Crop of Now is satire. The jokes are ours. The peanut facts are not, and this is where they come from.
Irrigation water per ounce, global averages for shelled nuts: about 1.6 gallons for peanuts and about 28.6 gallons for almonds. That's about 26 and 457 gallons per pound. The study reports 214 and 3,816 cubic meters of "blue" (irrigation) water per ton (Table 3), which is the same as liters per kilogram.
Peanuts are legumes, not nuts. Like other legumes, they host bacteria in their roots that pull nitrogen from the air, so they supply most of their own nitrogen and are usually grown with little or no nitrogen fertilizer.
U.S. peanuts are dug from September into November, depending on where they're grown.
In 2014, Dan Frost of the Bayerisches Geoinstitut at the University of Bayreuth squeezed peanut butter at extreme pressure while studying how carbon behaves in the Earth's mantle, and got diamond.
Valencias are less than one percent of the U.S. crop, usually have three or more kernels per shell and red skins, and grow mainly around Portales, New Mexico. The full briefing is in Field Report No. 001.
"540 peanuts in a 12-ounce jar" and "enough peanut butter to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon" are widely repeated peanut trivia. We haven't found an independent study behind either one, so we present them as trivia, give or take.
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