Trying to eat healthier, (edit for me this means lower sugar, less carbs, more protein) and it seems like everything that is sweet, sweet-ish, or a snack but also sold as healthy has peanuts or is peanuts. I’m not allergic to it, but I am tired of peanut butter cookies, peanuts in a snack bar, peanuts on their own, peanuts in a snack mix.
Peanuts are unbelievably inexpensive to grow, and are a solid option for nutrition and people tend to enjoy the flavor. So, y’know, sorry to all the allergic people.
Yeah, they grow kind of like a potato as nodules
on the rootsof an annual plant that’s easy to grow as a field crop. As opposed to tree nuts that grow on trees that take a long time to produce, need regular maintenance, need lots of irrigation to produce well, and are more difficult to mechanically harvest.The two groups are drastically different in what it takes to grow and process them.
I was in a Thai restaurant once and overheard a woman actually say to the waiter “I’m allergic to peanuts, is there anything on the menu you’d recommend”. I left shortly afterwards so didn’t see if she died by breathing the air in there…
I figured they had to be cheap. So many products skimp on everything else and put lots of peanuts or peanut butter in there
I kept a bag of raw peanuts for a little too long once and they started to sprout. I stuck some in a planter and those things grew like crazy.