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Peanuts originate with South American Indigenous people

Marie Hoyer
Mar 11, 2024
Mar 11, 2024

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March 1 is known as National Peanut Day. We have various South American countries to thank for this legume which grows underground and not on trees. As with so many of our various foods, early European Spanish explorers were exposed to the peanuts and brought them back to their country where the seeds were also circulated to Asia and Africa.

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