Not a celebration devoted to peanut butter itself, but to the many who love it.
Peanut butter itself is a paste that is made from dry roasted peanuts. This paste is common in many countries around the world. Although peanut butter is primarily used as a sandwich spread, especially in the American favourite of peanut butter and jelly (the latter being jam in other countries), it is also used as an ingredient in many different recipes, both sweet and savoury, including many different cookies and candies.
John Harvey Kellogg, who is probably most well known for his corn flakes, patented one of the earliest forms of peanut butter, in which the peanuts were boiled rather than roasted, on 1898, but the first peanut butter recipe was actually patented by a Canadian in 1884.
The botanist and inventor, George Washington Carver, is often, mistakenly, credited as having invented peanut butter at the beginning of the twentieth century, but recipes had existed for years before that (with one Aztec recipe dating back to the 15th century). The reason for this mistake is that Carver was responsible for patenting many different ways of preparing peanuts, as well as growing them, and disseminating recipes for using them
Peanut butter is today commonly available in two main varieties, smooth and crunchy. The difference between the two types is pretty obvious - one is crunchy, the other isn't. Peanut butter is an excellent source of many different nutrients, although it is also a source of fats, both saturated and unsaturated.
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