First Seasonal Pumpkin Goes Nuts: Best Invention Since Sliced Bread

October 1, 2018

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(Gerry Furth-Sides) We were hooked on Honey Roasted Peanut Butter at the first spoonful. So this pumpkin product is our favorite among the fanatical rush to use this fall, seasonal culinary darling. Blending Pumpkin Spice and Pumpkin Flakes brings out a remarkable Pumpkin Pie flavor. It is holiday-worthy whether spread on bread, crisp, straight on a spoon or oatmeal. For recipes and more information, please see the website at bnutty.com/steel-cut-oatmeal.

Fresh, gourmet peanut butter comes in 10 different blended varieties. Peanut butter is already a wonderful protein source without carbohydrates, high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, fillers or coloring. All varieties are gluten-free. Yes, there are sugars because the peanuts are honey roasted, and there are corn flour and cornstarch.

bNUTTY’s gourmet Peanut butter with pretzels & white chocolate is holiday perfect

The PBJ plays an important part in American agricultural history. Legendary, influential innovator, George Washington Carver, helped develop peanut butter as part of his major achievement of developing crop-rotation. After earning his master’s degree at Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State University) in 1897, Carver was brought into Tuskegee Institute as director of agriculture, where he developed a nitrate-enriched legume and cotton crop rotation system. There, Carver found 325 uses for the excess crop material after rotation — such as peanut oil — which contributed to developments of the delicious sandwich spread, peanut butter.

For more details on George Washington Carver’s life, please see his bio at www.invent.org/honor/inductees/inductee-detail/?IID=30 .

Peanut butter was originally paired with savories, such as celery or toasted crackers until 1896 when Good Housekeeping Magazine suggested home-ground peanut butter spread on bread. At the turn of the century when the price of peanut butter dropped and became even more popular in the 1920s when sugar was added and it appealed more to children. By World War II, both peanut butter and jelly were found on US soldiers’ military ration list.

A peanut butter and jelly, white bread sandwich contains 403 calories. While roughly 50% of the calories are from fat, most of them come from heart-healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.

Julia Davis Chandler first referenced the now beloved peanut butter and jelly sandwich in 1901 using white bread, and the invention of sliced bread in the 1920s helped evolve the elite sandwich into an everyday staple.

These days there are heavenly, lower calorie alternatives, such as a Norwegian crisp that can be spread with bNUTTY pumpkin peanut butter and St. Dalfours apricot spread, sweetened with grape juice instead of sugar. Better yet, we prefer our peanut butter Greek-style and pure– right on a beautiful large spoon.

This was even before we learned about the fascinating story behind the company. As the founder tells the story, the enterprise originated with a parent-teacher relationship chaperoning a student sailing adventure that quickly developed into a friendship for life with altruism at the core, leading to the group making handmade peanut butter in different flavors to the delight of friend, family and co-workers. It found a niche with their children and for school fundraising that lead to an entire company branch. bNUTTY sells 8 ounce jars to organizations at a discounted price and allow each group the freedom to choose their own retail price.

She added, “This is addicting!” made us determined to develop new flavors. And the new ones are cutting edge and terrific.