Food Safety Focus | Peanut History

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Food Safety Focus

Hello All Team Members!

I hope this message finds all of you safe and full of joy, this Day.

Without further ado, Happy National Peanut Day! Yes, that’s right, all day today you can celebrate with your friends and family, one of the most important legumes in history. So, let’s learn a little about them, shall we?

For starters a peanut is not really a nut at all. They’re actually a legume, which are edible seeds inside a pod and fall in the same family as peas and beans. Unlike other legumes, which grow on a vine or a shrub, the peanut finds comfort growing beneath the soil, away from view.

The history of the peanut goes back many thousands of years to Peru and Brazil in South America. Fossil records might not exist, but we have found pottery decorated with peanuts that dated back to 3500 years ago. As far back as 1500 BC, the Incans of Peru used peanuts in sacrificial offerings and they put them in tombs with their mummies as food in the afterlife.

Then along came one of the most prominent American scientists of the early 20th century, George Washington Carver. Born in the 1860s, George Washington Carver developed hundreds of uses for the peanut and is widely considered the father of the peanut industry. He developed everything from peanut based chili sauce to peanut based shampoo, shaving cream and even glue. Over 300 different uses for the peanut, but not peanut butter as many may think.

In 1884 a peanut paste was patented by Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Canada but it wasn’t until 1895 that peanut butter was invented by a name you may recognize, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the creator of Kellogg’s cereal.

This all paved the way for one of the best inventions in history – the peanut butter and jelly sandwich! In 1901 the first peanut butter and jelly recipe was released in the Boston Cooking School Magazine, written by Julia Davis Chandler. She used crab apple jelly with peanut butter and called the combination “delicious” and as far as she knew the combination was original.

I hope you enjoyed this message, my friends and that you find some time to pay a little homage today with your favorite peanut recipe. As always, thank you for all you do to provide safe food for our families each and every Day!

Justin Straka – Food Safety Manager

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