Sugar in Peanut Butter? Really?

Yesterday we went to visit Pic's Really Good Peanut Butter  factory with our local home school group. I admit, I was looking forward to this as much as the boys were.  I really love Pic's peanut butter, it truly is 'really good'.

The boys in the factory after the tour and taste test, 

surrounded by packaged Really Good Peanut Butter.

I learnt a lot from the tour. The most amusing was that these folks started roasting their peanuts in a brand new hand concrete mixer.  Now they roast 2 tonnes of peanuts per day, so clearly have more appropriate facilities. What was recent news to me was that Pic started making his own peanut butter because the peanut butter we buy on our super market shelves had sugar in.

Sugar in peanut butter?  Really?  We have two different peanut butters, Pic's, which the bigger people in the family like and another supermarket brand, which the smaller people in the family like.  I read the ingredients with shock.  Sugar was listed.  Sugar in peanut butter!  Why?

Why must we need sugar in everything?  I blame the fall.

Craig our tour guide told us we could make peanut butter at home. Why not try it too.

Take some raw peanuts, roast them in your oven, then put them in a blender with a pinch of salt, and blend for a few minutes until the peanut dust becomes a ball of peanut butter.