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Peanut Facts
- Approximately half of the peanuts grown in the United States are grown within a 100-mile radius of Dothan, Alabama.
- Alabama has 1,800 peanut farmers who employ an additional 4,000 full-time employees.
- The National Peanut Festival, the nation's largest peanut festival, is held each fall in Dothan, Alabama to honor peanut growers and celebrate the harvest season. The event brings more than 120,000 guests to the area. This year's NPF will be November 2-10, 2007. For more information, call the NPF office at (334) 793-4323.
- Americans consume 700 million pounds or 3.3 pounds per person, of peanut butter per year….that's enough to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon.
- There are approximately 810 peanuts in an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.
- The United States produces four basic varieties of peanuts: Runner, Virginia, Spanish and Valencia. Each type is distinctive in size and flavor. Runners are grown mainly in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Oklahoma.
- Brundidge, Alabama hosts the annual Brundidge Peanut Butter Festival the last Saturday in October. For more information, call (334) 735-2385.
- The peanut is unusual because it flowers above the ground, but fruits below the ground.
- By law, any product labeled "peanut butter" in the United States must be at least 90% peanuts.
- Nearly half of the United States peanut crop is used to make peanut butter.
- In the U.S., annual peanut production (about 1.5 million tons per year) often exceeds the production of beans and peas combined.
- Worldwide, about 2/3 of the crop is processed for peanut oil.
- 20% of the world's peanut production is used in candy.
- Peanut oil accounts for 8% of the worlds edible oil production.
- Peanuts are also called goobers, goober peas, pindars, ground nuts, earth nuts, monkey nuts, and grass nuts.
- Peanuts are members of the pea family.
- Georgia is the largest producer of peanuts in the U.S.
- The first peanuts grown in the United States were grown in Virginia.
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