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Virginia, northeastern North Carolina, and to some extent, in Georgia. Virginia has another first in the fact that the first factory for cleaning, grading and polishing peanuts for roasting in the shell, reportedly was built about 1880 in the neighborhood of Smithfield, Virginia. Today, Suffolk is known as the world's largest peanut processing center. One of the fastest growing peanut procfucts has been peanut butter. More than half the peanuts shelled for the edible trade in the United States are used in the production of this tasty food. The inventor of pea nut butter is another of history's lost discoverers, All that is known is that the South A merican India ns—long before the discovery of America had whipped up a tasty paste that is similar to today’s product.
It wasn’t until 1890 that peanut butter was first made com mercially. It was produced by a physician in St. Louis, Missouri, as a food for invalids. Much of the desire for peanuts was credited to the extensive use of peanuts and peanut butter by U. S. military forces during World War II. And in the years since the war, a whole new generation has been introduced to peanut butter through the National School Lunch program. This yeai- 319,502 pounds of peanut butter will be distributed through recipient agencies under the CommodityDis tribution program of the Virginia Department of Agriculture. This USD A donated food will not only go to some 510,000 school children, but another 52,944 pounds will go to some 9,000 welfare families in the state. Today in all forms, Americans consume about five pounds of peanuts per person per year. Peanuts are good and good for you. They are extremely high in protein and also contain high amounts of niacin and the B vitamins. Its fat content makes it a high energy food also. Virginia plays a leading part in the production of peanuts. Southeastern Virginia is the aldest commercial peanut pro iucing area in the United States. Southampton county is :he largest peanut producing county in the country, Virginia leads all peanut-produc ng states in average yield per
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