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Here are today’s five things to know about peanut butter:

60% of people like creamy peanut butter over crunchy.

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Women & children prefer creamy, while most men like crunchy.

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Peanut butter is a source of incomplete protein.

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A common combination to provide a complete protein is pairing peanut butter with whole wheat bread.

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The two foods need only be consumed within 24 hours of each other to complete the protein.

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Today’s Food History

  • 1920 Eskimo Pie Patent Date. The Eskimo Pie was patented by Christian K. Nelson, first sold in 1922 as “I-Scream Bars”
  • 1935 The first beer can was introduced by the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company
  • 1939 Maximilian Bircher-Benner died. He was a Swiss doctor who developed the granola-like cereal product ‘Muesli’
  • 1959 Coors launched the 7 ounce seamless, recyclable aluminum beer can.
  • 1988 RIP Charles Glen King,a biochemist who discovered vitamin C in 1932. He first extracted & isolated it from lemon juice.

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