{"id":2576,"date":"2019-05-21T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2019-05-21T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:26:01","slug":"peanut-milk-product-discontinued-after-just-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/2019\/05\/peanut-milk-product-discontinued-after-just-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut milk product discontinued after just 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2019\/05\/milked-peanuts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2577\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2019\/05\/milked-peanuts-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2019\/05\/milked-peanuts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2019\/05\/milked-peanuts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2019\/05\/milked-peanuts-138x138.jpg 138w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2019\/05\/milked-peanuts.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Elmhurst has discontinued its line of peanut drinks just two years after launching the products. The change includes Milked Peanuts-Chocolate, Chocolate Peanut Protein and Vanilla Protein Shakes. The company stopped making the original Milked Peanuts drink at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made this tough decision based on manufacturing difficulties involving peanuts,\u201d Elmhurst said in a statement to its customers. \u201cBy removing this ingredient from our portfolio, we will create more capacity\u2014both in research and production\u2014for the exploration of new, innovative products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers and alternates at the National Peanut Board, our farm families and staff are disappointed, but we still believe a peanut milk product would be welcomed by consumers who enjoy alternative milks,\u201d said Bob Parker, president and CEO of the National Peanut Board. \u201cWe are confident that a peanut milk product with an equivalent nutrition profile to dairy milk; with the same amounts of protein, calcium, Vitamin D and other fortification, at a price point competitive with existing alternative nut milks would be a success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peanut and nutrition advocates were excited when Elmhurst, a former dairy milk producer in New York, launched the product in 2017. While other nut milks may contain water and fillers, Milked Peanuts contained just five ingredients, mostly healthy peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>The NPB plans to contact other makers of alternative milks to draw attention to the potential for peanut milk products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elmhurst has discontinued its line of peanut drinks just two years after launching the products. The change includes Milked Peanuts-Chocolate, Chocolate Peanut Protein and Vanilla Protein Shakes. The company stopped making the original Milked Peanuts drink at the end of last year. \u201cWe made this tough decision based on manufacturing difficulties involving peanuts,\u201d Elmhurst said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}