How can reduced-fat peanut butter have the same calories as regular peanut butter?
Peanut butter is one of the foods, as are some cookies, where products with lower fat content may contain more sugar and other sources of calories to maintain flavor and texture. In many other foods, such as milk and cheese, cutting fat does reduce calorie content. If you are cutting fat as a weight-control measure, make sure that you look at total calorie content of foods you compare. Weight control is really about the balance between how many calories you consume and how many calories you burn. For overall good health, the most important sources of fat to limit are those high in saturated or trans fat. Because peanut butter contains a “healthy” fat, limiting that source of fat is not nearly as beneficial as looking for lower fat cheese, ice cream, meat, and other sources of saturated fat and only eating small portions of them. Q: Is turbinado sugar more nutritious than white sugar? A: Turbinado sugar (sometimes called “raw sugar”) is not as completely refined as white table sugar, so
