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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - June 30, 2021
Israeli kids love peanutty Bamba puffs, but are more likely to have chocolate spread than peanut butter on their sandwiches.
Because peanut butter is such an American classic, Dr. Jason Cohen continued buying American organic peanut butter for his family after immigrating to Israel in 2011 from New Jersey. He’d pack it in his luggage when returning from frequent trips to treat patients at his interventional pain practice in New York.
When Covid halted his travels, Cohen went shopping for an Israeli equivalent.
To his chagrin, he found that Israeli brands mainly use peanuts or peanut powder exported from China.
His inquiries to the Israeli Groundnuts Board revealed that about 70 percent of Israeli-grown peanuts – of exceptionally high quality, by the way — are exported to Europe in the shell.
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