What To Do With Pecans For Sale

By Coleen Torres


Nuts of all kinds have loads of nutritional value. Pecans for sale are no exception. These tasty, hickory morsels grown in the deep southern United States contain antioxidants, plant sterols and omega-6 fatty acids. Eating a small handful every day can help to reduce cholesterol as well as some cholesterol-fighting pharmaceuticals. Scientists have not yet commented on whether butter pecan ice cream or pecan pie fulfill this important function.

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 pecan drupe have a buttery, sweet taste and may be eaten just as they are or cooked and integrated into recipes. Desserts are the most common recipes that use pecans but there are others. Native to the American south, pecan trees are also native to Mexico. The very word, pecan, means you need a rock to crack it. We do not know the Algonquin word for sledgehammer. The wood from the pecan tree may be burned and used for fuel to smoke meats. It is also used in hardwood flooring and in furniture.

Georgia is one of the American states that we have to thank for our pecan delicacies. They are grown mainly in the southwest part of the state in Albany. Other products of the Peach State are, well, peaches, as well as pine timber, tobacco, cotton, peanuts, rye, poultry and hogs. Georgia is famous for the Dukes of Hazzard, Gone With the Wind and former President Jimmy Carter.

Alabama, the Heart of Dixie and the yellowhammer state, is also a prolific nut producer. Alabama, the "cotton state, " also produces peaches, sorghum, soybeans and peanuts. Alabama gets roughly 20 million visitors each year, about 100,000 of whom are from other countries including Canada, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. The first rocket that brought astronauts to the moon was built by workers in Alabama.

The northernmost state where pecan trees may be found is Iowa, the heartland of America. Other major products include corn and ethanol, but the state also products soybeans, oats, cattle and hogs. Non-agricultural sectors that bring in capital to the state are insurance and finance.

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.

Two months out of each year, October and November, are spent preparing for the annual Pecan Festival. First, in October, the Louisiana Pecan Festival Beauty and Beau pageant is held to name a king and queen to rein over November's Pecan Festival. Between sixty and seventy thousand people attend every year. The amount of tourist dollars they bring in could hardly be described as peanuts.




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