with the oil. What a pain! Either you’d have greasy peanut butter at the top, good peanut butter in the middle, and then some hardened stuff that you think was made out of peanuts at the bottom. Recently, when trying to stir the hardened stuff, the oil went shooting out of the jar and on to a now permanently stained pair of yoga pants and t-shirt. I was ready to try another brand.