It looks like peanut butter. It spreads like peanut butter. It even shares some of the ingredients. But it's not peanut butter.

We tried two spreads at the PNE that many people couldn't believe weren't peanut butter when we showed them samples on a cracker.

One spread was called Sunbutter, made of sunflower seeds. It's organic too. It does have 20 grams of fat in two tablespoons.

The second spread was No Nuts Golden Peabutter, made from golden brown peas and other ingredients -- like icing sugar and vegetable oil like many popular peanut butter brands. It's lower in fat and calories and is a Canadian product .

Our testers told us it sticks to the roof of your mouth like peanut butter too.

The President of the BC Society of Allergy and Immunology, Dr. Ross Chang says peanut butter substitutes are a great alternative for those with allergies, or where peanut butter is banned.

"And so for those children who are peanut allergic, then it's a very safe product for them and they can feel included as if they were eating peanut butter," he explained.

When it came to taste, some testers thought the products tasted funky or like peanut butter gone bad.

Other testers were quite complimentary. Noting the products tasted quite similar to peanut butter.

A was the Sunbutter. And B the No Nuts Peabutter

When the votes were counted 36 percent preferred the Sunbutter and 64 percent liked the No Nuts Golden Peabutter.

And some adults think they might even fool the kids

"I think it tastes good. I don't think that kids if you wanted to give it to them, I think they would probably eat that not really knowing that this isn't peanut butter," said one woman.

The products look so much like peanut butter you might have a problem with someone at a school thinking it is peanut butter.

So the best idea is to inform the school, show them the product before sending it off to school or send a copy of the label along in your child's lunch so that they can show their teacher that the product isn't what it looks like.

Peanut bans are quite common, but school boards call it an advisory rather than a ban because they don't want to imply a school is peanut free. They can never guarantee that.

But parents would still call it a ban. We also asked those who took part in our test whether they had experienced a case where peanut butter has been banned, say at a school or a kids' camp.

And 75 % said they had.

With a report by CTV British Columbia's Chris Olsen