Peanut Butter

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Peanut Butter

• By Jeremy wolf

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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

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Who is known as the father of peanut butter?

• Agricultural Chemist Dr. George Washington
  Carver-.-1880 did not patent it.

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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

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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.

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How is peanut butter made.

• peanut butter making

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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.

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Nutritional Facts

• nutritional facts for smooth
• nutritional facts for chunky

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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.

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Peanut Butter on T.V

• Family Guy

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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

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Peanut butter recipes

• Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• peanut butter pancakes
• rise and shine muffins
• peanut butter cookies

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Sources

• http//www.peanutbutterlovers.com/recipes/pb_cooki
  es.html
• http//www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/jif.htm
• http//www2.jsonline.com80/entree/cooking/aug01/s
  helf26082301.asp
• http//inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpea
  nutbutter.htm