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Food & Drink

How long is a peanut?

A peanut is about 3 cm (1.18 in) long.

What is measured: whole unshelled pod, length

Peanut (3 cm) drawn to scale beside a large coin (2.4 cm) and a smartphone (14.7 cm)
Drawn to scale, from left to right: Large coin (2.4 cm), Peanut (3 cm) and Smartphone (14.7 cm).

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How big is that, really?

  • About 2 would fit end to end along a credit card
  • About 1.3× the width of a large coin
  • As long as about 4 grains of rice end to end
  • About 4 would fit end to end along a smartphone
  • About 15× the width of a raindrop

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Facts about Peanut

Unlike most legumes, peanut pods develop underground after the plant’s flowers bend down into the soil.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Peanut”; National Peanut Board, “Peanut 101”

Food & Drink

NameSizeCompared with Peanut
Blueberry1.5 cm (0.59 in)0.5×
Sunflower seed1.5 cm (0.59 in)0.5×
Grape2 cm (0.79 in)0.67×
Cherry2 cm (0.79 in)0.67×
Raspberry2 cm (0.79 in)0.67×
Peanut3 cm (1.18 in)this page
Strawberry5 cm (1.97 in)1.7×
Chicken egg6 cm (2.36 in)2×
Garlic bulb6 cm (2.36 in)2×
Lemon7 cm (2.76 in)2.3×

Test your sense of scale

Which is bigger: Peanut or Grape?

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