Peanut butter

Peanut butter, also known as peanut butter, peanut butter or peanut paste is a spread, whose main ingredients are ground peanuts.

Description

Together with vegetable oil, salt and sugar form the peanuts a homogeneous spreadable mass. The fat content of peanut butter is by the great peanut and oil content is very high. Peanut butter contains on average 2500 kJ (600 kcal ) per 100 g, and is rich in vitamins E and H.

Peanut butter is used by many manufacturers in the production of confectionery and bakery products. Among other things, there is the spread in cakes, cookies, donuts and candy bars again. Also in the bird food manufacturing peanut butter is to be found: it serves as a binder in so-called food dumplings and seed bars that serve wild birds as a food source.

The "invention" of peanut butter is often George Washington Carver, who discovered 105 new uses for the peanut or John Harvey Kellogg, who was looking for a nutritious food for his patients without teeth and in 1895 he developed peanut flour for a patent attributed. But there is at least one earlier patent by the Canadian Marcellus G. Edson of 1884 on a similar product, and in 1890 to a certain George A. Bayle Jr. nut butters have sold out of barrels.

Already in 1783, in the handwritten dictionary of CL Schumann the word Pinda cheese mentioned ( Pinda = peanut ), the " Pinda - Dokunnu " stands for a surinamesisches court. This dish included peanut mass not in spreadable form, but was rather firmly, for cutting.

In 1872 the word Pindakaas in export statistics from De West Indians, a newspaper of the local Dutch colonies, for spreadable peanut paste was used.

Variants

In trading, the coarse variants ( crunchy ) and fine ( creamy ). Furthermore, there are also several other versions that are not available in the German speaking part. Among very coarse (extra crunchy ) and variants with reduced fat or additives such as honey, caramel and cocoa.

Pureed peanuts without further additions of oil or sugar are called peanut butter. This can, however, contain salt as a flavor carrier.

Dissemination

Popular is peanut butter, especially in North America and parts of Asia, particularly in the Philippines and Indonesia, where it is part of many dishes. In North America, for example, is the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich popular, a sandwich with peanut butter and fruit jelly. Also in the UK, Australia, South Africa and especially in the Netherlands ( " pindakaas " ) the spread of peanuts is very popular.

Legal regulations

The term butter may be used within the European Community by legal regulations alone for dairy products, the same is true for Switzerland. That is why peanut butter is sold mainly by under names such as peanut butter, peanut butter or peanut paste. However, glasses with the words peanut butter or the English Peanutbutter commercially are offered.

In the United States needs to peanut butter under federal law at least 90 % peanut ingredients, and must not contain more than 55 % fat. Salt, sugar or other sweeteners and stabilizers are allowed as additives.