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What To Do With Pecans For Sale

By Coleen Torres


Nuts in general are packed with nutrients. This includes pecans for sale. Native mainly to the southern United States, pecans are a type of hickory nut. They contain plant sterols, omega-6 fatty acids and antioxidants. A small handful eaten every day has been shown to lower cholesterol levels to the same standard as conventional pharmaceutical drugs. This sounds like a great excuse to eat pecan pie topped with butter pecan ice cream.

Speaking biologically, the pecan is not truly a nut. It is a drupe; a drupe is a type of fruit. It has a skin and a fleshy center around a hard endocarp, within which lies a seed. In most drupes, such as plums, nectarines, peaches and cherries, the endocarp and seed are inedible. This is not true with the pecan, which is the part we eat.

The seeds from the drupe, which are sweet and have a buttery flavor, are edible either fresh or incorporated into recipes, mostly desserts. The wood from the pecan tree is used for making furniture and wooden flooring. It is also burned and used as a fuel for smoking meats. In addition to the southern states, the pecan tree is native to Mexico. The word, "pecan, " means a nut that needs a stone to crack it.

Albany, in the southwest of Georgia, is the center of this state's production of this delightful nut. Other Georgian delicacies include peaches, peanuts, cotton, rye, timber (especially pine), tobacco, hogs and poultry. Atlanta, Georgia, is the home of one of America's (and the world's) favorite cola drinks. Georgia also gave us President Jimmy Carter, the novel, "Gone With the Wind, " and "The Dukes of Hazzard."

The heart of Dixie, Alabama, is also known as the yellowhammer state and also the cotton state. It is also a good source of pecans. Other gifts from Alabama are soybeans, peaches, peanuts and sorghum. Around 20 million people visit Alabama every year; of these, 100,000 come from around the world, mainly, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan. Workers from Alabama were responsible for building the rocket ship that first carried astronauts to the moon.

The northernmost state where you can find pecan trees is Iowa, the heartland of America. Iowa is the nation's largest producer of corn and ethanol. Its other exports include oats, soybeans, hogs and cattle. Major non-economic contributors to the state's economy are the insurance and finance industries. Iowa is the only state bordered by a river on two sides.

Louisiana gives us the New Orleans Saints, Mardi Gras, the Superdome and the praline, a gooey delicacy made from the blessed pecan. It also has a complex and fascinating geological history. With a strong French heritage, Louisiana models its electoral practices after those in France.

Every November on the first full weekend, Louisiana holds a Pecan Festival. Between 60,000 and 70,000 visitors flock to the area to eat pecans and be reined over by a king and queen. The royal couple are selected the previous October in a Louisiana Pecan Festival Beauty and Beau Pageant, the sole purpose of which is to select the king and queen of the festival. You could say that pecans bring a lot of money into the state; and that ain't peanuts!




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