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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (11 children)

TIL peanuts don't grow from a tree lol

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Peanuts, like coconuts, are not nuts. A person with nut allergy is not necessarily allergic to peanuts (and vice versa). They are 2 separate allergies.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Coconut is a stone fruit apparently and peanuts are legumes.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    And here my dumb ass was thinking legume was a fancy word for nut

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Almonds are a stone fruit, too. It's just that the part we eat is inside the pit. Ever notice how almonds still in the shell kinda look like a peach pit?

    Peaches and plums used to be cherry sized, too (and cherries are stone fruits as well, but selective breeding got the fruit-to-pit ratio better for peaches/plums/apricots/nectarines).

    So some recipes call for processing cherry pits, and the flavor is pretty close to almond extract. Because almond extract is just bitter almonds processed in a similar way.

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