National Peanut Day September 13th

Here’s 10 fun facts about peanuts and peanut butter that you may not know:

1. It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.

2. By law, any product labeled “peanut butter” in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts.

3. Four of the top 10 candy bars manufactured in the USA contain peanuts or peanut butter.

4. The average peanut farm is 100 acres.

5. Peanuts are the #1 snack nut consumed in the U.S., accounting for two-thirds of the snack nut market.

6. Two peanut farmers have been elected president of the USA – Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter.

7. There are six cities in the U.S. named Peanut: Peanut, California; Lower Peanut, Pennsylvania; Upper Peanut, Pennsylvania; Peanut, Pennsylvania, Peanut, Tennessee; and Peanut West Virginia.

8. According to Little Brownie Bakers, cookie bakers use about 230,000 pounds of peanut butter per week to bake Do-si-dos and Tagalongs. Click here for a peanut butter cookie recipe.

9. The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school. Click here for kid’s recipes.

10. Peanut butter is consumed in 94 percent of USA households.