Peanut butter is a food paste, that many people love to eat, despite the fact it’s a “guilty pleasure” due to its number of calories.
Let’s find out more about the peanut butter!
- Peanut butter is a food paste or spread made from ground, dry-roasted peanuts.
- It commonly contains additional ingredients that modify the taste or texture, such as salt, sweeteners, or emulsifiers.
- Peanut butter is consumed in many countries. T
- he United States is a leading exporter of peanut butter.
- Also, the U.S.A. is one of the largest consumers of peanut butter annually per capita.
- Peanut butter is a nutrient-rich food.
- It contains protein, several vitamins, and dietary minerals in high content. It is typically served as a spread on bread, toast, or crackers, and used to make sandwiches.
- Some of the two most popular peanut butter sandwiches are the peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
- It is also used in a number of breakfast dishes and desserts, such as peanut-flavored granola, smoothies, crepes, cookies, brownies, or croissants.
- It is similar to other nut butters such as cashew butter and almond butter.
- t takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
- By law, any product labeled “peanut butter” in the United States must be at least 90% peanuts.
- It takes fewer than 5 gallons of water to produce 1 ounce of peanuts.
- The average peanut farm is 200 acres.
- The average person will eat almost 3,000 PB&Js in their lifetime, according to a 2016 survey by Peter Pan Simply Ground Peanut Butter.
- The average adult eats a PB&J three times a month.
- The Huffington Post (Sept. 2014) asked, “What makes the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Results show: 36% say strawberry jam is favorite (grape is 31%); favorite bread is white bread (54%); favorite type of peanut butter is smooth (56%) and a whopping 80% like their PB & J with the crust left on the sandwich. Discover why the PB&J is the best sandwich ever.
- Two peanut farmers have been elected president of the USA – Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson and Georgia’s Jimmy Carter.
- Astronaut Alan Shepard brought a peanut with him to the moon.
- Former President Bill Clinton says one of his favorite sandwiches is peanut butter and banana. He also reported to have been the favorite of Elvis “the King” Presley.
- According to Little Brownie Bakers, cookie bakers use about 230,000 pounds of peanut butter per week to bake Girl Scout’s Do-si-dos and Tagalongs.
- Women and children prefer creamy peanut butter, while most men opt for chunky.
- People living on the East Coast prefer creamy peanut butter, while those on the West Coast prefer the crunchy style.
- Boiled peanuts are considered a delicacy in the peanut growing areas of the South. Freshly harvested peanuts are boiled in a brine until they are of a soft bean-like texture.
- Goober—a nickname for peanuts—comes from “nguba”, the Congo language name for peanut.
- Peanuts are sometimes called “ground nuts” or “ground peas” because peanuts grow underground.
- The nub between two peanut halves is an embryo.
- George Washington Carver was known as the “plant doctor” and the “grandfather of peanuts”. Though he did not invent peanut butter, he discovered many ways to use peanuts and innovative farming methods, including crop diversification and soil conservation.
- Peanut butter was originally made for people with no teeth.
- The average European eats less than 1 tbsp of peanut butter a year.
- The furthest thrown a peanut has ever been thrown was 124.4 feet.
- There are four different types of peanuts – Runner, Valencia, Spanish and Virgnia.
- Every year Americans eat enough peanut butter to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon.
- In a high-pressure environment, peanut butter can be turned into diamonds.
- The use of peanuts dates to the Aztecs and Incas.
- Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, obtained a patent for a method of producing peanut butter from roasted peanuts using heated surfaces in 1884.
- A businessman from St. Louis named George Bayle produced and sold peanut butter in the form of a snack food in 1894
- Early peanut-butter-making machines were developed by Joseph Lambert, who had worked at John Harvey Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitarium, and Dr. Ambrose Straub who obtained a patent for a peanut-butter-making machine in 1903
- There is a US Peanut Board!
- There’s a jar of peanut butter in 75% of the homes in America.
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