Peanut butter is one of my favorite foods! It is versatile, tasty, and it is a good source of protein. Did you know that in 1890, according to the Peanut Butter Lovers website, people with bad teeth were advised to have peanut butter paste? A doctor from Missouri’s largest city, St. Louis, actually came up with this idea. And peanut butter wasn’t expensive either, for just 6 cents, people could get a pound of peanut paste.
Well, today, even though peanut allergies seem to be commonplace, doctors are recommending that parents introduce their babies to peanut butter when they turn four months.
It used to be that children wouldn’t be given any peanuts until they turned three – the hope was to avoid the allergic response. But research now seems to be showing that the delay in introducing peanut butter has the opposite effect.
