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Peanut butter: what's actually in it?

Peanut butter splits cleanly into two kinds. One kind is peanuts, plus salt at most. The other kind is peanuts plus sugar and an added oil or stabiliser to stop it separating — and the word "natural" on the jar does not tell you which kind you have. Skippy Natural, for example, still lists sugar and palm oil.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed, flags added sugar and added oil, and explains the jargon, so you can compare like with like.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Peanuts + salt only: Pic's, Fix & Fogg, Mayver's and Byron Bay (Little Farms) all follow this pattern — typically about 99.3–99.5% peanuts, the rest sea salt. No added sugar, no added oil. Forty Thieves Smooth and Crunchy and Adams 100% Natural (Crunchy/Creamy), added in the 5 November 2026 re-audit, follow the same pattern — Forty Thieves Smooth is 100% peanuts; Adams adds at most 1% salt. Scoop Wholefoods' own peanut butter is not panelled: it is sold by weight from in-store grinding stations, and no printed ingredient list was retrievable — see seen-but-not-verified.
• Peanuts + sugar + oil: Skippy Creamy and Jif Creamy both add sugar and a hydrogenated vegetable oil "to prevent separation". Skippy Natural swaps the hydrogenated oil for palm oil but keeps the sugar.
• "Natural" is not a regulated ingredient claim here. Jif Natural lists peanuts, sugar, palm oil, salt and molasses. Do not read "natural" as "peanuts only" — read the list.
• Texture words are not ingredient words. Smooth, crunchy, chunky, extra crunchy and "smunchy" (smooth + crunchy) describe grind and peanut pieces, not whether sugar or oil was added. Check the list, not the texture word.
• Every peanut butter on this page contains peanut. That is the allergen to flag; several also list may-contain traces of tree nuts, sesame, soy, milk or gluten from shared lines — see the panels.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 23 products (15 before this re-audit, 8 added 5 November 2026: Forty Thieves Smooth, Crunchy and Chocolate Superfood; Adams Crunchy and Creamy; Fix & Fogg Dark Roast Super Crunchy, Dark Chocolate and Smoke and Fire). Seen-but-not-verified: 15 entries below.

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Sweetened spreads — sugar and added oil

Peanuts + salt only — the natural jars

Re-audit additions — Forty Thieves, Adams and more Fix & Fogg (checked 5 Nov 2026)

Stephen's spot-check found Forty Thieves, Adam's and Scoop missing from the first version. All three were verified in this re-audit: Forty Thieves and Adams are sold in Singapore (FairPrice and Cold Storage; Forty Thieves also via its Singapore distributor Cold Front Co. and its Shopee SG official store) and are panelled below. Scoop is a different case — see seen-but-not-verified.

Little Farms — Byron Bay (checked 6 Nov 2026)

Little Farms (littlefarms.com) stocks an Australian small-batch range that the big supermarkets do not carry in the same form. Two Byron Bay variants are panelled below from the Little Farms ingredient lines; the unsalted versions are not panelled as verbatim, because the Little Farms pages describe them ("no added salt", "hi-oleic Australian peanuts roasted and smashed") without giving a full ingredient line — see seen-but-not-verified.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Byron Bay Smooth / Chunky (Unsalted), Little Farms — listed, described as hi-oleic Australian peanuts with no added salt; no full ingredient line retrieved. Needs a pack/Little Farms ingredient-section check.
• Alfie's Crunchy Dark Roasted Peanut Butter, Little Farms — described as "100% dark roasted Australian peanuts"; that is a description, not a retrieved pack ingredient list, so it is not panelled as verbatim.
• Skippy Extra Crunchy / Chunky, Skippy No Sugar Added (Creamy / Chunky), Skippy Protein, Skippy Natural Chunky, Skippy with Honey — range exists overseas and via import listings; SG pack lists not verified in this pass. US lists retrieved for two of them — Natural Chunky: Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Palm Oil, Salt; No Sugar Added: Roasted Peanuts, Palm Oil, Salt — but those are US lists, not SG packs. Do not assume the Creamy list applies to them.
• Jif Crunchy, Jif Reduced Fat, Jif Simply — overseas listings exist (one Crunchy listing adds corn syrup solids, pea protein and vitamins/minerals — a very different list); SG pack lists not verified.
• Fix & Fogg Everything Butter — seed blend; no verified list retrieved. (Dark Chocolate and Smoke and Fire were panelled in the 5 Nov 2026 re-audit — see panels.)
• Mayver's Smunchy 5 Seeds, Mayver's Chocolate Protein+ — seed/chocolate blends. A Spoonful listing for 5 Seeds gives Peanuts, Peanut Flour, (Chia Seeds, Linseeds, Sunflower Seeds, Pepitas, Quinoa) (5%) & Salt, but SG sale of this specific variant was not confirmed in this pass (the retailers shown are Australian); no list was found for Chocolate Protein+. Not panelled.
• Pic's Salted Caramel / Chocolate — flavoured Pic's variants; no verified list retrieved.
• Kraft Peanut Butter (Smooth / Crunchy) — no SG retailer evidence was found in the 5 Nov 2026 re-audit: every Kraft listing retrieved was Canada/France, so the earlier "widely sold in Singapore" claim was not corroborated. One non-SG secondary listing gives Select roasted peanuts, Soybean oil, Corn maltodextrin, Sugar, Hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed and rapeseed oil), Salt, Mono- and diglycerides — not cross-checked to an SG pack, so it is not panelled.
• Smucker's Natural Creamy — overseas comparison lists "Peanuts, Contains 1% Or Less Of Salt" (no added sugar); no SG retailer evidence was found in the 5 Nov 2026 re-audit, so SG availability/pack is not verified.
• Scoop Wholefoods own-label peanut butter — Scoop sells "Scoop Peanut Butter" on its Singapore online shop (scoopwholefoodsshop.com, out of stock at check) and freshly ground peanut butter at in-store nut-butter stations (Raffles City, Jem, Tanglin Mall, Great World), described in guides as 100% natural peanut with no added oils or sugar, sold by weight. It is bulk / in-store-ground, not a jarred product with a printed ingredient list: no verbatim list and no nutrition panel was retrievable from the Scoop shop or any listing in this pass. Not panelled; closing it needs an in-store check.
• Forty Thieves Chocolate Fudge (290g) and Cinnamon Donut (290g) — both listed at FairPrice and via Cold Front Co. / Shopee SG, but only partial lists were retrieved: Chocolate Fudge per the Shopee SG description is hi-oleic peanuts (61%), chocolate (24%) [cocoa solids (35%), sugar, maize starch], cashews, sunflower oil, salt (the listing itself gives 24% and 24.5% for the chocolate in different places); Cinnamon Donut per the same store is hi-oleic peanuts (76%), sugar, sunflower oil, almonds, then the description is cut off. Partial lists only — not panelled until a full SG pack list is retrieved.
• Adams 100% Natural — Unsalted Crunchy (454g) — listed at FairPrice, but the page retrieved showed no ingredient or nutrition section (origin USA only). Do not infer "peanuts only" — needs a pack check.
• Adams 100% Natural — Dark Roast Creamy — mentioned via Holland & Barrett SG and an old blog post; no ingredient list retrieved.
• FairPrice / Giant / Sheng Siong house-brand peanut butter, Donki Japanese peanut butters, Mustafa peanut butter range — not inventoried with verified lists in this pass; needs in-store/pack checks.
• Ridiculously Delicious Peanut Butter Bar — Cherry Coconut, Little Farms — deliberately excluded from panels: it is a peanut-butter bar (peanut blend, rice syrup, dark chocolate, cherries, coconut), not a peanut-butter spread. Listed here so it is not mistaken for a missing spread.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g. Peanut butter is sold by weight, so per-100 g is the pack basis; no per-serving conversion has been made. No Nutri-Grade applies to peanut butter as a non-drink, and none is quoted or assigned here.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Total vs added sugars: most Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as “added sugar”. Where a source states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted in the research notes. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sucrose, sugar, glucose syrup) versus naturally occurring sugars (lactose in milk, fructose in fruit).

Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked “not stated” were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours.

Observed numbers, no verdict: among the rows above, Skippy Creamy and Skippy Natural Creamy each list 9.4 g sugar per 100 g, Jif Creamy and Jif Natural Creamy each list 9.1 g, Fix & Fogg Smooth lists 5.3 g, Mayver's Smooth lists 4.0 g, and Pic's Crunchy (salted) lists 3.7 g. The sugars in the peanuts-only jars are the peanuts' own sugars plus, where salted, no added sugar in the ingredient list; the sugars in the Skippy/Jif rows sit alongside sugar/molasses in their ingredient lists. Sodium ranges from 140 mg per 100 g (Fix & Fogg Smooth) to 469 mg per 100 g (Skippy Creamy/Natural) where stated. Total sugars are shown, not added sugars: Open Food Facts added-sugars estimates for Skippy/Jif vary by listing and are not quoted here as pack figures. Forty Thieves Smooth, added in this re-audit, lists 1.6 g sugars and 13 mg sodium per 100 g — the lowest sugar and sodium figures in the per-100 g table. The two Adams rows are per 32 g serving and are not comparable with the per-100 g rows; they are shown only so the FairPrice listing errors (0 kJ energy; Salt 0 g against Sodium 90 mg) are on the record rather than silently corrected.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Pic's Smooth (salted and no-salt), Pic's Smoochy, Fix & Fogg Super Crunchy, Fix & Fogg Dark Roast Super Crunchy, Fix & Fogg Dark Chocolate, Fix & Fogg Smoke and Fire, Forty Thieves Crunchy, Forty Thieves Chocolate Superfood, Mayver's Extra Crunchy, Mayver's Dark Roasted Crunchy, Mayver's Protein+ Smunchy, Byron Bay Smooth/Chunky (salted, Little Farms), and Singapore-made Creamy Peanut Butter (Asia Canning). In particular, Pic's Smooth/Smoochy and the other Mayver's/Fix & Fogg textures are not given the Crunchy/Smooth figures above — a different texture or variant needs its own figures. Their ingredient panels are unchanged.

How to read a peanut butter label — the jargon, in plain English

Hydrogenated vegetable oil / fully hydrogenated vegetable oil

Vegetable oil that has been hardened by hydrogenation so it stays solid and stops the peanut oil separating. "Fully" hydrogenated means the oil is saturated, not partly hydrogenated. Its job on the label is texture and shelf stability, not flavour.

Mono- and diglycerides

Emulsifiers — they help oil and peanut solids stay mixed instead of separating.

Hi-oleic peanuts

A peanut variety bred for higher oleic (monounsaturated) fat content. It is still peanuts; the variety name does not add an ingredient.

Dextrose / molasses / corn syrup solids

All added sweeteners. Dextrose is glucose; molasses is a syrup by-product of sugar refining; corn syrup solids are dried corn syrup. If any of them appears, the jar has added sugar even if the word "sugar" does not appear.

"Natural"

On these jars, a marketing word, not an ingredient guarantee. Skippy Natural and Jif Natural both contain sugar and palm oil. Always read past the front of the jar.

Oil separation

In peanuts-only jars, peanut oil rises to the top and salt can settle — the brands themselves say to stir. That separation is the sign no stabiliser was added, not a fault.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. A peanuts-only jar and a sweetened spread are different products, and this page does not rank them.
• Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
• Not complete. House-brand, Donki, Mustafa and flavoured ranges listed above are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden. Scoop is accounted for in seen-but-not-verified (in-store ground, no printed list retrievable).

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: Open Food Facts listings (Skippy, Jif, Pic's, Mayver's, Asia Canning Singapore product) cross-checked against retailer/brand pages; Pic's official NZ site (Smoochy, Crunchy); Fix & Fogg wholesale/retailer listings; Mayver's official AU site; Little Farms Singapore product pages for Byron Bay and Alfie's. Re-audit 5 November 2026: FairPrice ingredient sections (Adams 100% Natural Crunchy; Fix & Fogg Dark Roast Super Crunchy); Cold Storage listing (Adams 100% Natural Creamy); Cold Front Co. Singapore distributor pages (Forty Thieves Smooth, Chocolate Superfood) and Cold Front Co. Official Store on Shopee SG (Forty Thieves Crunchy, Chocolate Fudge, Cinnamon Donut); Scoop Wholefoods Singapore shop and in-store nut-butter station guides (no list retrievable); Spoonful secondary listings (Fix & Fogg Dark Chocolate, Mayver's 5 Seeds, Skippy US variants). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100 g or per 100 ml where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled. Open Food Facts is a community database: its listings are useful for cross-checking, but the pack and the retailer's ingredient section take precedence if they disagree.