Study: Snacking On Nuts Can Reduce Risk Of Heart Disease, Cancer

CBS Boston ^ | December 6, 2016

[XEHRpa]

Well, nuts grow on tree branches, while peanuts grow underground in the plant root system. That should be the first clue that something is up. As others have noted, peanuts are in the bean (legume) family.

[editor-surveyor]

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I eat almond butter all the time. Never eat peanut butter.
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[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Peanuts are not nuts. I’m allergic to nuts.

Exactomundo. I'm also allergic to tree nuts: Almonds, walnuts, pecans, Brazil nuts, cashews.

Peanuts are classified as a legume (i.e. the bean family).

[editor-surveyor]

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Have you ever observed the tremendous structural similarity between peanuts and cashews?
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[Ditter]

This is good news! I keep a large jar filled with walnuts and dried cranberries on my kitchen counter and I eat a handful or two every day.

Finally I am doing something right!

[madison10]

They are legumes, not nuts. Just ask the squirrels. They don’t get enough nutrition from peanuts.

[posterchild]

What other beans grow underground?

[Will88]

Why do we never see almond butter, cashew butter, walnut butter...only peanut butter?

The health food folks offer several types.

Nut butters

[posterchild]

Europeans really seem to love their hazelnuts.

[Ditter]

Very odd, nuts makes your wife’s face break out. Orange juice makes mine break out.

[editor-surveyor]

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Peanuts share nothing structural with legumes.

Could be an arbitrary classification. Legumes grow on the upper structure of the plant, just as nuts do.
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[GregoTX]

Very Keto

[Gamecock]

Oh! Nuts! Excellent! You know what I love? How there’s two nuts named after people. Hazel…and Filbert.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What other beans grow underground?

Black eyed peas

Green beans

Lima beans

Red beans

[XEHRpa]

Indeed, the similarty to cashews and other nuts is so great that they actually put the name “nut” into “peanut”. And yes, it is not lost on me that legumes, like nuts, grow above ground, whereas peanuts do not.

Clearly, it is a mystery wrapped in a riddle, surrounded by an enigma. I think George Washington Carver knew this.

[WhatNot]

I guess it’s just a DNA thing

[Cicero]

I generally have a bit of date walnut cake for lunch, from our local Co-op. Tastes great, and good for you too.

[DCBryan1]

[XEHRpa]

I would add that pea-nut contains the name of a legume (”pea”) as well as the name “nut”. The mystery deepens.

[editor-surveyor]

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LOL!
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