Homemade Peanut Butter - How Many Calories?

Dietitian's Tips for Consuming Homemade Peanut Butter

This homemade spread adds honey, hazelnut oil and salt to roasted peanuts. A 20 g amount provides about 122 calories and 4.04 g protein. Its 100 g value is 610 calories, but the amount spread at breakfast may be quite different.

How many calories are in a spoonful?

A weighed 10 g amount provides about 61 calories; 30 g provides 183. Level and heaped spoons are not equal. Tare the scale with your bread on it, then add the spread to see the grams used.

Is it the same as unsweetened peanut butter?

No. The source recipe combines 200 g roasted peanuts, two tablespoons hazelnut oil, one tablespoon honey and half a teaspoon salt. Added honey means it is not a no-added-sugar butter. A 20 g amount contains about 10.73 g fat, so increasing the portion for more protein increases fat and energy too.

A peanut-only butter or a recipe without added oil needs a different calculation. Consider both peanuts and hazelnut oil when checking allergens.

Gold no-added-sugar spread has a different formula. The 20 g value for this honey recipe should not be assigned to it merely because both contain peanuts. Added hazelnut oil does not supply the fibre and protein of whole hazelnuts.

The Fellas 100% peanut butter example contains only roasted peanuts. Weighing the same 20 g amount does not make it equivalent to this recipe with honey and hazelnut oil.

Source note

Values use the Diyetkolik recipe and 60 g/365.95 kcal entry. Total sugars and saturated fat are unverified and were not borrowed from another peanut butter.