Comments on: Why doesn’t peanut butter go bad?

By: tuna

tuna — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:54:41 +0000

I’m just getting over 3 days of severe cramping and violent “rejection” from eating PB that isn’t 6 months old. It does, however, have white and dark brown fungi growing in spots. Wish I had turned on the light while preparing it. where did that come from?

Crunchy.

By: vanessa

vanessa — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:19:28 +0000

This was an extremely interesting article. I woke up with the worse urge to eat a pb&j sandwich and I was just debating whether I should eat it or not because the pb has been sitting back there for months but now I know it won’t kill me so I will make sandwich :)

By: Perry

Perry — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:26:34 +0000

I grew up with creamy, and was deprived of the goodness which is crunchy. But perhaps my love of crunchy is all in my head since eating it now is (at least in my mind) somehow making up for all those years I didn’t have it.

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:07:01 +0000

That would explain a lot (like why the jar of PB is still good even though it has been sitting around in the basement pantry for a year). Smooth gets my vote because it’s easier to spead

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:40:38 +0000

I vote for crunchy. But in all seirousness the best is the kind at WF that comes straight from the peanuts themselves with a mere flip of a switch. Adam, nice article.

By: BJ

BJ — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:10:21 +0000

Wow!

Good to know. I’ve often noticed that peanut butter usually doesn’t go bad. I wouldn’t have assumed it was because of a low moisture content. Fascinating.

Now I’ll have a staple food to stock up on for the Rapture. Nuclear Holocaust be damned! Randification will be one less thing to worry about while I’m repopulating the species with my peanut buttery offspring!