FIVE THINGS: About peanut butter
BY EMILIANA SANDOVAL
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
The average American kid will have consumed 1,500 peanut butter sandwiches by the end of high school. Mmmm.
DEBUNKED
George Washington Carver invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, but he did not invent peanut butter.
According to http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/, two men began experimenting with peanut butter in the late 1800s.
One was a St. Louis physician whose name has been lost in the mists of time, and the other was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who fed it to patients at his Battle Creek Sanitarium. He was given the patent for peanut butter in 1895. Brother W.K. Kellogg formed the Sanitas Nut Co. and sold peanut butter to local grocery stores.
Peanuts aren’t nuts — they’re legumes, as are peas and beans.
IN A JIFFY