Is peanut butter or almond butter higher in protein?
Peanut butter, creamy has 1.2× more protein per 100 g, 24 g against 20.8 g in Almond butter, creamy. That is 48% of the Daily Value against 42%.
Daily Value 50 g. Per 100 g, so the two are directly comparable.
| Per 100 g | Peanut butter, creamy | Almond butter, creamy |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 589 kcal | 603 kcal |
| Protein | 24 g | 20.8 g |
| Total fat | 49.4 g | 53 g |
| Carbohydrate | 22.7 g | 21.2 g |
| Dietary fiber | 6.32 g | 9.72 g |
| Protein | 24 g | 20.8 g |
What this means for you
Peanut butter, by about 15 per cent, and that is not the difference worth noticing.
Look at the sodium instead. The peanut butter in our data carries 221 mg per 100 g and the almond butter essentially none, because one is a salted product and the other is not. That is a choice made in the factory rather than a property of the nut, and it is the number that varies most between jars on the same shelf.
Saturated fat splits them too, about 8.4 g against 4.3 g per 100 g. Both are calorie-dense foods eaten by the tablespoon, so the practical advice is the dull one. Buy the version whose only ingredient is nuts, and let taste decide the rest.
If you are choosing on minerals rather than protein, almond butter carries more magnesium and calcium, and peanut butter is the cheaper source of the two. Neither gap is large enough to organise a shopping list around.
Written from the evidence cards and the data on this page, then checked back against the sources. Bioma Learn has no human medical reviewer at this time and we say so rather than invent one. Information, not medical advice. How we verify.
The comparison is per 100 g of edible portion, so the two foods sit on the same footing. Real portions differ, and so does how much of the nutrient your body actually absorbs from each food. The guide below has the absorption details.
Peanut butter, creamy → · Almond butter, creamy →
Full guide: Protein: who genuinely needs more of it, and what the extra does not do
Data: USDA FoodData Central, FDC IDs 2262072 and 2262074. Checked 2026-09-15.