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Thread ID: 81771 2007-08-06 21:15:00 I've just gone off Peanut butter Digby (677) PC World Chat
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577215 2007-08-06 22:35:00 Yeah, well that's the thing - where do the peanuts come from? I don't really want any that are grown in China either. If Bin Inn don't know then they are going to have to find out. FoxyMX (5)
577216 2007-08-06 22:45:00 Didn't we do this one to death the other day (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz)? :rolleyes:

My Sanitarium peanut butter jar says "Made in Australia" but it doesn't say whether the peanuts were made there. The next jar I check that has the words "China" on the label will be going straight back on the shelf.

Incidentally, we have control over our choices at the supermarket but it becomes more difficult when eating out. We don't know where the heck the restaurant's food is sourced from unless we specifically ask.

If you look closer you will see on the label Australian Health Association and NZ health Association and the addresses but right at the bottom of the label it says
Made In China.

Not that it matters, you are just as likely to get something bad from eating at NZ restaurants from poor food handling hygiene. 		Safari (3993)
577217 2007-08-06 22:48:00 Well, I have gone back to making my own bread again as a tiny protest against the gumberment enforcing medication on the whole population by legislating for the compulsory addition of folic acid to bread - an unnecessary requirement for most of the population, and added in doses that will not be medically significant for the target population unless they eat 11 slices of bread per day...

So if I have to make my own peanut butter, I guess I will. What can be wrong with peanuts that would not be removed by processing into pnut butter? Is it pesticide residue that is the problem in using pnuts from some countries? If so, which countries? I doubt that Amerika is squeaky clean as far as pesticide residue is concerned... 		John H (8)
577218 2007-08-06 23:23:00 From the Listeners' Joanne Black this week- There is a NZ brand called Kiaora. Costs more :)

I don't know where the peanuts come from.

Anyways, if it's safety standards and contamination you're worried about, I'd say NZ-manufactured would be safer regardless of where the 'raw' nuts came from (which is probably China (72.32.142.180) Less chance to screw around with nuts in their jackets than industrial p-butter manufacture.

Or is there :illogical How are they grown? what sort of pesticides do they use? 		mmmork (6822)
577219 2007-08-07 02:13:00 The Chinese seem to take food standards very seriously. They executed the head of their authority for taking bribes. How many countries would do that? Graham L (2)
577220 2007-08-07 02:15:00 ........(Peanute)... How are they grown? what sort of pesticides do they use?

Instead of worrying about pesticides, I'd be a bit more concerned about the traditional Chinese fertilizers they have used for millenia :), though I do think it makes much more ecological sense than flushing it all down the toilet as we do in the West:thumbs: 		Terry Porritt (14)
577221 2007-08-07 02:24:00 Indeed, the Chinese have been using traditional fertilisers for millenia . There are a lot of Chinese people, so the food produced can't be too unhealthy .

I like mushrooms, even though I know what they are grown in . ;) 		Graham L (2)
577222 2007-08-07 02:27:00 Peanut Butter is fairly well tested

for Australian Peanut Butter

Australia: manufacturer’s declaration where manufacturers must declare that the product is of Australian origin. These products will not be subject to any further testing. (Products entering New Zealand from Australia that are not of Australian origin and are not covered by other certification detailed above, require sampling and testing in New Zealand according to the sampling protocol below.)

taken from the NZFSA (www.nzfsa.govt.nz) website,

Also if you live up north you could always grow your own (www.fndc.govt.nz)

I remember my parents growing Peanuts when i was tiny (4 or 5) when we lived in Kawerau in the BOP 		Morgenmuffel (187)
577223 2007-08-07 02:30:00 Instead of worrying about pesticides, I'd be a bit more concerned about the traditional Chinese fertilizers they have used for millenia :), though I do think it makes much more ecological sense than flushing it all down the toilet as we do in the West:thumbs:

The best tomatoes I have ever eaten where the ones that sprung up in the free "soil" the sewage works in Hamilton gave away once it had been processed 		Morgenmuffel (187)
577224 2007-08-07 02:34:00 hmmmmmm I wonder if I could get beef satay on the parliamentary menu, using only the finest British Beef and Chinese peanuts of course Morgenmuffel (187)
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