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  • From: "mtlivestock" <crublee AT libby.org>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Fw: Sunflower-Butter Spreads
  • Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:37:19 -0600

Since there has been a great deal of discussion of sunflowers on the list, I
felt someone would be interested in this article. SunButter, yuummm?


----- Original Message -----
From: "ARS News Service" <NewsService AT ars.usda.gov>
To: "ARS News subscriber" <crublee AT libby.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:14 PM
Subject: Sunflower-Butter Spreads


STORY LEAD:
Sunflower Seed "Butter" Improves as It Spreads Across America

[Note: You're receiving this story a day late, because of a problem with our
subscriber list. We expect to have the problem fully resolved within a
couple of days. Our apologies for the inconvenience. --ARS News Service.]
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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Erin Peabody, (301) 504-1624, ekpeabody AT ars.usda.gov
May 17, 2005
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For a long time, the only way to get at a sunflower seed's nutty, chewy
kernel was to painstakingly crack or pry open the seed to pluck out its
precious bit of meat.

But now, thanks to a specially processed sunflower butter that Agricultural
Research Service food technologists helped develop five years ago, more and
more consumers, including those allergic to peanuts, are able to spread
sunflower seeds onto breads, crackers, apples and any other food base once
reserved for pairing with peanut butter.

The spread was developed through a cooperative research and development
agreement between ARS and Red River Commodities, a sunflower seed processor
in Fargo, N.D. Known as SunButter, the sunflower seed product now comes in
creamy, natural, natural crunch, honey crunch--and even a low-carb version.

The availability of a peanut-free spread is great news for the roughly 3
million American adults and children who suffer from peanut allergies.

Because of concerns about students with peanut allergies, 12 states now
include SunButter in their school lunch programs, according to Red River
Commodities. And some airlines now provide SunButter, or snacks made with
SunButter, to their passengers as an alternative to peanuts.

Isabel Lima and Harmeet Guraya, food technologists at ARS' Southern Regional
Research Center in New Orleans, La., developed the ideal processing
conditions that ultimately led to the recipe for a natural, good-tasting
sunflower butter that was more palatable than previous sunflower seed
spreads.

They have helped Red River Commodities find the optimal sunflower spread
formulation with just the right amounts of sugar, salt and stabilizer.
According to Lima, even though these ingredients are added in only small
amounts, too much or too little of any of the three can impair the butter's
taste and quality.

Lima and Guraya's research on finding the ideal sunflower butter formulation
will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Food Science.

ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research
agency.
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