Americans love to eat peanut butter. But what is peanut butter? It is a thick, creamy paste. You buy it in a jar at the grocery store. Manufacturers roast peanuts and take off the skin. Then they grind them into a thick paste--that's peanut butter!
The peanut is not really a nut, but a pea. It is a strange pea because it grows underground. But peanut plants also have green vines with yellow flowers. These vines or stems grow above the ground and are quite long. Peanuts are very healthy for you. They have more protein than a steak and they have many vitamins, too.
The peanut comes from South America, but peanut butter is a food that is truly "American." Peanut butter started in 1890 in St. Louis. A doctor made some peanut butter. He gave it to patients who could not eat regular food. Later, peanut butter was popular as a healthy food.
Peanut butter is very popular with children in the United States. Perhaps their favorite way to eat it is in a sandwich. Many children add jelly to their peanut butter sandwiches. This makes a favorite snack or lunchtime meal.
1. Where can you buy peanut butter?
At the grocery store
At the pharmacy
At the gift shop
2. Where do the peas for peanut butter grow?
On the tree
On the bush
Under the ground
3. How do the peanuts affect our health?
They are very dangerous.
They are poisonous.
They are very healthy.
4. Where do peanuts come from?
From South Africa
From South Europe
From South America
5. Who made the peanut butter for the first time?
A doctor
A farmer
A child
6. In what way do children like to it peanut butter?
With their hands
With a sandwich
With a juice
7. What is the synonym for the word ‘snack’ (paragraph 4)?