Regular readers know I’m a devotee of Tracklements, the Wiltshire-based family company, which creates quality food, using simple, honest ingredients, hand-made in small batches. Their food is amazing, and now they have a collaboration with Yumello, who make sustainable nut butters using all-natural ingredients, including from Targanine, a cooperative in the Atlas Mountains which empowers rural Berber women. Not only is this a collaboration of giants, but they’ve merged Tracklement Chilli Jam with Yumello Smooth Peanut Butter – what chance has my waistline?

I hoped beyond hope that it would taste ‘OK’ but not great, so I’d have some possibility of resisting eating far too much of this amazing-sounding delicacy. Sadly there was little chance of this, because of course it is simply heavenly.

I’m guessing the inspiration was from the peanut butter and jelly snack, loved by American children, but wow have they taken it up a notch?

Tracklement Chilli Jam is delicious on its own, made with Raw Cane Sugar, Red Peppers, Cider Vinegar, Onions, Red Chillies (a full 9%), Lemon Juice, Garlic Purée and Sea Salt. The rather special Yumello Smooth Peanut Butter is made with only hi-oleic peanuts and sea salt – that’s it – no palm oil, no refined sugar, no unnecessary additives. Hi-oleic peanuts are naturally sweeter and have around 30% more monounsaturated (healthy) fats than other peanuts. You can imagine, the combination of the sweetness and chilli-bite of the jam with the smooth nuttiness of the peanut butter just sets your tastebuds into freefall. I am still enjoying the memory of that perfect merger of flavours and textures. Thank you Tracklements and Yumello, you’ve made my life complete.

Just £4.99 for a 215g jar, it’s available from the Tracklement and Yumello websites and also fine food delis and farm shops nationwide. You simply must try it, you owe it to yourself.

By Dr K Thompson, award-winning author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows

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