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Tuskegee’s George Washington Carver Had Huge Impact On Farming, Food

| February 13, 2019 @ 5:00 am

By Bob Blalock

George Washington Carver became known as “the Peanut Man” for good reason.

Over the course of more than four decades at Tuskegee Institute (now University), Carver found hundreds of uses for the peanut. He developed a host of food products – milk, butter, malted peanuts, chili sauce, peanut brittle, instant coffee, mock oysters, Worcestershire sauce, cooking oil, mock meats, caramel and cocoa. Carver also created laundry soap, laxatives, hand and face lotion, shampoo, shaving cream, wood stains, gasoline and diesel fuel from peanuts, according to Tuskegee University.

Contrary to popular belief, Carver did not invent peanut butter, according to the National Peanut Board. Instead, what we think of as modern peanut butter can be credited to three inventors: Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Canada, who patented a peanut paste in 1894 made from roasted peanuts; Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (the creator of Kellogg’s cereal), who patented a peanut butter in 1895 made from raw peanuts; and Dr. Ambrose Straub of St. Louis, who patented a peanut-butter making machine in 1903.

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