National Peanut Board

  • A new report presented at the 15th Annual Worlds of Healthy Flavors (WOHF) event shows how peanuts can be an important component of a healthy diet. Walter Willett, a Harvard professor of nutrition and epidemiology, demonstrated through the EAT-Lancet Report that peanuts can be an important component of a healthy diet. Willett’s presentation was sponsored by the…

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  • The National Peanut Board has launched an engaging, informative new website that tout all the ways peanuts are valuable to our environment, health and communities. The Peanut Vision: Sustainable, Nutritious, Global Food Source  sums up the power of peanuts in one statement: “Peanuts are positioned to meet the challenges of a growing world.” While 85%…

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  • Nut-milk processor Elmhurst debuted the new Milked Peanuts beverage at the American Peanut Council’s Winter Conference, giving attendees their first taste of two new varieties at a luncheon sponsored by the National Peanut Board.  “The launch of the Elmhurst brand of Peanut Milk products truly opens up a new product category for our industry,” said…

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  • A new peanut milk product was introduced at a food show in Baltimore, Maryland this week and will be on store shelves early next year, according to the National Peanut Board. Elmhurst Milked Peanuts – Chocolate made its debut at the Natural Products Expo East, and a second peanut milk variety, Milked Peanuts, is on…

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  • The National Peanut Board has compiled onto one webpage several interesting and attractive graphics the organization commissioned to explain how sustainable groundnuts can be. The graphics – which you can access here – stress how peanuts consume relatively little water, improve soil quality and can produce a crop even in irregular weather because of the…

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  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow peanuts to be called “healthy,” the National Peanut Board announced. This week, FDA started the public process to redefine what foods can claim on their label to have healthy nutrient content. In the interim, FDA has issued guidelines that allows industry to refer to peanuts as healthy,…

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