National Peanut Day! Five Food Finds about Peanuts: • It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. • There are enough peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches. • By law, any product labeled "peanut butter" in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts. • Peanut butter was first introduced to the USA in 1904 at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis by C.H. Sumner, who sold $705.11 of the "new treat" at his concession stand. • In 1884, Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec was the first person to patent peanut butter. undefined
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:16:26 +0000
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