- It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter
- Americans spend almost $800 million a year on peanut butter
- There are enough peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches
- 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.
- Americans eat enough peanut butter in a year to make more than 10 billion peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
- The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school
- The amount of peanut butter eaten in a year could wrap the earth in a ribbon of 18-ounce peanut butter jars one and one-third times
- There are over 700 known phobias. Archibutyrophobia (pronounced A’-ra-kid-bu-ti-ro-pho-bi-a) is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth
Which "fun fact" do you find to be the most interesting? I think the one about how the average child will eat 1,500 pb&j sandwiches before they graduate - surprising . . . for me, I'm sure I ate far more as I LOVE pb&j!
Enjoy Peanut Butter Lovers Day . . . I'm sure I will!
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