Mercadona has done it again and has launched a new 100% peanut butter. This time it has a peculiarity and that is that it is a crunchy peanut butter, that is, crunchy and full of pieces of peanuts so that in each bite we enjoy much more of how special the peanut butter is.
A 500 gram pot of crunchy peanut butter, that’s how Mercadona wants to conquer its “bosses”. The new cream promises a lot and it is a crunchy variety of the cream that already exists on Mercadona’s shelves. Under the Hacendado brand, this new crunchy peanut butter is in direct competition to other great options such as the famous Capitan Maní.
Mercadona is adapting slowly but well to the new market demands where healthier options are called for with fresher ingredients, with less plastics and with more honest labeling.
Traditional peanut butter is one of Mercadona’s greatest successes, not only because of its price, but because its ingredients include nothing extra, only 100% peanuts . There is no trace of additives, no added sugars, no colorants, no preservatives, no palm oil or any ingredient that will mess up this mix.
Another great success with this dried fruit is Mercadona’s defatted groundnut powder, which contains almost 47% vegetable proteins, naturally present sugars, without additives, or colorants, without salt, etc. We also recommend it if we are lovers of this exquisite and beneficial dried fruit.
Ingredients and nutritional value
As we have already said, it is the crunchy version of Mercadona’s famous peanut butter. Let’s take a look at its ingredients to see if it really is a 100% peanut butter, and unsurprisingly it is. The only ingredient we see are peanuts , there is nothing extra or unnecessary like thickeners, sugars, additives, oils and the like. Only 100% peanuts with a crunchy touch, that is, there are chopped peanuts inside the cream.
Regarding its nutritional table, it is exactly the same as the traditional cream that has been on the Mercadona shelves for some time that are distributed throughout Spain. This crunchy variety may take a while to appear in our nearest Mercadona, unless we live in the Valencian Community.
For every 100 grams of Mercadona peanut butter:
- Calories: 618 Kcal.
- Fat: 50 grams.
- Of which saturated: 6.8 grams.
- Hydrates: 7 grams.
- Of which, sugars: 3.6 grams.
- Dietary fiber: 9.9 grams.
- Proteins: 30 grams.
- Salt: 0.02 grams.
This new peanut butter from Mercadona has absolutely nothing to envy the company that had a monopoly on this type of cream, which was Capitán Maní. This brand has worse ingredients than the new one from Mercadona, being a 500 gram jar for only 3 euros .
We cannot confuse a cocoa and hazelnut spread with peanut butter. They are very different flavors and have very different uses as well. With the peanut we can prepare cheese cake, oatmeal cookies, we can dip fruits, prepare tagliatelle, mix it with yogurts and biscuits, sautéed vegetables with tenderloin and peanut cream sauce, prawns with curried peanut cream, etc.
