Washington / DC. (gov) March is National Peanut Month – celebrating one of the United States’ favourite foods, and absolutely America’s favourite snack nut. They are enjoyed in many ways – roasted in the shell, used in salads and stir-fry recipes, in cookies and, of course, ground into peanut butter. The idea of honouring the peanut has been a monthlong observance since 1974. Americans eat an average of more than six pounds of shelled peanuts a year, about half in the form of peanut butter. American peanuts have a global customer base. In 2014, about 450 million USD worth were exported. Over 22 percent of that went to Canada, and nearly 18 percent to Mexico. At the other end of the scale, Australia imported only 4’600 USD worth of American peanuts – according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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