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Americans make pistachio salad, which includes fresh pistachios or pistachio pudding, whipped cream, and canned fruit. [49] Indian cooking uses pounded pistachios with grilled meats, and in pulao rice dishes. The shell of the pistachio is naturally a beige color, but it may be dyed red or green in commercial pistachios.
Pistachios originate from the seed of the pistachio tree fruit (Pistacia vera tree) and they’re part of the cashew family. (Learn more about how cashews grow .)
The crop generated nearly $3 billion last year in California and in the past decade the United States has surpassed Iran to become the world’s top exporter of the nut.
Members of this family produce cashew and pistachio nuts, and mango and marula fruits. [5] Some members [which?] produce a viscous or adhesive fluid which turns black and is used as a varnish or for tanning and even as a mordant for red dyes. [5] The sap of Toxicodendron vernicifluum is used to make lacquer for lacquerware and similar products.
A number of globally cultivated fruits may have originated in prehistoric Iran, including pomegranates (locally known today as anâr), dates (from the Persian Gulf coastal region), Persian walnuts (gerdu or formerly/dialectally gowz), and possibly grapes (from the northwest), [citation needed] though in each case the precise place of original cultivation is difficult to know with certainty.
Pistachio cream. Pistachio butter. Pistachio bars. The popular nut is everywhere. Dietitians say: Eat up.
Helmeted guinea fowl in tall grass. Many foods were originally domesticated in West Africa, including grains like African rice, Pearl Millet, Sorghum, and Fonio; tree crops like Kola nut, used in Coca-Cola, and Oil Palm; and other globally important plant foods such as Watermelon, Tamarind, Okra, Black-eye peas, and Yams. [2]
Mastic resin from Pistacia lentiscus. Pistacia is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae.It contains 10 to 20 species that are native to Africa and Eurasia from the Canary Islands, all of Africa, and southern Europe, warm and semidesert areas across Asia, and North America from Guatemala to Mexico, as well as southern Texas.
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