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Black History Month is the enemy of the truth.
The answer your teacher wants is almost certainly "George Washington Carver."
The truth (assuming you care; nobody else seems to, during BHM) is that Carver did not invent or develop peanut butter. He did popularize it, to some extent, along with sweet potatoes and a few other crops to induce southern farmers to switch to some crop other than cotton (the southern farming economy was entirely too dependent on cotton for its own good).
Also, Carver was not a shining example of a modern scientist. He invented, or claimed to have invented, a lot of stuff, but outside of about three patents he didn't really leave formulas or processes and his laboratory notes were practically nonexistent.
It's pretty sad that Carver's legacy gets trotted out every February, because if you bother to actually look into it, the overall impression it leaves is "if this guy is the best example of a black inventor in history, maybe they really areinferior." Which is not at all true, but teachers need to stop making overblown claims about Carver (and a few others) and focus on their possibly less interesting, but certainly more true, actual accomplishments. Carver, for example, really did convince quite a few people to switch to alternative crops (partly by publishing recipes using those crops; he didn't "invent" the recipes, but he did collect and distribute them), and that turned out to be important in keeping the entire agricultural economy of the south from tanking due to the boll weevil. If you're not growing cotton in the first place, then the boll weevil doesn't have much of an impact on your own crop, and it even helped cotton farmers by slowing the spread of the weevils (if the next field over is also cotton, it's a lot easier for the weevils to spread than if the next field over is something they can't eat).
What else can I help you with?
Does peanut butter come from animals?
No. Peanut butter comes from the peanut plant. It contains no animal products.
Does peanut butter grow on a plant?
NO!Of course not. Peanut butter is made in a factory. But peanuts grow on a plant, in order to make peanut butter!
Which part of the plant is made for peanut butter?
Peanut butter is made by simply grinding up 'peanuts'. Peanuts are the fruit (a pea) of the peanut plant which occur in a pod on the end of a long shoot which pushes itself underground for the peanut to develop (hence groundnut which is another name for a peanut).
Why was peanut butter needed?
Peanut butter, and many other peanut products, was originally created to encourage farmers to grow peanut plants as part of their crop rotation, since the peanut plant adds certain nutrients back into the soil.
What plant did George Washington carver find many uses for?
Carver developed methods for making many useful substances out of peanuts, such as cosmetics, paints, and nitroglycerin. He didn't really "invent" the substances so much as show that they could be economically made from peanut plants.
Does peanut butter have Salmonella now?
Some does, but only if it came from a specific processing plant, which generally made products for the restaurant and hospitality industries.
What plants are in peanut butter?
Peanut butter is made from ground peanuts, which come from the peanut plant. Sometimes honey or other nuts (for a blended product) can also be added in.
Where do they make peanut butter?
fro a special just on t.v peanut butter is made in a plant in Georgia USA then shipped all over it takes 770 peanuts to make a 16oz jar of peanut butter
How do you know Bob the Peanut Plant and Bob the Squishy Balloon?
Cuase Bob is the Bobness of the plant which the peanut butter lies under the squishy balloon of Bobert
Does China make King Nut Peanut Butter?
No. King Nut contracts with Peanut Corporation of America (Lynchburg, VA) to make their peanut butter. The plant is actually located in Blakely, Georgia. See Related Links.
Why isn't peanut butter a meat?
because it comes from a nut..... so it grows... from a plant
What day and year was the peanut invented?
The peanut was not invented, it is a plant. It was discovered April 15, 1804, in the backyard of George Washington Carver. He also invented peanut butter.
