Peanut oil production by country12/24/2023 Knowing that peanut oil is removed from powdered peanut butter, we tried reconstituting the powder using peanut oil instead of water. While 2 tablespoons of Skippy have 190 calories and 16 grams of fat, 2 tablespoons of powdered peanut butter have about 45 calories and 1.5 grams of fat. These comments made sense when we compared nutrition labels. The sandwiches, according to tasters, seemed like they were made with diet peanut butter. In the milkshakes, the peanut flavor was less pronounced, and the texture was decidedly chalky. Tasters were easily able to pick out the powdered varieties. We matched these against our winning creamy peanut butter, Skippy, plain, in peanut butter cookies, in milkshakes, and in peanut butter sandwiches. We ordered four brands of powdered peanut butter and followed their package directions to reconstitute them with water. These included the iodine number, saponification number, free acidity, smoking point and the resistance of the oils to rancidity changes.Powdered peanut butter is a byproduct of peanut oil production: Roasted peanuts are pressed to extract the peanut oil, and the leftover, defatted peanut bits are dried and ground into a powder, which can be reconstituted if desired. Since the oils for this experiment could not be produced under experimental conditions, certain constants were measured in order to know about the qualities of the oils. These changes were measured by the smoking point, free acidity, and rancidity changes of the oils. The changes in the two oils during repeated fryings was compared. The absorption of the oil by the products fried in peanut oil was compared with those fried in cottonseed oil. The primary purpose of this experiment was to study the palatability of potato chips, shoestring potatoes and French friend potatoes when fried in peanut oil as compared with those friend in cottonseed oil. Since peanut production has been greatly increased for edible oil, and since so little research has been done on the culinary properties of the oil, a study of these properties seemed advisable. Peanut oil can replace, in part at least, the approximate 10,000,000 pounds of coconut oil that until now has been imported into the country for roasting peanuts, making soap and other uses. Peanut oil is mixed with nearly all the olive oil that comes from the United States. It is so excellent in quality that most people cannot detect the difference. Peanut oil is used in the United States mainly as an adulterant of or as a substitute for olive oil. From each ton of peanuts approximately 600 pounds of oil can be obtained. In 1940 only one fourth of the crop of 200,000 tons of peanuts was used for oil. The goal for 1942 is 3,400,000 acres for peanut oil and 1,600,000 acres for edible use. Today the Secretary of Agriculture has called upon the peanut farmers of the nation to greatly expand their peanut acreage for the production of oil during the coming year. It is stated in the Peanut Journal and Nut World (21) that peanut oil imports from foreign countries in the first six months of the 1940-1941 season decreased about 17 percent from the total reached during the same period of the previous years. The “cake” or meal which is left after the oil has been expressed makes an excellent feed for cattle and is used as such to a great extent, particularly in Germany.ĭuring the first World War there was a great demand for peanut oil and today the need is felt again. However, 40 percent of the crop was used for oil in 1940. Until a few years ago less than 8 percent of the crop was crushed for oil. Much of their oil was formerly imported into the United States for here the peanut as a source of oil was not realized. The Dutch buy peanuts from many countries and bring them to Rotterdam, where they crush the, into oil and meal, and barter these products to other countries. The peanut is perhaps the most important oil-bearing seed that is grown and its value as a source of oil has long been recognized. It has been stated that when peanuts were placed in the hold of an old ship with the slaves, the slaves were in excellent physical condition on arrival for there was no beriberi. From South America they were carried to Arica and then to the United States with the slaves who came from Africa. It is thought that the peanut (Arachis hypogaea) originated in South America as peanuts have been found in the ancient burial graves in Peru.
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