Palm oil makes peanut butter healthier and fresher | Letter

Organic palm oil is an ethical alternative to hydrogenated fat and stops peanut butter tasting rancid, writes Craig Sams As one of the co-founders of Whole Earth Foods (though no longer an owner of the company), I feel compelled to comment on your writer’s disparaging remarks about palm oil in peanut butter (The food filter: who makes the best crunchy peanut butter?, 11 January).In our early days we said “oil separation is natural, just stir it back in”. When we learned how roasting makes peanut oil prone to rancidity, with negative health and flavour effects, we looked at ways of stabilising it to stop this happening, without using hydrogenated fat like other leading brands. Continue reading...