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How Peanut Butter is REALLY Made! Inside the Peanut Butter Factory

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Warm-up Questions

How often do you eat peanut butter, and what do you usually eat it with?
What steps do you think happen inside a peanut butter factory before the product reaches shops?
Do you prefer creamy or crunchy peanut butter? Why?

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How Peanut Butter is REALLY Made! Inside the Peanut Butter Factory

From popularity to farming and harvesting (00:00 – 03:41)

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1. Why was peanut butter originally created (according to the video)?

To provide a protein-rich food for people who had trouble chewing meat
To replace bread during wartime shortages
To be a sweet dessert spread for children
To make peanut farming more profitable

2. After peanuts are unearthed, what happens for several days?

They are mixed with salt and sugar
They dry in the sun to reduce moisture content
They are immediately roasted at the factory
They are frozen to preserve freshness

3. What is one purpose of drying the peanuts before storage?

To make the shells easier to paint
To increase the sugar level inside the peanut
To prevent fungal growth and extend shelf life
To turn them crunchy

How Peanut Butter is REALLY Made! Inside the Peanut Butter Factory

Factory scale, roasting, cooling, and removing skins (03:41 – 06:38)

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1. About how many jars of peanut butter does the factory produce each year (as stated in the video)?

Nearly 120 million
Nearly 1.2 billion
Nearly 12 million
Nearly 120 billion

2. Why are roasted peanuts quickly cooled with cold air?

To make the peanuts heavier for transport
To add more moisture back into the peanuts
To halt the cooking process instantly and preserve flavor/oil content
To remove the shells more easily

3. What happens to the peanut skins during the refining/blanching process?

They are used as nutritious feed for pigs
They are added back into crunchy peanut butter
They are melted into cooking oil
They are thrown away as unusable waste

How Peanut Butter is REALLY Made! Inside the Peanut Butter Factory

Grinding, ingredients, quality control, filling, sealing, and nutrition notes (06:38 – 09:31)

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1. What is the purpose of adding hydrogenated vegetable oil to the peanut butter mixture?

To make the peanut butter taste spicy
To act as a stabilizer and prevent oil separation in the jar
To increase the protein content
To remove sugar from the mixture

2. At what rate can the dispensers fill jars (up to)?

250 jars per minute
1,100 jars per minute
120 jars per minute
25 jars per minute

3. What helps preserve freshness inside the lid?

A paper sticker
A second plastic lid
A layer of sugar
A foil seal that creates an airtight seal

How Peanut Butter is REALLY Made! Inside the Peanut Butter Factory

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1. Which sequence best matches the overall production process shown in the video?

Harvest → dry/clean → roast/cool → refine/grind/mix → fill/seal
Roast → grind → harvest → package
Clean → package → harvest → roast
Grind → dry → label → harvest

2. Why does the factory use multiple machines and steps (roaster, blancher, grinder, filling line)?

To increase the amount of water in the product
To make the process slower so workers can rest
To avoid using any quality tests
To ensure consistent flavor/texture and remove unwanted parts/impurities

3. What does the video suggest about peanut butter’s nutrition?

Most of its fat is unsaturated, but some ‘bad fat’ can come from added hydrogenated oil
It contains cholesterol and almost no fat
It is mostly sugar and contains no protein
It has no vitamins or minerals

Discussion Questions

Discuss the ideas from this video

How Peanut Butter is REALLY Made! Inside the Peanut Butter Factory

Which step in the process surprised you most (harvesting, drying, roasting, refining, mixing, or packaging)? Why?
The video mentions using skins and bitter cores as animal feed. What other food-production byproducts do you know that get reused?
Do you think adding hydrogenated oil is worth it to prevent separation, or would you prefer ‘natural’ peanut butter that separates? Explain.
How could a factory reduce waste or energy use during roasting, cooling, and packaging?