I use natural peanut butter that doesnât have sugar added or hydrogenated oils . When my BG is low ,I first use something like jellybeans to raise the BG then Iâll take some peanut butter to stabllize it. But sorry itâs not on the free food list.
Ok. I was wondering what was in it though. Maybe in Canada there might be different version of the product.
When I look up on the Skippy website the basic creamy version. I get 7 grams of protein, 7 carbs, 2 fiber and 3 sugars. The ingredients are just roasted peanuts, some hydrogenated oils (not really good for you but shouldnât effect BG as far I know) and some salt. No sugar which is good. Most of the regular Skippy do not have sugar (except the Honey ones or the Reduced fat ones)
http://www.peanutbutter.com/nutrition_creamy.html
Which version are you using? I donât see any Skippys on the website that match your label info. The Reduced Fat Skippy do have corn syrup solids in them at 15 grams of carbs per serving but that doensât seem to match your label. 
I was wondering about this, KimKat, because at least here in the U.S. I was sure that popular brands such as Skippy had sugar. I just clicked on the link you provided, and read the ingredients and the second ingredient was sugar!
Opps, how did I miss that sugar 2nd ingredient on the label. Thanks Zoe! Ok, my bad. I had too many windows open on my computer! Looks like ALL the Skippys have sugar of some sort. - or honey or/and corn syrup. I just double checked them all. Even the natural ones have sugar.
Funny how my natural brand of WF Unsweetened has no sugar but the nutritional info is the same pretty much. I think Skippy is lying on their labels.
Peanut butter like keeps you at a stable bloodsugar. One time i was like 65 and just had peanut butter but made me drop even lower and my blood sugar wouldnât go up.
No problem, KimKat. Yes, that is a bit strange, that the nutritional info is the same and I wouldnât be a bit surprised if Skippy was lying! I never eat the popular brands of nut butter but luckily shop in a supermarket that has not only lots of âhealth foodâ brands but their own fresh ground and packed almond, peanut and cashew butter!
That reminds me of a cool story. Before my diabetes diagnosis I hadnât eaten sugar for many years and used to drink a soda called Crystal Geyser Juice Squeeze which was a combo of soda and juice without sugar, one of the rare such drinks without sugar OR artificial sweetener, but just natural flavors. I loved the stuff (couldnât touch it now!). I mentioned it to a coworker who was stopping sugar and she swore it had sugar in it and showed me the label to prove it. What! Iâd been drinking it for years and had stopped reading the label. I e-mailed the company to complain saying they had obviously changed their formula, that it had held an important niche, and that many peopleâŚâmaybe even diabeticsââŚprobably thought they were still drinking a sugar free product. They wrote back that many people had complained and that they were going to start making two versions of the product, clearly labelled and sent me $5 in coupons for free drinks!
Cool! I hope the coupons were not for the sugar version of the drinks! What would be the point in your having free coupons for stuff you canât have!
Nope, it was for whichever I wanted. If I remember correctly, soon after that they went back to making only the sugarfree version; maybe they realized that they were the only ones who made a product like that (there were a few others you could only find in specialty/health food stores) and there were already enough drinks with sugar!
Peanut butter has a lot of fat in it, Alyssa, so probably your blood sugar was on its way further down anyway, and the peanut butter wouldnât do anything to raise it for a couple hours. (and if it was a small amount, maybe not even that!)
Believe it or not, for most lunches since kindergarten I have eaten a peanut butter sandwich. I am 46 now, and I was diagnosed at 33 with Type I. I guess thatâs a lot of peanut butter sandwiches! I tend to eat my sandwich now on a high fiber whole wheat bread and take 1 - 3 units of Humalog depending on activity level. I tend to use the Skippy Natural. For me, peanut butter has been a great food for all the reasons everybody has mentioned. While not a free food, it does fill me up and gives me a fairly steady bg until late afternoon snack or dinner.
Peter
Ingredients: freshly roasted peanuts, soybean oil, maltodextrin, icing sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil, salt.
I looked at every different kind and brand of peanut butter in the grocery store (natural, chunky, creamy, organic, no salt, etc.) and every type had very similar nutritional information, even when the ingredients were different.
Depending on what kind of stores you have nearby, you might have to go to a health food store. I can get several brands of nut butter without any of that crap, and Iâm surprised there isnât at least one healthy brand, yikes!
I can get Smuckerâs natural & organic peanut butter in my supermarket & I live in the boonies. Only ingredients are peanuts & salt.
With a good blender, or food processor, easy to make peanut butter.
Icing sugar? geez, why does that sound even worse than regular sugar? Sound like you could start frosting some cupcakes right from the jar!
That said, I find it hard to believe that there are only 2 carbs in that 1 tablespoon if there is sugar in the PB. My unsweetened one has 7 carbs per 2 tablespoon and there is no sugar. There is something amiss here.
I would really try to find an another PB with no sugar. Funny I the the unsweetened ones on the shelves of regular grocery stores - although you are in Canda so I donât know what it is like there. Unsweetened peanut butter is not an uncommon thing though.
Once you find one, I would do comparsion testing with your numbers. Eat same meal with each peanut butter and see what happens. I donât trust that icing sugar - no matter what the label says.
I was wondering about icing sugar also! My Smuckerâs Natural is 6 carbs for 2 TBS. Ingredients are peanuts & salt.
second that. the rise will be slow with PB.
Id run to smarties for their glucose or treetop apple juice for the fructose. smarties are 7 carbs a twist, tree top are 20 carbs per can.
I think you are misunderstanding. What I am saying is the âhealth foodâ versions of peanut butter (plus every other kind) all have very similar nutritional information, even when the ingredients are different.
The natural PB and organic PB, for example, even though the ingredient list says (somewhat defensively) ânothing but 100% freshly roasted peanuts,â the carb count is the same.
I agree that the maltodextrin and icing sugar are bad, but maybe there isnât that much of them?
Gosh I wish we could test the carb in food ourselves. It would be nice to know if and when food labels are lying to us.
I canât stand the taste of natural peanut butter, and itâs so dry.
Well, I find it very hard to believe that something with sugar in it would only be 3 carbs a tablespoon. Event though it is close to the natural version it is still lower which raises a red flag to me (your sugar one is 6 carbs for 2 tblspoons, natural version 7 carbs for 2 tablespoons).
The only reason I can think of this being would be that your PB is âcheapenedâ (or as I think of âwateredâ or âoiledâ down) with all those unnecessary hydrogenated oils. Pure peanut butter has lots of its own oil and doesnât need any extra. Putting in extra oil will make possible for them to put less real peanut butter in there so my guess is that they âguessimateâ their carbs/sugars based on that.
Regardless, of what the nutritional label says, the sugar may still have an effect on your BG because well it is sugar and sugar will behave differently at raising your BG than straight pure peanut butter by self. Just because it is added into the peanut butter doesnât mean it may not have any effect on your body.
And of course the food people are going to skew the labels to look like it is less fat, less carbs etc etc. They want you to buy their product. Surprise, surprise - but they honestly do not care whether they lie to us unfortunately. A product like this doesnât have diabetics in mind, believe me. All they see is $$.
Another thing you can do maybe just eat some regular peanuts and see what happens to your BG, if you canât find the PB without sugar in it. Most unsweetned natural PBs are just peanuts and salt so it is basically the same thing.
You want to see what is causing your problem and find out whether or not you can really just not eat peanut butter or is it that icing sugar that is causing it.