George Washington Carver who lived in the late 1800’s was a brilliant man who invented over 300 different uses for peanuts, but he did not invent peanut butter. Unfortunately, this is the achievement with which most people associate him. His inventions made a large impact on our world today. He not only came up with many uses for peanuts (including as shampoo, glue, and laxatives), but he also created with multiple uses for soybeans, sweet potatoes and pecans. Carver did not court fame and fortune, and he even turned down a job working for Thomas Edison, one that would have paid him six figures. Another thing, he didn’t patent his inventions for the most part, saying they should be available to all people. So, Who Did come up with peanut butter? Many different individuals are credited with helping to invent the peanut butter we know. A Canadian , Marcellus Gilmore Edson from Montreal who, in 1884, patented something called peanut paste, it was used as an ointment. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented a process that allowed him to make another kind of peanut blend in 1895, which he hoped to market to people who didn’t have teeth. And there was chemist Joseph Rosefield who created a way to make smooth peanut butter much like the spread we have today. However, if you really want to go back to the beginning, there is evidence that the Aztecs took roasted beans inside a shell and mashed them to create a crunchy blend. It could be considered the original peanut butter…Peanuts aren’t actually a true nut; they’re a legume (in the same family as peas, beans and lentils). But the proteins in peanuts are similar in structure to those in tree nuts.. Ed
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