Nabisco introduced the Nutter Butter cookie in 1969. The cookies are shaped like peanuts and feature a soft, creamy peanut butter-flavored cream sandwiched between two, crisp peanut butter shells. Nutter butters do not offer a lot of nutrition, so consider them as an occasional treat.
Calories and Macronutrients
Two full-sized Nutter Butters contain 130 calories and 20 g of carbohydrates. The cookies contain 5 g of fat, 1.5 g of which is saturated. Nutter Butters provide 2 g of protein per serving.
Other Varieties
Nutter Butters also come in a chocolate-dipped variety. This version contains 180 calories per two cookie serving. Much of the chocolate coating is made with fully hydrogenated oils, meaning 4.5 g of the 9 g of total fat are saturated. Nutter Butters also come in a bite-sized version, which contain 140 calories and 6 g of fat for a 30 g serving.
Additional Nutritional Information
A serving of Nutter Butters provides 4 percent of the recommended dietary allowance for iron. The cookies offer just 1 g of fiber. Nutter Butters have 110 mg of sodium and no cholesterol per serving. The chocolate-dipped version also provides 2 percent of the RDA for calcium.
Considerations
Although the nutrition label list 0 g of trans fats, the ingredient list includes partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil. The Harvard School of Public Health points out that food manufacturers such as Nabisco are required to list trans fats amounts of .5 g or higher. A food that includes partially hydrogenated oils in the ingredient list is likely to include trace amounts of the man-made fat that both increases bad cholesterol levels and decreases good levels. If you consume more than one serving of Nutter Butters, you may come close to the recommended trans fat limit of 1 percent of daily calories made by the American Heart Association. For a 2,000-calorie diet, this is just 2 g of trans fat per day.
Sugar Concerns
Two Nutter Butters contain 8 g of sugar, about 2 tsp. worth. The chocolate-dipped version contains almost twice as much, 15 g for a two cookie serving. The American Heart Association recommends limiting added sugars, such as those found in cookies, to just 6 tsp. per day for women and 9 tsp. per day for men.
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