Peanut Butter?
Top reasons to keep this troubled food in your diet
By Jackie Dikos, R.D.
As featured in the Web Only issue of Running Times Magazine
Almost 600 people were recently sickened by contaminated peanut butter products, and at least 8 of them died. Wow, what happened to our peanut butter? This latest incident comes just two years after we were warned about Peter Pan and Great Value Brands being contaminated. Salmonella contamination associated with eating our favorite peanut butter foods has been on the mind of many consumers.
An undeniable small sense of relief was what I felt after receiving an email from PowerBar stating that the peanut butter performance bar I ate the day before was safe. Although the warning is for products made with peanut butter and peanut paste such as cookies, cakes, candies, crackers and ice cream, it is easy to hesitate when spreading a slice of toast with the sticky goodness.