It’s not just a tasty spread for putting on sandwiches. It’s also got a lot of great ingredients! It provides protein and is a good source of the vitamins niacin, vitamin E, vitamin B1, vitamin B5 and folate, as well as the minerals magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, potassium, manganese and copper. It also contains fibre which helps you feel full for longer. To produce peanut butter, dry roasted peanuts are ground up and mixed with oil, sugar and salt to create a spreadable mixture. Two sorts of peanut butter are on offer in the shops - creamy and crunchy. Creamy peanut butter is very finely pureed and crunchy peanut butter still contains chunks of the peanuts, meaning that it is ground more roughly during the manufacturing process. Both types can be used in a variety of ways in the kitchen - they elevate both sweet and savoury meals.