Salt

Recently I found myself wondering why the vegan margarine here tastes like nothing. I miss Earth Balance so much! Turns out it's probably the salt: Earth Balance has 2.5 times the salt of the Australian margarine (per 100g, EB has 857mg salt. The margarine we get here has 340mg).

Then I realised that this could be the reason that peanut butter here is also terrible. Yep: the Aussie version has about half the salt of the American one (650mg per 100g, vs 1250 mg*).

This is how I came to be sprinkling salt on my peanut butter sandwich. It was delicious!

photo from:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/selva/ / CC BY-NC 2.0

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* UPDATE: This can't be right. These numbers look much too high and the American one in particular is unbelievable. According to this link, the American PB we ate has only 281mg per 100g, and our current Australian brand has 375mg. So maybe Australian PB is terrible for some other reason. Probably part of the problem is that I haven't been able to find a PB here that just contains peanuts and salt. All the regular brands have additional oil and sugar, and the hippie brands contain peanuts only, no salt.