How was Peanut Butter invented?
How was Peanut Butter invented?
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While Canadian Marcellus Gilmore Edson created peanut paste, an important precursor to peanut butter, John Harvey Kellogg was responsible for popularizing peanut butter made from raw peanuts in 1885. He created the product as a source of protein for those who couldn’t otherwise chew solid food. Ambrose Straub further contributed to the product’s popularity when he created a peanut-butter-making-machine which increased its viability as a mass market product.

While many people falsely credit George Washington Carver with inventing peanut butter, many of his contributions did, in fact, pave the way for its invention. If not for his discoveries of the many practical applications of peanuts, there may not have been a significant peanut industry in the United States.
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