Skippy Natural Peanut Butter. While the texture may be lighter and creamer with no need to stir, Skippy's natural peanut butter offering is a bit suspect in terms of being truly natural. Its ingredients consist of roasted peanuts, palm oil, sugar, and salt. Again, palm oil is recognized as a vegetable oil high in saturated fats; thus healthy peanut oil is being replaced with unhealthy palm oil to prevent natural oil separation. Furthermore, one must question whether refined sugar is really necessary to include in the product since peanut butter is most often paired with sugary companions (e.g., peanut butter and jelly sandwiches).

Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter. If you read the ingredients on the nutritional label, Smucker's Natural peanut butter is made with only two ingredients: peanuts and salt. This makes Smucker's Natural the winner of our natural peanut butter taste test. Yes, you have to stir separated oil before you use it the first time. But after that, it's a simple light stir (if any) and you're good to go. All healthy Omega 3 fatty acids from monounsaturated peanut oil are preserved, and there's no exchange for potentially unhealthy oils.

Natural peanut butters (i.e., those containing only peanuts and salt) area generally a bit heavier and pastier in texture than their counterparts. But once you try it, you'll appreciate the all-natural peanut flavor and its numerous health benefits.