In fact, my father-in-law Tony declared Great Value to be the best-tasting peanut butter hands down! However, the rave reviews stopped there. The least expensive brand in our survey – by far – did pick up two votes for the best-tasting peanut butter.
Price per ounce: $0.10 (the least expensive brand sampled) She wrote down this one-word evaluation: “Crappy.” (Along with a smiley-face.) As for the dog, it only took him 78 licks to finish his sample, making Peter Pan the least creamy of the five surveyed peanut butter brands. On the other hand, Nina wasn’t impressed. Aunt Doris lauded the Peter Pan for its fresh peanut flavor. Here now, in reverse order, is a summary of the peanut butter taste test results, based upon the inputs of my expert panel:Īlthough it did manage to score two blue ribbons from the panelists, Peter Pan didn’t fare so well with the remaining experts.
To keep things as close to a peanuts-to-peanuts comparison as possible, I purposely avoided organic and other “natural” peanut butters. I ran down to my local Albertsons supermarket and bought four brands of smooth peanut butter that they were offering for sale I also stopped by my local WalMart and picked up their store brand. Introducing The Peanut Butter Competitors My hypothesis: more licks suggests a creamier peanut butter.Īs always, before we get to the results, let’s once again meet our distinguished - not to mention choosy - panel of expert, um, mothers:Īge: Classified (Hint: It rhymes with “orange.”)Īge: 7 (By the way, Major’s vet tells me 7 is the new 6.) To do that I gave our pampered pooch a teaspoon of the peanut butter and then counted how many licks he took to completely swallow the sample. In another completely unscientific bonus test, I also utilized the dog to evaluate peanut butter smoothness. Using the Dog to Evaluate Peanut Butter Creaminess
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The panel was also free to note any accompanying comments they had regarding each sample. To ensure the taste test was a blind comparison, the original labels were removed and replaced with generic markings “A” through “E.”Īs with my recent ketchup taste test, the experts were asked to taste and then rank each peanut butter for taste and texture, from best to worst, with five points for the top performer and one point for the worst. With the panel in place, I placed five jars of smooth peanut butter on the table. For this experiment I managed to round up eight fearless volunteers (plus the dog, of course). But what if they aren’t?Īs with most of my other product taste tests, I recruited a bunch of family members as an expert panel. Yes, the odds are good that those chunks are nothing more than chopped peanuts. That being said, most Americans’ passion for peanut butter doesn’t stop after childhood.Īnd in case you’re wondering, a recent study found that 49% of consumers prefer smooth peanut butter, while just 29% prefer the crunchy stuff the rest like their peanut butter both ways.įrankly, I don’t see how anybody can eat crunchy peanut butter when I bite into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich I don’t want to be feeling chunks of anything in my mouth. Before the average American kid gets his high school diploma he or she will supposedly eat 1500 peanut butter sandwiches.
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