A Favorite Food for Humans and Animals Alike

Peanut butter makes a superior mouse trap bait compared to meat or cheese. Not only do mice prefer it to cheese, but its sticky texture reduces the mouse's ability to steal the bait and not get caught. For people who like animals, peanut butter is also a good food ingredient for squirrels. It also provides hours of entertainment if you feed it to your dog.

Fun Facts About Peant Butter

Here are some fun tidbits about peanut butter that you may not have known.

• Peanut butter accounts for over half of U.S. peanut production, and Americans eat almost 7 pounds of peanuts and peanut butter per capita.
• People who become hysterical when peanut butter sticks to the roof of their mouth have 'arachibutyrophobia'.
• It takes about 550 peanuts to make a 12 ounce jar of creamy peanut butter.
• Creamy peanut butter is preferred on the East Coast, Chunky on the West Coast.
• The Jif plant in Lexington, Kentucky is reportedly the largest peanut butter factory in the world.
• Peanut butter's high protein content draws moisture from your mouth. That's why it sticks to the roof of your mouth.
• Peanut butter was almost uniquely American until about the 1960s. - most of the rest of the world just didn’t understand it at all.