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It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
There are enough peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
Delta Airlines purchased 69.6 million packs of peanuts for its passengers in 2013.
By law, any product labeled "peanut butter" in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts.
The world’s largest peanut butter factory churns out 250,000 jars of the tasty treat every day.
Four of the top 10 candy bars manufactured in the USA contain peanuts or peanut butter.
Peanuts account for two-thirds of all snack nuts consumed in the USA.
Peanuts contribute more than $4 billion to the USA economy each year.
Americans spend almost $800 million a year on peanut butter.
The average peanut farm is 100 acres.
Peanut butter/peanut paste is the leading use of peanuts produced in the U.S. (1/2); followed by snack nuts and in-shells (1/4); and, candy and confections (1/4).
Peanuts are the #1 snack nut consumed in the U.S., accounting for two-thirds of the snack nut market.
Peanuts are one of the star ingredients in a Snickers bar and each bar contains about 16 peanuts.
About 100 tons of peanuts go into making the 15 million Snickers bars that are produced by Mars, Inc. every day.
