Peanuts (though not a true nut, but a legume)

Consumption Facts

• The average American consumes more than six pounds of peanuts and peanut butter products each year.

• The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school.

• Americans consume on average over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut butter and peanut products each year.

• Peanut butter is consumed in 90 percent of USA households.

• Americans eat enough peanut butter in a year to make more than 10 billion peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

• 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.