The History of Peanut Butter

Skippy Peanut Butter Advertisement (1958)

Time Magazine's Brief History of Peanut Butter

"Huffington's Peanut Trivia:

• Peanuts are actually not nuts but legumes grown underground.


• The U.S. is the third largest producer of peanuts (Georgia and Texas are the two major peanut-producing states). China and India are the first and second largest producers, respectively.


• More than half of the American peanut crop goes into making peanut butter.


• U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Thomas Jefferson were peanut farmers.


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


• Americans eat around 700 million pounds of peanut butter per year (about 3 pounds per person).


• An average American child eats 1,500 PB&J sandwiches before graduating from high school."

 Huffington's article on Peanut Butter