Pics Peanut Butter - Crunchy Peanut Butter, No Salt - Made in New Zealand - 13.4oz

Trust me, there is no better peanut butter around. We will only buy this peanut butter (no salt) and start to panic when we are running low. So we decided to buy the bigger size and save these smaller bottles as our "in case of emergency."

Pics Peanut Butter - Crunchy Peanut Butter, No Salt - Made in New Zealand - 13.4ozis quite good. It is not that much better or noticeably better than any of several American made, so called natural peanut butter. For the record, the front of the bottle proclaims no salt, the text on the back of the bottle states that the bottle contains peanuts and salt. This is for you to decide. It is good but…If there is one thing that is literally as American as Apple Pie it is peanut butter. Allowing for those with nut allergies, American households for generation have stared peanut butter. The staple of almost every American childhood and even my captain conserves his paycheck b eating peanut butter for lunch. Peanut Butter is an American invention.peanutbutterlovers.com/pb-lovers/pb101/history/ states that Kellogg originally patented a peanut butter process in 1895 and that in 1904 quote: C.H. Sumner introduced peanut butter to the world at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis. He sold $705.11 of the treat at his concession stand! close quoteMy strong preference is for crunchy peanut butter made of nothing but peanuts and a little salt. This version tends to be sold as natural. I tend to agree that PB made with things like sugar and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, however native to nature seem un-natural in peanut butter.Keeping with my preference for unadulterated Peanut Butter, Pics gets it right on contents. They also do better than some of their American competition by including enough peanut bits (the crunch in crunchy) to insure that the jar of crunchy style has crunch all the way to the bottom. Too often crunchy can mean a few bits of peanut got past the filters and so the jar was relabeled. Natural peanut butter tends to separate, oil to the top and requiring you to stir the contents into a more readily spreadable consistency. In my case this was a weakness of the Pic’s brand. Once mixed and refrigerated, the contents were most un-spreadable and a hazard to all but the hardiest cracker. Even freshly toasted bread could not always melt the congealed butter.Pic’s Crunchy Peanut butter is good, but it is not hard to find an American made brand that is good or better.