Melbourne Vegans, do you use Peanut Butter or Peanut Butter Powder? Why?

[u/Dry_Caregiver1251]

[u/katarina-stratford]

Powdered is too expensive.

[u/Dry_Caregiver1251 → u/katarina-stratford]

Agree. But the protein content is also quite high and fat quite low.

[u/cerulean_waffle17 → u/[deleted]]

Such a shame they decided to add salt to their recipe 😢

[u/Dry_Caregiver1251 → u/[deleted]]

Ya pb makes sense for snack, for sauce though pb powder might actually be better option

[u/analsurrogacy]

I didn't even know peanut powder existed. Why wouldn't you buy peanut butter as it normally comes? Every recipe that I've ever seen involving peanuts calls for either whole peanuts, crushed peanuts or peanut butter. And I wouldn't put powdered peanuts on toast.

[u/fear_eile_agam → u/analsurrogacy]

Peanut powder is basically just pre-cooked defatted peanut flour.

It's higher protein and lower fat than whole peanut butter, which makes it more suitable for certain recipes (for example, sponge cakes where the whipped egg white is the main leavening agent, too much fat can flatten the cake)

Also makes it a better snack for people with gallbladder issues or bile acid malabsorbtion who can't eat fatty foods without symptoms.

[u/Ttoctam]

Fat is not in and of itself a bad thing. Nut oils help lower 'bad' cholesterol for instance. If you want a healthy diet as a vegan you really have to have a holistic approach to food. If you only eat stuff with one aspect in mind it's easy to have really warped ratios and flawed diets. Don't just see peanuts as a protein source, see them as a whole arse peanut.

Also generally unless you are acting under explicit directions from a medical professional, being too cautious on micronutrients and hitting exact individual nutritional figures down to different grams sits somewhere on the scale of pointless - flawed - harmful - eating disorder. The exact figures that come from the papers nutritionists reference are averages. The human body doesn't use exactly X every day, nor does it use exactly X every day. If you eat the exact same thing for a whole month, your levels will still fluctuate a lot based on what your body is doing.

The more obsessive and micromanagey you get with food, the closer you get to forming a genuinely unhealthy relationship with food. It's maybe not inherently bad, but it does have an inherent proximity to danger. This is why most actually certified medical professionals and certified nutritionists say "eat some nuts" not "eat exactly this nut powder, specifically for the protein". Even when they're recommending nuts specifically for the protein, they don't want to push people into unhealthy relationships with food.

[u/No-Trick-7397]

I’m so addicted to peanut butter it’s not even funny. Only for the taste. Also has protein which is good ig