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.

Peanut Butter on T.V

• Family Guy

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