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Taste Kitchen

6 alternatives for the p in pb&j

By Debra Samuels

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 22, 2012

Taste Kitchen: Since peanut butter, long America’s favorite lunchbox spread, has been banned from many schools because of allergies, alternatives have stepped in to fill the void. One candidate for the other half of the jelly sandwich is nut, legume, and seed butters, often toasted first to enhance the flavors, then crushed into a paste. From there, ingredients like oil, sugar, salt, and emulsifiers are added to make them edible and spreadable.

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