Who invented peanut butter?

Question

I am doing a report on George Washington Carver and I know he invented many uses for peanuts, but I am unsure if he invented peanut butter. Does anyone know for sure if he did?

Answer 1

Peanut butter was invented and reinvented many times during history. Peanuts were known as early as 950 B.C. and originated in South America. The ancient Incas used peanuts and were known to have made it into a paste-like substance. As a crop peanuts emigrated from South America to Africa by early explorers and then traveled by trade into Spain who then traded the product to the American colonies. The first commercial peanut crop was grown in Virginia in the early to mid 1840's and in North Carolina beginning around 1818.

According to the Corn Products Company, Dr. Ambrose Straub of St. Louis patented a peanut butter-making machine in 1903 and some unknown doctor invented peanut butter in 1890.

Answer 2

• The History of Peanut Butter
George Washington Carver started popularizing uses for peanut products including peanut butter, paper, ink, and oils beginning in 1880.
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Around the end of the seventeenth century, Haitians made peanut butter by using a heavy wood mortar and a wood pestle with a metal cap. The mortar—featuring a metal bottom and weighing about 20 pounds—and the 5-pound pestle were used to pound the peanuts into a paste. During the nineteenth century in the United States, shelled, roasted peanuts were chopped or pounded into a creamy paste in a cloth bag and eaten fresh. American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver experimented with soybeans, sweet potatoes, and other crops, eventually deriving 300 products from the peanut alone—among the most notable was peanut butter.
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About peanut butter...
Peanut butter is very important in our American culture today. Peanuts are a major food source, and because of his discoveries, George Washington Carver invented something that we will always cherish and remember. Before he invented the 300 uses for peanut butter, peanuts had to be discovered. His inventions of the many different crops gave people different kinds of food and created new markets for farmers.

Answer 3

There are many claims about the origin of peanut butter. Africans ground peanuts into stews as early as the 15th century. The Chinese have crushed peanuts into creamy sauces for centuries. Civil War soldiers dined on 'peanut porridge.' These uses, however, bore little resemblance to peanut butter as it is known today.

In 1890, an unknown St. Louis physician supposedly encouraged the owner of a food products company, George A. Bayle Jr., to process and package ground peanut paste as a nutritious protein substitute for people with poor teeth who couldn't chew meat. The physician apparently had experimented by grinding peanuts in his hand-cranked meat grinder. Bayle mechanized the process and began selling peanut butter out of barrels for about 6¢ per pound.

Answer 4

Edward Halsey...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter

Answer 5

info of modern-day peanut butter comes from US patent #306727 issued to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, in 1884, for a attitude of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces till the peanuts reached "a fluid or semi-fluid state." because of the fact the product cooled, it set into what Edson defined as "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment." J.H. Kellogg, of cereal repute, secured US patent #580787 in 1897 for his "attitude of preparing Nutmeal," which produced a "pasty adhesive substance" that Kellogg called "nut-butter." xx

Answer 6

A doctor in St. Louis over a hundred years ago

Answer 7

You should really watch that episode of "American Dad"

Answer 8

here is the answer hope its what you need

Answer 9

peter pan.LOL
good luck ,but I'm not sure .