Warning: A Promite vs Vegemite vs Marmite thread...

[Joe Guy]

I haven't tried Promite yet but I was looking on Amazondotcom and noticed something interesting:

Marmite ingredients - Yeast Extract, Salt, Vegetable Extract, Niacin, Thiamin, Spice Extract, (contain Celery), Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12, 100% Vegetarian

Vegemite ingredients - Concentrated yeast extract. yeast extract from yeast grown barley. salt, mineral, salt (508), malt extract from barley, colour (150c), flavours, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, folate.

Promite ingredients -Vegetable Protein Extract, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Water, Colour (Caramel, 150c) Salt, Cornflower (From Wheat), Glucose Syrup (From Wheat), Onion, Emulsifier (Glycerol Monostearate), Thickener (Modified Cornstarch), Food Acid (Citric), Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamin, Riboflavin), Vegetable Gum (Carrageenan), Flavour Enhancers (627, 631), Spice Extract.

Lot's of stuff in that Promite product...

[Econoline]

...Cornflower (From Wheat)...

? ? ? ? ?

[Gob]

Cornflour may be:

Cornmeal, flour ground from dried corn
Corn starch ('cornflour' in the UK), the white, powdered starch of the maize grain
Masa, the flour of hominy
Wheat starch, in Australia

[Gob]

That highlights why I wish we could get proper Marmite here Joe, it's a useful source of B12 for non meat eaters.

[Econoline]

...and to further confuse you, Joe: Cenovis

[Joe Guy]

I went to Amazon and did a search for Cenovis and the 1st result was a jar of Marmite. Then a bunch of Cenovis products like fish oil, garlic caps and vitamins.

I'm going to try Promite but I'm not going for the Cenovis.

I'm so confused....

So far, Vegemite is my preferred 'mite' but I'll be checking out the Promite and post a review (I'm sure everyone is excited about that & very interested in my decision).

btw - I wonder if Gob or any other unAmericans have tried peanut butter....?

[Gob]

Have it regularly, there's a deli down at the markets which makes it fresh to order. Love the stuff.

[Sean]

Peanut butter is very common outside the US Joe...

[Crackpot]

You're welcome

[Gob]

Evidence of peanut butter as it is known today comes from U.S. Patent 306,727, issued in 1884 to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the finished product of the process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts entered "a fluid or semi-fluid state." As the peanut product cooled, it set into what Edson explained as being "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment"

Cheer Scoot!

[Joe Guy]

Peanut butter is very common outside the US Joe...

Oh.... I thought peanut butter was strictly a U.S. thing.

But What do I know?

When I was a kid I thought Winston Churchill was a tobacco company.

[Econoline]

After discovering its existence this morning I finally figured out how to order Cenovis directly from the manufacturer in Switzerland, but when I got to the price it seemed like the only way you could order it was in a carton of 6 jars for 48 Swiss francs (or $56.50 US or €40). (Here's the link; if it only shows the price in CHF there's a little "currency" box in the lower right hand corner that you can use to change it to dollars or euros.) I'm sorta curious...but not quite that curious. But if I ever do decide to spend the money and order some, or if I ever find myself in Switzerland, I'll be sure to send you a jar, Joe.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I will leave this thread to those who eat/care.

[Crackpot]

I will leave this thread to those who eat/care.

I thought you gave up the liquid diet.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I find unsweetened ice tea takes care of my nutritius needs.

[Gob]

Britons shelled out more than £1million a week for peanut butter last year resulting in sales of the savoury spread reaching a record high.

As jam and marmalade fall out of favour, new research reveals peanut butter is now the popular choice of spread for many. According to market analysts Mintel, sales of peanut butter have increased by 20 per cent in the past two years, growing from £47 million to £56 million in 2012.

Volume sales increased by a similar amount of 17 per cent over the same period, to reach nearly 60 million jars.
As peanut butter sales rocket, sweet toothed Britons have also been splashing out on chocolate spread with sales up 24 per cent to £46 million in 2012.

Almost one in 10 (seven per cent) Britons have switched from jam or marmalade to peanut butter or chocolate spread.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2Oi01UYtz

[oldr_n_wsr]

I like peanuts, be them whole, halved, honey roasted, salted, cocktail or butter. Peanuts are good.
I usually go through half a jar a night.
And Peanut butter on Ritz crackers are a great snack (even a meal sometimes).

[Joe Guy]

Peanut butter is one of the best ... No... It is THE BEST SPREAD ever made.

I prefer chunky unsalted p-nut butter with nothing else added. The ones made with sugar and other garbage are terrible. I don't know if it is still marketed, but I have seen P-nut butter with jelly added.

So I usually buy Skippy or Adams natural mix. The kind you need to stir & refrigerate.

Are there other good brands I've not heard of?

For p-nut butter to have good flavor it just needs to taste like p-nuts without sugar or other additives.

[Gob]

I prefer chunky unsalted p-nut butter with nothing else added. The ones made with sugar and other garbage are terrible. I don't know if it is still marketed, but I have seen P-nut butter with jelly added.

I have to agree, the stuff that is made up to order down the local deli is 100% peanut and nothing else. You watch them fill the hopper, and out the bottom comes, well, what looks like it comes out of a bottom.

I prefer mine as crunchy as poss.

Joe, you really should try a sandwitch of PNB and mar/veg/promite combined togther, (heavy on the PNB light on the mite, of course.)

I love it, I also have that combination with Blue Cheese. Or at least I did before the quack made me give up cheese.

[Lord Jim]

Peanut butter is one of the best ... No... It is THE BEST SPREAD ever made.

Well, I hate to sound like an elitist Santa Cruz pseudo-scientist, but cashew spread is even better...

But I still have a love of peanut butter, going back to my childhood, (and poverty stricken college days...)

Personally, I'm a Peter Pan fan...(it's less sweet than Jiff or Skippy, but it's nowhere near as tasteless as the oil on top "natural" peanut butters I've tried...)

And of course it's a staple in our household, because the kids love it...(I like it "au natural" on a Ritz cracker, but they prefer it in a sandwich with an equal portion of apple butter or jam or jelly)