The nuts come from all over the United States and the world, said Dan Huss , plant manager . Peanuts come from Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas; almonds and pistachios from California; cashews from India; and filberts from Turkey.

Mr. Peanut - full name Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe - was born in 1916, when schoolboy Antonio Gentile submitted his design for an anthropomorphic peanut mascot to a Planters contest.

Planters was founded by Italian immigrant Amedeo Obici in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He started his career as a bellhop and fruit stand vendor in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Obici later moved to Wilkes-Barre, opened his own fruit stand, and invested in a peanut roaster.

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.

According to the dictionary, a planter is “a decorative container, of a variety of sizes and shapes, for growing flowers or ornamental plants”, so a planter is a container where you can plant some plants.

These creamy, fresh, savory flavored cashews are nutritious and delicious snack foods the whole family will love. Snack Strong: Irresistibly crunchy PLANTERS® Cashews Rosemary & Sea Salt contain 5g of plant-based protein and 170 calories per 1oz serving to help ward off hunger and keep you going between mealtimes.

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.

Types of Peanuts

• Runner. Runners have become the dominant type due to the introduction in the early 1970's of a new runner variety, the Florunner, which was responsible for a spectacular increase in peanut yields.
• Virginia.
• Spanish.
• Valencia.

A flowerpot or box for plants. Jardiniere, one such type of pot, mostly indoor types. Cachepot, another term for the same. Flower box, another type of planter, mostly for outdoors. Window box, a planter attached to a windowsill, on the outside.

Various machines meter out seeds for sowing in rows. The ones that handle larger seeds tend to be called planters, whereas the ones that handle smaller seeds tend to be called seed drills, grain drills, and seeders (including precision seeders).

Amedeo Obici 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.

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.