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Nutrition
from page A8
If the body maintains itself over
time, those eating habits are proba
bly healthy for that person.
However, those habits won’t be
identical for everyone. That’s anoth
er message the ADA would like to
get across during its campaign.
Food choices are personal, and peo
ple should use the food guide pyramid
as an outline to choose healthful foods
they enjoy.
Likewise, a healthy weight for one
person might not be healthy for some
one else. Weight is not necessarily an
indicator of health.
Being healthy is a lifestyle, but not
one that has to include constant calo
rie-counting.
The main thing to keep in mind,
Vaughn said, is that the body needs a
lot of complex carbohydrates, or foods
high in fiber.
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Sliced peanut butter to make debut
by Arnold Hamilton
College Press Exchange
Stillwater, Okla - Move over, Jif. And spread
the news. Choosier moms may soon be choosing...
sliced peanut butter.
Foiget the traditional ritual with the knife and
the jar and the slathering of creamy or crunchy on
a piece of bread.
Food researchers at Oklahoma State University
have taken the wraps off their vision of peanut but
ter’s future, and it looks just like a slice of cheese
wrapped in clear plastic.
Except it’s brown instead of yellow.
Some moms say they aren’t ready for the change.
“It doesn’t sound good to me,” said Jana Rebone, a
Dallas mother of eight. “I probably wouldn’t buy
it. You need to be able to spread peanut butter on a
slice of bread.”
Other mothers just have questions.
“Would it be sticky like peanut butter? Would it
come in different thicknesses?” wondered Emily
Leisner, mother of two young sons in Richardson.
“It’s a novelty. I’d probably buy it at least once.”
Would it come in “crunchy?” Would it be oily
enough to get gum out of hair? Could a toddler smear
it on his chubby cheeks?
The OSU researchers and Oklahoma’s peanut
promoters say consumer demand for a more conve
nient product led them to create the “peel and eat”
slices. They hope to see the new product on grocery
shelves within 18 months.
“We didn’t see this as a radical product,” said
Mike Kubicek, the Oklahoma Peanut Commission’s
executive secretary. “Surveys show that our con
sumer requires a more convenient and quick food
product.
“We saw this as a natural fit.”
The peanut butter slices produced for consumer
tests have the same rubbery consistency as cheese
slices. But once the package is unwrapped, the peanut
butter smell is unmistakable - and strong.
Researchers are restricting taste-tests, but Ku
bicek swears it tastes like it was spread with a
knife. He and other human guinea pigs sampled the
slices during a recent Oklahoma Peanut Commis
sion meeting.
“It was just like ajar of peanut butter,” he said.
“The sensation comes not in the flavor. The sensa
tion comes in how you handle it. I’m holding in
my hand what I used to spread with a knife.”
Peanuts are Oklahoma’s second-laigest crop, be
hind wheat. Nearly 70 percent of the 100,000 tons
of peanuts grown in Oklahoma each year are made
into peanut butter.
Dr. Danielle Bellmer, OSU’s lead researcher,
said negotiations are under way with a company in
terested in producing and marketing the new prod
uct. She declined to identify the firm.
“We have the means to process it,” Bellmer said.
“The equipment is available. It’s just a matter of de
ciding who wants to put their name on it and take
it over.”
This isn’t the first time someone dreamed of
sliced peanut butter.
A patent search revealed a similar effort about
50 years ago, when researchers tried to create peanut
butter blocks that could be sliced like cheese.
Apparently, the time was not right for that idea.
Bellmer and fellow researchers have secured
$9,500 in grants from the peanut commission and
$24,000 from OSU to crunch the numbers and smooth
.the way for their new formula.
OSU’s peanut product team used a Wisconsin
cheese factory to produce samples of the individu
ally wrapped slices.
It’s unclear, Bellmer said, whether the new prod- ,
uct will appear on store shelves alongside peanut but
ter jars or in the refrigerated section with the cheeses.
The issue probably won’t be resolved until a final
formula is devised and researchers determine the
product’s shelf life.
But one thing seems certain: It won’t be long be
fore OSU researchers seek to reunite peanut butter
with its most famous partner, jelly.
“People tell us you can’t sell peanut butter slices
without jelly slices,” Bellmer said. “That’s probably
next. One thing at a time.”
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