Who was the inventor of peanut butter?

Answer 1

George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. He may have improved upon the formula, but peanut butter has been around for many years. See the Related links below for more information.
The Aztecs are the earliest people that mashed peanuts into a paste.
Peanuts are native to the tropics of the Americas, and were mashed to become a pasty substance by the Aztec Native Americans hundreds of years ago.

A number of peanut paste products have been used over the centuries, and the distinction between peanut paste and peanut butter is not always clearcut in ordinary use.

Evidence of peanut butter as it is known today comes from U.S. Patent 306,727, issued in 1884 to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the finished product of the process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts entered "a fluid or semi-fluid state." As the peanut product cooled, it set into what Edson explained as being "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment." Edson's patent is based on the preparation of a peanut paste as an intermediate to the production of peanut candies. While Edson's patent does not describe the modern confection we know as peanut butter, it does show the initial steps necessary for the production of peanut butter.

J.H. Kellogg, of breakfast cereal fame, secured U.S. Patent 580,787 in 1897 for his "Process of Preparing Nutmeal," which produced a "pasty adhesive substance" that Kellogg called "nut-butter."

Dr. Ambrose Straub, a physician in St. Louis, Missouri pursued a method for providing toothless elderly with protein in the 1890s. His peanut-butter-making machine was patented in 1903.

A popular myth is that George Washington Carver (1864-1943) invented peanut butter. While he is credited with inventing over 300 uses for peanuts, peanut butter was not one of them, as it had already been invented before he commenced research on the legumes around 1915. Nonetheless, this myth is still taught in many American school systems.
Why most people would say that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter and while he indeed made many ways to use the peanut and improved on peanut butter by roasting the nuts, he did not invent peanut butter. John H Kellogg who was a medical Doctor in Battle Creek , Michigan who ran a sanatorium using holistic medicine methods and with a particular focus on nutrition ,enema and exercise is the inventor of what we call peanut butter. And yes he also invented cornflakes.

Answer 2

George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter, Abe lincolns wife did and they dropped it off and kinda ding dong ditched him and that's when Abe was shot write when he was writing the name of peanut butter he got shot so they took it to his house and dropped it off

Answer 3

The REAL Answer is George Washington Carve He is The REAL inventor of peanut butter!

No George Washington Carver is the name that comes to mind wen we think of the inventor of peanut butter. But really it as an unknown physician. George Washington Carver invented 300 uses for peanut butter but 200 of his uses were deemed illegitimate. The nameless doctor lived in st. Louis and invented peanut butter in the year 1890. He inventd it as an easily chewed source of protein for the vegetarians and elderly because that could not consume meat.

Answer 4

George Washington Carver is credited with making the invention, peanut butter.

Answer 5

No one really. It was actually invented by George Washington Carver.

Answer 6

George Washington Carver

Answer 7

George Washington Carver did it in 1890.

Answer 8

Marcellus Gilmore Edson