Each peanut is finely seasoned with sea salt to enhance the natural roasted nut flavor. These perfectly roasted peanuts have 7 grams of protein and are a good source of vitamin E. Free of cholesterol and trans-fat, PLANTERS® Peanuts have 14 grams of fat per serving and are the perfect on-the-go salty snack.

History. Planters Peanut Company was founded in 1906 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by Amedeo Obici, and incorporated two years later as the Planters Nut and Chocolate Company. In 1916, a young schoolboy, Antonio Gentile submitted drawings of an anthropomorphic peanut to a design contest.

Peanuts come from Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas; almonds and pistachios from California; cashews from India; and filberts from Turkey. They're stored and processed in three buildings totalling 575,000 square feet, about the size of 10 football fields.

Hormel Foods Planters Nut & Chocolate Company is an American snack food company now owned by Hormel Foods. Planters is best known for its processed nuts and for the Mr. Peanut icon that symbolizes them.

Peanuts are rich in protein, fat, and fiber. While peanuts may have a large amount of fat, most of the fats they contain are known as “good fats.” These kinds of fats actually help lower your cholesterol levels. Peanuts are also an excellent source of: Magnesium.

Commercially it is used mainly for oil production but apart from oil, the by-products of peanut contains many other functional compounds like proteins, fibers, polyphenols, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals which can be added as a functional ingredient into many processed foods.

China With roughly 37% of global production, China is the world's top producer of peanuts.

China Global Peanut Trends in 2022 Average annual growth since 2017 has been 0.8%. China is the top consumer, with 17 million metric tons, followed by India, Nigeria, and the United States. South Africa has seen growth of 6.8% year-on-year, while Sierra Leone has seen a decrease of 52.8% since 2017.

So even though we call them nuts they're technically Telugu a type of pea. One way to prepare peanuts is to roast them hold right in their shells. This is known as dry roasting.

PLANTERS® Classic Peanuts let you enjoy snacking with the delicious crunch of quality peanuts. These Kosher peanuts are carefully roasted to enhance their natural deliciousness, then seasoned the exact amount salt to help give you that irresistible flavor you crave.

Italian-born Pennsylvania resident Amedeo Obici founded Planters Peanuts in 1906 with his business partner Mario Peruzzi. Together Obici and Peruzzi opened their business in a factory in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where they roasted, blanched, and salted Virginia peanuts.

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