How Much Peanut Butter Is In Your Favorite Reese's Products?: A Scientific Review

     A couple months back (yeah I'm lazy) I was having a discussion at the bar about how much peanut butter is in various Reese's products.  Naturally after I was done drinking I went over to QuikCheck and bought one of each kind so I could cut them up and do some science.

(Did I do this memeing right?)

     The plan was simple enough.  Cut up each peanut butter cup and scoop out the peanut butter.  I have a scale that measures to 1/10th of an ounce which I used to weigh the candy before and the peanut butter after.  In retrospect I probably should have weighed the chocolate as well, but I don't get paid for this so I don't really care.

     A couple notes before we get into the meat chocolate of the review: These numbers aren't necessarily 100% accurate.  Some of the chocolate melted and stuck to my fingers while I was cutting everything up.  It was also tough to get all the peanut butter off the chocolate.

1) Reese's Peanut Butter Cup

Started off with the most popular product.  .3oz/ .7oz = 43% peanut butter.

2) Reese's Big Cup

In a bit of shocker, the big cup has the same percentage peanut butter as the regular sized cup.  .6oz/ 1.4oz = 43% peanut butter.

3) Reese's Minis

I guess there's a minimum amount of chocolate cup needed to support the peanut butter?  That explains the lower peanut butter.  .5oz/ 2.5oz = 20% peanut butter.

(Side note, this was the biggest pain in the ass of the whole experiment)

4) Reese's Miniatures

Here's a nice bonus- they don't count the foil when weighing the product.  Or the foil weighs less than .1oz.  Either way, 1.7oz./ 5.3oz = 32% peanut butter.

Bonus 5) Reese's Peanut Butter Egg

This was the only one I weighed the chocolate for, for reasons I don't remember.  I'm going to attribute the chocolate loss to the scale rounding and some of it melting onto my fingers.  .6oz/ 1.2oz = 50% peanut butter, making it the best option if you're a peanut butter fan.

Final results:

Egg: 50%

Regular Cup and Big Cup: 43%

Miniatures: 32%

Minis: 20%

So there you have it.  Based on your chocolate and peanut butter preferences you have a plethora of options.  And by plethora I mean four.

PS- This was far and away the most annoying blog I've worked on and I plan on never doing something like this again.  I think cutting up those Miniatures gave me carpal tunnel.