What's your favorite nut?
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Pecans are my all-around fave. I am blessed and get amazing local pecans for free, I have 20 or 30 grams as a snack almost every day!
I do also love peanuts (not nuts at all, I know), cashews, and macadamias.0 -
Macadamia. God they are delicious with the calories to prove it! Pecans are my second favorite. Then pistachios, walnuts, almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts...not a big fan of cashews.1
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My 7 year old0
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My favorite nut is my girlfriend!0
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I like all of them, but I really do like Brazil nuts.0
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In love with pistachios right now, but they're so darn expensive. Lately I've been getting fruit and nut mixes from Trader Joe's and they're so addicting. I have to watch myself because those calories, though nutritious, add up so fast!!1
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Be careful not to eat too many brazilnuts in a day because it is extremely rich in selenium.1
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Ayse818181 wrote: »Be careful not to eat too many brazilnuts in a day because it is extremely rich in selenium.
I'm guessing selenium gets toxic at some point? I'll Google that now, even tho I don't eat them that often. Almonds are a staple food, I just really like the flavor of Brazil nuts. Thanks for the insight tho!0 -
Cashews for me!0
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Tiikerinraidat wrote: »Cashews for me!
This is the one true answer.0 -
Brazil nuts
Macadamias
Soaked walnuts. Unsoaked walnuts are bitter and gross tasting.0 -
The jig is up!
For too long peanuts have masqueraded as America's favorite nut.
For too long, almonds have snuck into the mixed nuts bag at your grocery.
We've been foolishly snacking on 'nuts' that are definitely not nuts, and it's time to set the record straight.
Here are the five most common impostors:
Peanuts
Most edible nuts, like pecans or hazelnuts, grow on trees. But peanuts grow in pods that mature underground and are classified as a legume, like lentils and peas.
Cashews
Technically, nuts are a type of fruit. Fruits develop from a plant's ovary, and as the ovary matures it forms a wall around the fruit. For common fruits like apples and peaches, the ovary wall is the fleshy outer skin while for nuts the ovary wall is the hard, outer shell.
Cashews, on the other hand, are a seed of the cashew apple, shown here. The cashew seed is the c-shaped, greyish object at the bottom of the fruit.
Walnuts
Walnuts are another seed masquerading as a nut. Their shells mature and harden inside of a fibrous, green husk, but it's common to extract the walnut prematurely for the English delicacy pickled walnuts.
Pistachios
The desert plant called the pistachio tree is a member of the cashew family, and as we've mentioned before: cashews are not a nut. The food that we think of as a pistachio nut, is actually the seed of the pistachio tree, shown here.
Almonds are the seed of the almond tree, which is native to the Middle East and South Asia and is famous for its gorgeous blossoms. In 1890, post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh dedicated an entire painting to the almond tree's beauty.
Makes you think twice about that container of mixed nuts.
The traditional Planters mixed nuts contains the following:
-Peanuts (legume)
-Almonds (seed)
-Cashews (seed)
-Brazil nuts (seed)
-Hazelnuts (real nut!)
-Pecans (real nut!)
Just because most commercially marketed 'nuts' are not actually nuts doesn't mean they taste any less delicious!
So, next time you're snacking on some Planters — or your favorite brand — be sure to enjoy the seeds and legumes as well.
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Lightly-salted macadamia nuts, oh yeah.0
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marcona almonds with olive oil and sea salt... OM NOM NOM!
pistachios are coming in at a close second. crazily i have only tried them recently. didn't know what i was missing!0 -
Pecan. Because pie.1
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