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Mind-Blowing Facts And Stories About Peanut Butter

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By Albert Lakey AND Debra Kelly/Updated: Jan. 22, 2018 4:11 pm EDT

With an estimated 90 percent of American homes containing peanut butter, you'd think the sticky, nutty stuff would have precious few secrets left, but you'd be wrong. Here are a few things you probably didn't know about peanut butter.

The modern version got its start with Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium

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Quick, what's the strangest backstory you can think of for the development of modern peanut butter? How about asylums? Yes, it wasn't until Dr. John Kellogg decided that it was going to have an important place in his sanitarium's menu that it was established as a popular, legitimate food in the modern world, though.

Sanitariums were a big deal in the mid-19th century — they were places to go if you could afford to head off to a country home for rest, relaxation, and kooky health treatments. Kellogg's Battle Creek, Michigan sanitarium, which he joined in 1875, was a bit different, with ideas rooted in Seventh Day Adventist beliefs, a vegetarian diet, and plenty of God-fearing. But Kellogg wasn't just an Adventist — he was also a doctor and a surgeon. By the time he set up shop, he was working on creating a head-to-toe-to-soul treatment for his patients, and that included changing their diet.

In 1899, he founded the Sanitas Nut Food Company, which sold "Sanitas" nut butter, possibly the most poorly thought-out name in the history of naming things. It was designed for patients who had trouble chewing solid foods, giving them all the nutritional benefits of legumes in an easy-to-eat form. He started making nut butter for patients and one-time patients (who, if they wanted to continue eating nut butter, could place an order through the mail). It was one of a whole slew of products that was eventually available from the Kellogg's company though, thankfully, the more common name became peanut butter (presumably because of the snickering).

A lunch regular

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It's impossible to talk about peanut butter and not mention jelly, because it's in partnership with that fruity goop that peanut butter is most famously remembered. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have been an American lunch favorite since World War II, and nowhere more so than in the lunch bags of school children. In fact, despite how there's no such thing as an average person (only special snowflakes, according to every motivational speaker ever), a mathematically average person would consume 3000 PB&J's in their lifetime. Then consider that some people won't even touch the stuff (because we're talking real life, not averages), and you realize some people are probably inflicting peanut butter breath on their poor buddies seven days a week.

Greater than the sum of its parts

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If you ever had dreams of smashing your computer, throwing your phone under a bus, and trading your soulless modern life for a small farm where you can breathe, live simply, and just grow everything you need to survive, then you better not want to eat peanut butter. Because, assuming you won't have any dedicated peanut farming equipment since you'e so anti-technology all of a sudden, you'll have to pick 540 peanuts by hand to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. If you do have the patience for that, however, just a single acre of peanuts would be enough to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches, enough to meet the needs of twenty average school age children for a year.

Not just for eating

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Peanut butter might be good on sandwiches, in chocolate, in cookies, probably on turkey, or simply spooned straight from the jar, but it also has unexpected non-culinary uses. If you ever find yourself struggling to remove the sticky residue from a label, then peanut butter might just be the solution you didn't know you had! After removing as much of the label as you can, spread peanut butter over the rest and let it sit—about ten minutes later, the residue should easily rub away. Rumors suggest the nutty putty should also help when removing gum from hair, but it's probably best to steer clear of that idea. Whether it does or doesn't, it will definitely leave your hair oily and nutty-smelling, and you'll only get away with that if you work on a baseball concession stand.

If peanut butter was a country...

If 90 percent of homes, and 1500 sandwiches a year, aren't amazing enough numbers for you, then here is one that might ... $850 million. That's how much Americans spend each year on peanut butter. That's not just a lot of money—that's more money than the gross domestic product of several small countries! Just think about that—Americans alone spend more money on peanut butter than some entire countries have to spend on everything ... including peanut butter.

The most "normal" jar of peanut butter in the world costs $761

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If we told you that there's a jar of peanut butter out there that costs $761, you'd probably first say, "That's a staggeringly precise number," and then, "Holy crap, what's it made from, Martian peanuts?" We'd tell you that of course it's staggeringly precise because it was priced by a department of the US government. Also, nope, no space peanut butter here. In fact, it's the most boring peanut butter you could possibly imagine.

This jar of peanut butter is one of the Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST. NIST is responsible for some pretty important stuff in the science world, and it's basically the establishment of standards that allow scientists to make sure they're conducting the same experiments on the same sorts of things, no matter where they are. Their stuff includes a whole variety of products that are so boringly similar, they can be used for things like calibrating sensitive equipment or providing a baseline for results.

The department stocks hundreds of products from crude oil and whale blubber, so ... why peanut butter? One of the uses for the samples is that they can be broken down into their most basic compounds, and that data is fed into various types of computers and lab equipment. That, in turn, gives researchers a standard to compare their own work and products to, and peanut butter happens to be one of the standards for fatty foods. Since the NIST sample is a standard, that makes it one of the most uniformly, across-the-board, bland-and-boring types of peanut butter out there, and we can't help but wonder if anyone has ever made a sandwich out of it by mistake.

Just one (humongous) peanut butter cup

Would you rather have a million peanut butter cups, or just one really big one? Because that's actually an option now, thanks to Nick Monte, owner of the Village Chocolate Shoppe in Bennington, Vermont. In 2013, he made it his mission to create the world's largest peanut butter cup, and he succeeded when he cooked up a 60-inch wide, 230-pound magnificent monster of a confection. While the idea of a peanut butter cup that weighs the same as a full-grown man might have been the dream of a lot of small children, the reality is more likely just the dream of the local dentist. Fortunately, before local children could spend several days consuming the gigantic record breaker, it was sold off in bits to raise money for an anti-violence charity—or at least, the violence that wasn't already prevented by the enormous quantities of food coma-inducing chocolate everyone was eating afterwards.

Not your mother's PB & J recipe

Unfortunately for Monte, when it comes to world records using peanut butter, someone actually has him beat. In 2010, at the Great American Peanut Butter festival in Grand Saline, Texas, the world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich was made. Containing almost 500 pounds of peanut butter, over 700 pounds of bread, and not a small dollop of jelly, this epic lunchbox filler ended up weighing 1342 pounds, which would require an equally world-record-size baggie to store it in. However, the whole attempt was done less out of unrivaled love for PB&Js, and more out of rivalry with Oklahoma, since the previous record-setting sandwich was made there, and weighed 950 pounds. Texans like to claim that everything is bigger in Texas, and now, at least in the world of PB&Js, they're not kidding.

Most of Europe just doesn't get it

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America is a wonderful place for several reasons, peanut butter being many of them. Cross the Atlantic, though, and you'll find tracking down even the smallest jar of peanut butter can be a massive challenge. That's because most European countries just don't think of peanut butter as being anything, much less something you'd actually want to eat (possibly because it was once called "nut butter").

As a whole, the US consumes more than a billion pounds of the stuff every year, and that's not entirely surprising. Look at Europe, though, and you're looking at an average of a single tablespoon per year. We think we see the problem here. If that's all you're eating, then clearly, you're crap at making a real PB&J sandwich.

It's not like we haven't tried to sway the Old World, either. We're constantly running ads and trying to sell them on the wonders of peanut butter, but they're just not biting. In 2012, US peanut farmers had a bumper crop that left them with extra peanuts, mainly because Europe had no interest in hopping on the peanut butter bandwagon, and that's a shame, despite how all those extra nuts meant cheaper peanut butter for the Americans.

Nowadays, you can usually find a small jar in most European grocery stores (though you might pay an arm and a leg), and it's definitely not the same smooth, creamy goodness that people in the States enjoy. Example: in the Netherlands, it's called pindakaas, or "peanut cheese," which might explain why it hasn't really taken off there. They barely even look at it as food there: one man spread it on the floor and called it art. Specifically, he called it "Peanut-Butter Platform" and it's ... well ... a platform covered with peanut butter. Why? Who the hell knows.

It might end world hunger and malnutrition

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While Europe's turning their collective noses up at America's nut butter, Africa is having a different sort of reaction to it. There, a nutrient-enhanced type of peanut butter called Plumpy'Nut might just change the world, and that's something we never thought we'd be able to say about peanut butter.

As of 2013, around 20 million children worldwide were considered malnourished, and that malnourishment led to the deaths of around a million of them. Getting nutrients to people who live in the most remote corners of the world isn't easy, so it's super-fortumate that Plumpy'Nut checks a lot of boxes. It has a long shelf-life, doesn't need cooking or refrigeration, and it doesn't have to be taken with water. It can be produced in quantities large enough to make a real difference, and just a small amount contains massive quantities of calories and nutrients like calcium, protein and vitamin E.

The peanut paste concoction is the brainchild of a French physician, and in only a handful of years, it's gone from feeding a relatively small number of children during times of famine, to being cranked out en masse from factories across Africa, put right into the hands (and moth) of hundreds of thousands of children.

It might save an entire species of ferret, too

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What's better than a PB&J sandwich? We nominate knowing that black-footed ferrets have dodged the extinction bullet at least twice already, and now have a new fighter in their corner: peanut butter.

In 2016, there were only a few hundred black-footed ferrets left in the wild, where they share their homes with their most common prey: the prairie dog. Unfortunately, prairie dogs are vulnerable to the plague, which then spreads to the ferrets when they eat plague-bearing prairie dogs. Both groups can be wiped out with terrifying speed. There's a vaccine, but have you ever tried to catch a prairie-full of ferrets?

Fortunately, the prairie dogs love peanut butter every bit as much as any other good, red-blooded American. Lacing peanut butter pellets with the vaccine and then delivering them via drone strike (because this is, after all, America) has proven to be a pretty successful method of getting the adorable little creatures to take their life-saving medicine. When researchers dropped off the treats in the morning, they were gone within 20 minutes. They also knew exactly who had gotten the treats, because they were colored with blue dye that stained the faces and paws of the prairie dogs that had gobbled them down. Seriously, can you think of a more adorable plan? We don't think so.

It can help confirm (and maybe diagnose) Alzheimer's

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Alzheimer's is one of the most heartbreaking things a person can go through, and there's still a lot we don't know about it and how to treat it. What we are doing is making advances step by step, and in 2013 a graduate student from the University of Florida made a connection between the decline in a person's ability to smell, and the development of Alzheimer's.

Jennifer Stamps set up a series of tests in which patients and volunteers were asked to close their eyes and block one nostril, then see how close they needed to get to a pile of peanut butter before they could smell it. The outcome? Patients that had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's had trouble smelling anything through their left nostril, and the peanut butter had to be about 10 centimeters closer for them to be able to detect the smell. That reflects a change in the temporal lobe (the first part of the brain to be impacted by the disease), and this simple test might turn into a valuable, low-cost diagnostic tool.

So why peanut butter? One reason is simply that it's cheap, and it's something you can get anywhere. It's also got what's called a "pure olfactory" scent, which means that you only smell peanut butter with your nose. It doesn't make your eyes water, it's not a weird sort of pungent and, when you smell it, there's no question that what you're smelling is peanut butter. That, coupled with how everyone knows what peanut butter smells like, makes it perfect to test for the first signs of cognitive dysfunction, with no invasion and no need for any equipment fancier than a ruler and a bucket of Jif.

Scientists made peanut butter jellyfish, because of course they have

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You can't say scientists don't have a sense of humor and frankly, if we were scientists, we'd make peanut butter jellyfish, too. (It even works with the song. Go on. Try it, you know you want to. We did.) There's actually some legitimate science going on here too, which makes this a double-win.

Marine biologists at the Children's Aquarium at Fair Park of Dallas, Texas, were looking to find out what would happen if they took peanut butter and fed it to a crop of baby moon jellyfish. (Before you say that's cruel, there's a precedent, and the high-protein food is often included in food for marine animals.) They wanted to see if the jellyfish would thrive, and they did. They also turned a sort of peanut-buttery color, which is just plain fun.

Plus, in addition to the obvious party icebreaker that is telling people you spend the day making peanut butter jellyfish, there's a practical reason to do it, too. The typical food of the moon jellyfish (shrimp and fish) isn't entirely sustainable. Replacing that diet with one that's equally nutritious, but infinitely more sustainable, would be a huge bonus, and if it could be done with jellyfish, it might work with other types of marine life, too. Everyone's in favor of a more sustainable world on any level, even if that damn song is going to be stuck in our heads for the rest of the year. It'll probably haunt all our dreams, too.

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Peanut Butter and Jellyfish were the best of friends— best of friends who spent their days exploring up, down, around, and through their grand ocean home. Unluckily for them, though, they lived near Crabby. “You guys swim like humans!” he would taunt as they slipped past. Peanut Butter and Jellyfish did their best to ignore the heckler. “Did you hear something?” asked Jellyfish. “No, must be the current,” said Peanut Butter. Crabby was relentless. “You guys smell like rotten barnacles! Pee-yew!” “My grandma called. She wants her run-walk shoes back!” “I’ve seen sea snails swim with more style.” “What a bunch of bubbleheads!” Jellyfish puffed up his chest and said, “Driftwood and sea stones may break our bones, but words will never hurt us.” “You’re an invertebrate! You don’t even have any bones,” huffed Crabby as he marched along his favorite rock by himself. One day, as Peanut Butter and Jellyfish set out on an excursion to the great reef, they swam past Crabby’s perch. They braced themselves for the usual insults. But all was quiet. Then they heard the faint sound of sobbing up ahead. It was Crabby! He was caught in a lobster trap. And it was being lifted to the surface! “I-I-I’m scared,” he cried. Surely, he was doomed. “Should we help?” asked Jellyfish. The two friends shared a look. “He is in serious trouble,” said Peanut Butter. “You’re right. We have to help!” exclaimed Jellyfish. “But how?” “I have a plan,” said Peanut Butter. “Follow me.” They swam up to the lobster trap. Peanut Butter used his tail to unlock the trap’s gate, but Crabby didn’t budge. “Come on. You’re free!” said Peanut Butter. “But-but . . . I can’t swim,” confessed Crabby. “And I’m afraid of heights.” The lobster trap was getting pulled closer to the surface! “Plan B!” exclaimed Jellyfish. He worked furiously on untying the trap’s knot. “Hurry!” cried Peanut Butter. “I can see the fishermen above!” Just when all hope was lost . . . The knot gave out, sending the trap plummeting! Peanut Butter and Jellyfish grabbed ahold and lowered it to safety. Crabby’s legs wobbled as he returned to his favorite rock. “Th-thanks, you t-two,” he stuttered. “Y-You know, I’m sorry for saying those mean things,” Crabby said. He may have been afraid of heights, but Crabby was brave enough to apologize. “I-I guess I was jealous. You guys seem like you’re always having so much fun explorin’ the open waters.” “Well, there’s plenty to explore close to the ocean floor!” said Jellyfish. Peanut Butter and Jellyfish still swam up, down, around, and through. But it was on the ocean floor that they found their greatest treasure!

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12 interesting facts about peanut butter • VseZnaesh.ru

Peanut butter is one of the most popular products on the market, which is represented by a wide variety of brands, flavors and textures from paste to fudge. Peanut butter is used for a variety of purposes. Some prefer the classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich, while others add it to just about anything, including ice cream, cookies, salads, soups, burgers, and even drinks. It is loved by adults and children, especially in the USA.

Here we look at 12 interesting facts about peanut butter.

1. The first mention of peanut butter

In 1901, the phrase "Peanut butter and jelly" first appeared in writing. It was called peanut butter and was part of a recipe for a simple sandwich that adds a bit of variety, found in the Journal of Culinary Science and Internal Economics at the Boston Culinary School.

2. Two national holidays

There seem to be national holidays dedicated to everything. There are over 1,500 national holidays, many of which are dedicated to a particular dish. Every year January 24th is National Peanut Butter Day. But the lovers of this product went further and created another holiday. Now every year on March 1, National Peanut Butter Day is celebrated. While it may seem ridiculous to honor people who consume peanut butter, the product has several well-known fans, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Seinfeld, and Madonna.

3. The history of peanut butter

Peanuts are not actually nuts. The "nut" that most of us love is actually a bean, as it's the edible seed inside the pod.

The plant originates from South Africa, but thanks to Spanish travelers, peanuts came to Europe through Africa and Asia. In the early 1700s, peanuts made their way to North America with Africans. There is evidence that the South American Incas were the first to prepare peanut butter by grinding beans. However, the oil we know today came from Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.

In the 1890s, Kellogg began making peanut butter to convert his patients to vegetarians by replacing meat with a high-protein product. He and his brother, V.K. Kellogg, even patented a process for making peanut butter. The patent was issued in 1895, and the product was described as "a sticky paste, conveniently called peanut butter." But the Kellogg brothers paid more attention to their grain products.

Another American credited with this invention is a St. Louis doctor who ground peanuts in a meat grinder around the same time. This idea came to him when he was looking for a protein mix for patients with bad teeth who could not chew meat. At the suggestion of a doctor, the owner of a food company began to make the paste. For the first time, peanut butter was officially presented at the exhibition in St. Louis at 1904. It was packaged in barrels and sold for about 6 cents per 500 g.

4. The Peanut Butter Case

The rise in popularity of peanut butter in the 1950s led to many substandard products. To keep costs down, manufacturers have used hydrogenated oils instead of the more expensive peanut butter. And glycerin was used as a sweetener.

The Food and Drug Administration found that some products labeled "peanut butter" contain as little as 75 percent peanuts. At 19A standard of 95% peanuts was proposed in 1959, but manufacturers said consumers preferred a softer product. The consistency controversy turned into the famous 12-year-old "peanut butter case." After much bargaining, the manufacturers persuaded the Authority to reduce the standard to 90%. The companies insisted on 87%, but the Office refused.

The Peanut Hearings began in 1965 after two delays. Well-paid lawyers from major peanut butter producers opposed the underfunded Authority. The battle for a 3 percent difference in peanut content standard spanned 20 weeks and over 8,000 pages of transcript. Thanks to fierce activist Ruth Desmond, the case turned in favor of the Agency. However, another five years elapsed before the US Court of Appeals finally upheld 9The 0 percent standard is still in use today.

5. Study

According to a study conducted from 1996 to 2010, in which more than 9,000 women aged 9-15 took part, the risk of developing benign breast cancer was reduced by 39% if peanut butter was consumed for a period of 3 days a week.

6. Deadly salmonella outbreak

In 2015, Stewart Parnell, former CEO of the Peanut Corporation of America, was sentenced to 28 years in prison. The 61-year-old was charged with 72 counts, including knowingly bringing tainted food across state lines.

The corporation was shut down following one of the largest salmonella outbreaks in US history, caused by peanut butter. The outbreak was registered at the end of 2008, when nine people died and at least 714 fell ill. It was the toughest food-related criminal case. Salmonella contamination also led to the largest number of food recalls, including 3,900 different types of products made from the corporation's raw materials.

According to former employees of the company, the corporation's plant in southwest Georgia did not meet sanitary standards. Federal inspectors found dirt, mold, accumulated grease, cockroaches, rats, bird droppings, and a leaking roof. Animals and water in the production hall posed a great health hazard. In the same form there was another similar object. Michael Parnell, brother of the CEO and food broker, received a 20-year sentence. And the quality control manager got 5 years in prison.

7. Peanut Butter World Records

For many famous world records, the bar is set too high, so many ancillary niches emerge, such as the record for "most sandwiches made in an hour." In September 2016, a group of approximately 1,350 volunteers made 49,100 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in an hour, breaking the previous record of 39,303 sandwiches. Volunteers were represented mainly by students and teachers of Temple University in Philadelphia (Temple University in Philadelphia). Ready-made sandwiches were distributed among more than 15 food banks.

Luckily for the students, Patrick Bertoletti did not participate in their record. This American contestant holds the world record for the most peanut butter and jelly sandwiches eaten in a minute. In 2012, he broke the record by eating 6 sandwiches in a minute. Another record for peanut butter consumption was broken by Andre Ortolf in 2017. This German man ate 378 grams of peanut butter in one minute.

8. Health Benefits of Peanut Butter

Due to the high content of peanuts in peanut butter, eating this product in moderation is good for health. It is a source of manganese that activates enzymes that remove toxic ammonia from the body, protects cells from physiological stress, breaks down nutrients and promotes tissue growth. One tablespoon of peanut butter contains 16% of the recommended daily allowance of manganese for women and 12.5% ​​for men. Peanut butter also contains niacin, which supports metabolism and promotes healthy cell development. Each tablespoon contains 14% of the daily value of niacin for women and 15.5% for men.

Studies also show that peanut butter, peanut butter, and peanuts themselves prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. These foods lower lipids and help reduce inflammation. However, if you eat too much, peanut butter can be harmful. A small portion of this product contains a lot of calories.

The prevalence of peanuts in the US has led to peanut allergy, which is usually quite rare. Allergies to legumes typically affect about 0.6–1.0 percent of people. And in almost 20 percent of cases, a peanut allergy can be outgrown.

9. Peanut butter can be dangerous for dogs

Small doses of peanut butter are good for dogs. But the products of some manufacturers can be dangerous for them. Increasingly, sugar is being replaced with xylitol, and it can be found in over 700 foods. It is relatively harmless to humans, but extremely dangerous to dogs. Xylitol poisons thousands of dogs every year. The sweetener for them is about 22 times more toxic than chocolate. Just 1.37 grams of xylitol for a 14 kg dog will cause disorientation and seizures. In large doses, it leads to the destruction of liver cells.

Xylitol is also used in some mints, ketchup, baked goods, ice cream, peanut butter, and more. "All natural" foods are not always safe for dogs because xylitol is a natural sweetener. The list released by the Food and Drug Administration also states that raw meat, macadamia nuts, grapes, raisins, currants, onions, garlic, apple seeds, fried foods, moldy foods, and large amounts of salty snacks.

10. Astronauts eat peanut butter

The popularity of peanut butter has gone beyond this world. It is eaten even in space. Unlike standard peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, space uses tortillas. Breadcrumbs are rarely a problem on Earth, but in zero gravity they can cause serious harm. Bread stale faster.

In 1985, the scientist Rodolfo Neri Vela proposed tortillas for astronauts. But when at 19In the 1990s, Taco Bell developed tortillas with a longer shelf life, they quickly became a hit with astronauts and are widely used by NASA today.

Shane Kimbrough also demonstrated the difficulty of making such a snack in space. The tortilla is glued while the can is opened, and then the lid is glued with Velcro to keep it from floating away. As Kimbrough said, "If you don't prevent it, everything will float around."

11. Arachibutyrophobia

Arachibutyrophobia is a specific phobia, the fear that peanut butter will stick to your palate. As a rule, a phobia comes from the fear of suffocation. It can also be caused by fear of sticky substances. Arachibutyrophobia can occur on its own.

The severity depends on the person. Some people with arakibutyrophobia may consume small amounts of peanut butter. Others are generally afraid to eat it. In some cases, the fear may also apply to other peanut products, such as peanut sauce and peanut ice cream. Part of the fear may be due to a peanut allergy. Once experienced a bout of food allergies can leave traumatic memories.

Symptoms of arachibutyrophobia include shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, palpitations, dry mouth, trembling, high levels of anxiety, panic, inability to speak clearly, and feelings of fear. In severe cases, medication may be prescribed. It does not cure the phobia, but temporarily suppresses the symptoms. A phobia can be cured through psychotherapy, counseling, Neuro Linguistic Programming, and hypnotherapy.

12. Peanut Butter Diamond

Dan Frost, a scientist at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany, is trying to simulate conditions in the Earth's lower mantle. They involve crushing rock under very high pressure, and occasional small explosions. He said: "If we want to understand how the Earth was formed, then we need to know what it is made of."

His hypothesis suggested that in the past, rock pulled carbon dioxide out of the oceans. The high pressure caused carbon dioxide to escape from the rock as it entered the mantle. The released carbon dioxide was deprived of an oxygen atom, which reacted with iron, and the remaining carbon turned into diamonds under the influence of high pressure. Frost's suspicions were confirmed when he succeeded in turning carbon-rich peanut butter into a diamond by recreating the process using a special press. However, the diamond was destroyed when hydrogen was released, which was bound to the carbon in the oil.

Under pressure, the samples in the furnace were compressed under a pressure of 280,000 atmospheres. As a result, the atoms lined up in dense structures. The second press pressed the new minerals with two real diamonds. Unfortunately, this discovery is unlikely to be useful. Frost noted that it would take weeks to form a 2mm diamond, and real diamonds must also be used for this process. The scientist is more interested in other mysteries of the earth's history.

Fear of allergies - feed the baby peanut butter

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Professor Alan Boobis of Imperial College in London and his colleagues found that the inclusion in the diet peanut butter babies - which was previously considered one of the the most controversial products in baby food - capable of reduce the risk of developing allergic reactions in the future by up to 80%. Baby nutrition experts are rethinking their relation to this product. About the results of the study tells BBC News.

Allergy is considered one of the most common diseases modernity. For example, according to statistics, since 2008 in the USA the number of people affected by this disease has increased by four times. A similar picture is observed today in most Western world, as well as in some regions of Asia and Africa.

Previously, people introduced peanuts into the diet of young children very carefully - as a rule, not earlier than three years, since it was considered allergenic product.

The authors of the new study advise:

give children with allergies or severe diathesis peanut products at the age of 4-6 months under medical supervision

include foods in the diet of children with mild diathesis, containing peanuts from 6 months

children without allergies or diathesis use peanuts at any time time.

“We expect that the widespread implementation of these medical recommendations will prevent the development of peanut allergy in many susceptible children and ultimately reduce the prevalence peanut allergies in the United States,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and infectious diseases (USA).

Michael Walker, Fellow of the European Academy Allergology and Clinical Immunology, tells: “Recommendations are based on reliable medical research, held in the UK. Parents should consult your pediatrician if necessary, before trying to prevent peanut allergy in your child."

In the UK, new guidelines for child nutrition are still are under consideration, but Professor Bubis advises parents follow them now: "The former view, according to which delaying the introduction of allergenic foods reduces the risk of food allergies seems to be incorrect. Anyway, exclusion or untimely introduction of specific allergenic foods can only increase the risk of food allergies, including including peanuts,” he said.

Previously, the portal Scientific Russia already wrote about a similar study in which 11 children “rescued” from allergies by eating peanuts at an early age.

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