Wegmans Creamy Peanut Butter — DUMP

Munch or Dump rates Wegmans Creamy Peanut Butter by Wegmans DUMP — score 20/90.

This is a Jif-style peanut butter: peanuts, then added sugar, fully hydrogenated oils, and molasses. The hydrogenated oil is there to stop the natural oil from separating, and it's an automatic dump for us. You don't need engineered fat in something that should just be ground peanuts. Wegmans' own 'Just Peanuts' line on the same shelf is the better buy.

Why this verdict

• Contains fully hydrogenated vegetable oils, an automatic DUMP for a peanut butter
• Added sugar plus molasses stacks two sweeteners into a spread that needs neither
• The hydrogenated oil exists to fix texture and prevent oil separation, not to nourish you
• A cleaner one-ingredient alternative exists on the same shelf: Wegmans 'Just Peanuts'

Ingredients (5)

• roasted peanuts (safe) — The whole-food base; good protein and healthy fats on its own.
• Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar in the seasoning.
• Fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (avoid) — Engineered stabilizer added purely to stop oil separation; its presence triggers an automatic DUMP for the product.
• Salt (safe) — Standard seasoning in small amounts.
• molasses (moderate) — Additional sweetener in the graham layer.