Peanut Butter
By Jeremy wolf
History of Peanut Butter
• Peanuts were known as early as 950b.c
• As a crop peanuts emigrated from South America to Africa by early explorers and then traveled by trade into Spain who then traded the product to the American colonies.
• The first commercial peanut crop was grown in Virginia in the early to mid 1840's
Who is known as the father of peanut butter?
• Agricultural Chemist Dr. George Washington Carver-.-1880 did not patent it.
Who is George Washington Carver?
• Born in 1864 near Diamond Grove Missouri, on the farm of Moses Carver
• Agricultural Chemist• Came up with over
three hundred uses for peanuts
Stories about peanut butter• In 1890, an unknown St. Louis physician supposedly encouraged the owner of a food products company, George A. Bayle Jr., to process and package ground peanut paste as a nutritious protein substitute for people with poor teeth who couldn't chew meat.
How is peanut butter made.
• peanut butter making
Peanut Butter Facts• There are many brands
of peanut butter but the leading three are Jif, Skippy, and Peter pan.
• By law all Peanut but must contain 90% peanuts
• There is 700 million pounds of peanut butter eaten yearly
• 60% of the market creamy, and 40% crunchy.
Nutritional Facts
nutritional facts for smooth
nutritional facts for chunky
Fun Facts about Jif• Americans eat 170 million pounds of Jif in a
year. That's enough to make 2 billion peanut butter sandwiches or to spread a football field with a layer 55 feet thick
• Peanut butter's high protein content draws moisture from your mouth. That's why it sticks to the roof of your mouth.
• It takes about 120 billion peanuts to equal the amount of Jif Peanut Butter produced in one year.
Food Combinations
• Peanut butter eaten on 100% whole wheat bread is considered a complete protein!!!
• A good way to break-the-fast in the morning
Peanut butter recipes
• Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• peanut butter pancakes
• rise and shine muffins
• peanut butter cookies
Sources
• http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/recipes/pb_cookies.html
• http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/jif.htm
• http://www2.jsonline.com:80/entree/cooking/aug01/shelf26082301.asp
• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpeanutbutter.htm