Washington / DC. (gov) It’s a time to celebrate one of life’s simple, viscous pleasures – it’s Peanut Butter Lovers Month. The stuff of one of America’s favorite sandwiches, peanut butter was first offered to the public at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. But as we currently know it – with the peanuts roasted and the product churned like butter to be smooth and so the oil won’t separate – peanut butter didn’t appear on grocery shelves until 1922. While we each eat more than 6.5 pounds of peanuts in all forms each year, peanut oil is used in making paints, cosmetics, and lubricants, while the shells are used to make wallboard, abrasives, and fuel. Making peanut butter and roasting nuts is an 11.3 billion USD a year business in the U.S. – according to the U.S. Census Bureau (Image: usp).
OTHER TOPICS FROM THIS SECTION FOR YOU:
- Greenfood: How fermentation gives food a second life
- NGT: European Parliament backs EU Commission proposal
- Urgent Concerns Regarding EU Decision on GMO Deregulation
- FDF: about the latest ONS food inflation figures
- MetaPath research: public and private players join forces
- VTT: Finnish companies work on new processes for plant proteins
- VTT: Finland makes plant-based meat attractive
- UNRIC on the end of the Grains Agreement: «Everything is possible»
- ICBA: Aspartame safe, reaffirm WHO and FAO
- EU: More sustainable use of plant and soil natural resources
- From farm to fork: Fazer participates in fertiliser research
- UK: 80 percent of households saw disposable income fall
- Good Meat: Gets Full Approval in the U.S. for Cultivated Meat
- Food Safety Confidence Outpaces What Guests Really Know
- Promotion tour: Prime Minister tastes 3D-printed cultivated fish
- New partnership between W.U.R. and Protein Industries Canada
- Lantmännen: How to strengthen Sweden’s food security
- USA: Frozen pizza gains significant market share
- Greedflation? What consumers think about the price increases
- Mondelēz: Releases »State of Snacking« Report 2023