Which has More Protein: Peanut Butter or Bread?

Reading Nutrition Labels

💙 Confused about reading nutrition labels?

🦅 How to tell if you're eating protein, fat, or carbs (hint: you're probably wrong)

💙 How can peanut butter keep you from reaching your goals?

Nutrition Labels can be Tricky

• Compare creamy versus crunchy peanut butter. And then, we compare the nutritional value to the nutritional value of bread.

How to Know If You Are Eating Protein: The Calculation

• Divide the number of calories in your food by the number of grams of protein.

• Peanut Butter = 180 calories / 7 g of protein

  • Protein Ratio = 26

  • For 26 calories, you gain 1 g of protein

• Egg Whites = 25 calories / 5 g protein

  • Egg White’s Protein Ratio = 5

• Chicken = 180 calories / 30 g protein

  • Chicken’s Protein Ratio = 6

• Bread = 80 calories / 3 g protein

  • Bread’s Protein Ratio = 27

Peanut Butter has as much protein as bread!