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Building peanut consumption: “Value-Added Products and Processes for Enhanced Utilization of Peanuts”
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Manjeet S. Chinnan, Kay McWatters and Anna Resurreccion |
| | | University of Georgia
| The UGA Food Science Department is aiming to increase U.S. peanut consumption with new gadgets and new ways of eating peanuts. Efforts to produce a peanut butter and jelly sandwich maker resulted in a device useful for research but impractical for home use; a second prototype worked better and could be practical in the food service industry. Peanut butter-filled pastries may be on the way to the nation’s breakfast tables. Early-stage taste testing of peanut butter tarts with clover honey, confectioner’s sugar or grape or strawberry jam will increase the products’ chances of success, developers say. Finally, cracker-coated peanuts could add to the more than 300 million pounds of peanut snacks U.S. consumers already eat. A hundred households tried out the new peanut snacks, with caramel- or cheese-flavored coatings and liked the color, crunch and flavor of both, but preferred the caramel version.
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