peanut butter

Health & Safety

The Jif peanut butter recall is pulling a cascade of other products from store shelves

3:11pm May 26, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Many other companies use the peanut butter — the cause of a salmonella outbreak — and now they have recalls of their own. The FDA says the products made it to at least 10 other countries.

Skippy Foods, LLC said a "number of jars may contain a small fragment of stainless steel from a piece of manufacturing equipment."

National

Recall issued for thousands of Skippy Peanut Butter cases due to steel fragments

7:45pm March 31, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

The specific jars impacted include Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, Skippy Reduced Fat Chunky Peanut Butter Spread and Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter Blended With Plant Protein.

The Flufferrettes perform at the 12th annual What the Fluff? festival, celebrating 100 years of Marshmallow Fluff.

'What The Fluff?' Celebrates A Century Of Peanut Butter's Marshmallow Friend

7:00am September 30, 2017

by Carolyn Beans

The people of Massachusetts celebrated the centennial in sticky style with a festival — including thousands of Fluffernutter sandwiches — in the neighborhood where Fluff was first whipped up.

On Tuesday, police arrested Brady Kilpatrick, the final inmate from the dozen who escaped from an Alabama jail by tricking a guard with the help of peanut butter.

National

Ala. Peanut Butter Jailbreak Ends With Capture Of Final Inmate

2:28pm August 02, 2017

by Amy Held

Two days after escaping from an Alabama county jail using the insides of a sandwich, the 12th inmate was caught in Florida.

Peanuts and straight peanut butter are a choking hazard for infants, doctors say, but a bit of watered-down puree of peanut butter, starting at around 6-months-old, can help prevent peanut allergies.

Hey, Baby, Meet Peanuts: How And When To Safely Introduce The Food

4:37pm November 11, 2016

by Patti Neighmond

Giving infants peanut puree as one of their first solid foods can help prevent peanut allergies, research has shown. To do that safely, start early — and only after checking with your doctor.

A second big study affirms new thinking: Exposing high-risk kids to peanuts beginning in infancy greatly reduces the chance of developing a peanut allergy. And this peanut tolerance holds up as kids get older.

National

Peanut Mush In Infancy Cuts Allergy Risk. New Study Adds To Evidence

8:03pm March 04, 2016

by Allison Aubrey

A second big study affirms new thinking: Exposing high-risk kids to peanuts beginning in infancy reduces the chance of developing a peanut allergy. This peanut tolerance holds up as kids get older.

Queue Listen Now

National

Former Peanut Corp. Exec Gets 28 Years For Role In Deadly Salmonella Outbreak

7:52am September 22, 2015

by Laura Wagner

The former owner of Peanut Corporation of America, Stewart Parnell, had been convicted of knowingly shipping tainted peanut butter that was linked to the 2009 deaths of nine people.

Feeding Babies Foods With Peanuts Appears To Prevent Allergies

2:28pm February 26, 2015

by Rob Stein

Babies who ate the equivalent of about 4 heaping teaspoons of peanut butter weekly were about 80 percent less likely to develop a peanut allergy by their fifth birthday. So finds a landmark new study.

Queue Listen Now

More convenient than a PB&J, unless you're eating them on an incline.

Arts

Sandwich Monday: PB&J Balls

3:59pm October 06, 2014

by Ian Chillag

For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try a new take on a brown-bag lunch classic. Welch's has re-engineered the PB&J in ball form.

Farmworkers like these in California picking produce may soon be required by the FDA to take more precautions against spreading foodborne illness.

FDA Releases Rules To Strengthen Safety Of Food Supply

3:10pm April 07, 2014

Two years after a food safety bill became law, the FDA issues a rule to prevent foodborne illness in produce and one to require food manufacturers to have plans in place to prevent contamination.

Queue Listen Now