Did you know peanut butter was marketed as “Protein for People with no Teeth?”  Here are 5 facts about one of my favorite foods!

1. Peanuts grow underground.  That’s why they’re technically a legume, not a nut.  Nuts grow on trees.

2. It takes 540 peanuts to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.   That’s according to the National Peanut Board.  Anything labeled peanut butter has to be at least 90% peanuts.

3. There are 6 cities in the U.S. with “peanut” in their name.  Peanut, California . . . Peanut, Tennessee . . . Peanut West Virginia . . . Peanut, Pennsylvania . . . Upper Peanut, Pennsylvania . . . and Lower Peanut, Pennsylvania.  (They’re all near Pittsburgh.  Upper and Lower Peanut are next to each other.  Peanut, Pennsylvania is about 40 miles northeast of them.)

4. Peanut butter was originally sold as a peanut substitute for people with no teeth.  A year after it was invented in 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg . . . yes, that Kellogg . . . tried to market it as a good source of protein for toothless people.

5. The record for the farthest a peanut has ever been thrown is just over 124 feet.   A guy in the U.K. did it in 2008, and it still stands.