Peanut butter packs nutritive punch Food

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We love peanut butter. We slather it on sandwiches with jelly. We allegation it on celery and crackers. We suffer it true from the jar.

Americans on normal eat 3 pounds of peanut butter per year. This year, expenditure is approaching to reach a jot down 800 million pounds.

In these difficult mercantile times, it is no wonder. Peanut butter is a discount protein. At 8 grams of protein per ounce, peanut butter edges out canned tuna, weak duck breasts and belligerent beef, that all have about 7 grams per ounce. But peanut butter costs a lot less, on normal 10 cents an ounce, compared with 18, sixteen and sixteen cents, respectively.

The bulb spreads recognition doesnt warn Beverly Howard, senior manager executive of Loaves and Fishes, a Charlotte nonprofit organisation that feeds the hungry. This nonperishable protein has prolonged been a most-wanted object for food banks all over the country. "We discharge it as fast we pick up it," Howard says. Since July, the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina has distributed 200,000 pounds of peanut butter to food pantries in 34 counties.

Howard adds: "The majority pleasing thing about peanut butter is young kids will eat it if you widespread it on cardboard."

Peanut butter mostly goes on bread with jelly, but we shouldnt extent this cupboard staple.

"Peanut butter is used in delicious cooking, globally," says Bruce Weinstein, co-author of "The Ultimate Peanut Butter Book: Savory & Sweet, Breakfast to Dinner, Hundreds of Ways to Use Americas Favorite Spread."

Weinstein says peanut butter is found in in progress from Africa to Southeast Asia. His book, created with Mark Scarbrough, contains recipes for curries and stir fries, soups and noodle meals utilizing the seasoning as a key ingredient.

"It has so most flavors and so most character," Weinstein says. "It creates even a elementary noodle plate ambience so complex."

Best of all, it gets a protein-rich cooking on the list on the cheap.

andrea.weigl or 919-829-4848

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