For thousands of years, nuts have been a staple of the human diet. The peanut plant is generally thought to have originated in South America. Spread by European explorers, the plant eventually reached Asian, Africa, and North America.The walnut was a favorite of the ancient Greeks and Romans while the pecans were a favorite of the Native Americans and the Chinese believed the hazelnut was one of the five sacred nourishments. People also believed that chocolate had divine properties.
The Aztecs and Mayans prepared drinking chocolate for all their sacred rituals. In the 17th century chocolate became a very fashionable drink throughout Europe and people soon learned that everything tastes better when it’s covered in chocolate. By the middle of the 19th century it was a common practice to dip items like pretzels, nuts, and fruits into melted chocolate.
Dark chocolate seems to posses substantial amount of antioxidants, while the nuts contain the essential fatty acids and linolenic acids. The fats in nuts for the most part are unsaturated fats, including monounsaturated fats. Nuts also provide arginine, a substance that may help make the walls of the arteries more flexible and less prone to blockage from blood clot formation. Many nuts are good sources of vitamins E and B2, and are rich in protein, folate, fiber and essential minerals, such as magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper and selenium(Please be discreet in consumption because too much nuts has its own side effects)
The original chocolate covered peanut candy are Goobers which were first sold in 1925. The word “Goober” was a common slang word for peanut.
One of the more well-known chocolate covered nut is the M & M. These chocolate covered peanuts or chocolate covered almonds have become a favorite of many. The peanut M & M was introduced in 1954. They were tan until 1960 when the colors red, yellow and green were introduced.
You can eat some chocolate covered peanuts today.But be discreet in consumption.
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