Hot Topics: Do You Know What’s the Difference Between Peanut Butter and Jam?

Peanut Butter and Jam are different things. Peanut Butter is a food paste made primarily from ground roasted peanuts, with or without added oil.

At the same time Jam contains both Fruite Juice and pieces of the fruit’s (or vegetable’s) flesh,however some cookbooks define Jam as cooked and gelled fruit (or vegetable) purees.

Peanut butter is popular throughout the world and is also manufactured in some emerging markets. Its primary use is as a sandwich spread.

While, properly, the term jam refers to a product made with whole fruit, cut into pieces or crushed. The fruit is heated with water and sugar to activate the pectin in the fruit.

This sandwich comes with a layer of peanut butter or jam on bread. It comes commonly between two slices, but sometimes eaten open-faced.