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Jumbo Roasted Peanuts (In Shell)
Roasted daily to inner perfection, these Jumbo Virginia Roasted Peanuts Unsalted will surely be the highest quality and freshest nuts you will have ever tasted. We have been roasting the old fashioned way since 1929. |
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Jumbo Raw Peanuts (In Shell)
Fresh, Jumbo Raw Peanuts from Virginia in the shell. For those who like to eat them raw, cook them to your own taste, or feed to your little friends. High in protein. |
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Wasabi Peanuts
These wasabi peanuts are really great. Watch out for the kick! Definitely one of our hottest items. |
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Roasted Peanuts (Salted, In Shell)
A brand new addition, roasted and salted peanuts in the shell. These are really good. |
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3 CansBoiled Peanuts
Want to try something new? These boiled peanuts are a great snack! We go through these by the pallet! |
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Roasted Virginia Peanuts (Unsalted, No Shell)
Unsalted extra large Virginia peanuts out of the shell, roasted to perfection. Still America's favorite snack, just without salt! Equally delicious and even more nutritious. |
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Roasted Virginia Peanuts (Salted, No Shell)
Salted extra large Virginia peanuts out of the shell, roasted to perfection. America's favorite snack is now even better and fresher from Nutsonline! |
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Japanese Peanuts
These Japanese style peanuts are so tasty they are addicting. A large peanut coated with a crunchy shell flavored with a hint of soy sauce. One taste and you will understand just how addicting these are! |
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Honey Roasted Peanuts
Freshly roasted peanuts smothered in a honey sugar mixture. You cannot eat just one!! |
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Chocolate Peanuts
Freshly roasted and covered in rich and smooth milk chocolate. One of the best chocolate covered products at an unbeatable price! |
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Spanish Peanuts
Freshly roasted Spanish peanuts with the skin on. A touch of salt is added to enhance the rich taste! This is a great specialty product. |
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Cajun Peanuts
Perfectly roasted peanuts encased in a crunchy shell, then coated with the perfect amount of cajun seasoning. One bite will have your taste buds begging for more. |
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Butternut Peanuts
Peanuts in a rich buttery coating make for a really great snack. A real crunchy treat for that peanut lover with a sweet tooth. |
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Blanched Peanuts
A shelled raw peanut with the shell and skin taken off. These are ideal for baking or personal roasting and have become a top seller to our baking customers. |
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Boston Baked Beans
These are the famous and original Boston Baked Beans. Well not the original original, because these are really fresh, but you know what we mean! These are crunchy and sweet coated peanuts. |
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Peanut Crunch
A delicious mixture of peanuts, sugar, honey and molasses make up Peanut Crunch. Great for any party, or for simply anything. Crunch away! |
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3 cansCajun Boiled Peanuts
Cajun boiled peanuts - just like the regular variety, but with a cajun kick! |
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Yogurt Peanuts
First, we take only the finest dry roasted goobers. Then, we coat them in the smoothest tasting yogurt coating available to create one of the best tasting yogurt peanuts around. You won't find these anywhere! |
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Chocolate Peanuts (Sugar Free)
Freshly roasted peanut covered in sugar free chocolate. You will hardly be able to notice that these have no sugar. |
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French Burnt Peanuts
These French burnt peanuts used to be sold by the scoopful at the corner candy store, Now, they are a bit harder to find. Delicious, fresh Spanish peanuts, covered in a crunchy candy shell. A favorite of dads and grandpa's everywhere! These prickly candy coated peanuts are an old-time favorite |
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Sesame Peanuts
Peanuts covered in a deliciously crunchy coating with sesame seeds These are similar to what is found in many Asian markets. |
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Roasted Super Jumbo Virginia Peanuts (Salted, No Shell)
These Super Jumbo Peanuts are the largest peanuts you can find anywhere! Picked straight from Virginia and roasted fresh, these salted peanuts are the largest and best tasting that can be found. |
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Sugar Toasted Peanuts
Roasted peanuts covered in a red sugar coating. These are similar to French Roasted peanuts. Equally yummy, regardless of what you call them! |
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Dark Chocolate Covered Peanuts
Freshly dry roasted peanuts smothered in rich and silky dark chocolate. |
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Organic Dry Roasted Peanuts (Unsalted, No Shell)
Organic dry roasted Valencia peanuts out of the shell are smaller than the traditional Virginia peanuts, but pack a much sweeter taste. These are absolutely delicious to snack on. |
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Roasted Super Jumbo Virginia Peanuts (Unsalted, No Shell)
These Super Jumbo Peanuts are the largest peanuts you can find anywhere! Picked straight from Virginia and roasted fresh, these peanuts are the largest and best tasting that can be found. |
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Organic Raw Peanuts (In Shell)
Organic raw Valencia peanuts in the shell are all natural, raw, and organic. These are smaller than the traditional Virgina peanuts, but pack a much sweeter taste. Wonderful to snack on, roast on your own, or for birds and squirrels. |
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Circus Peanuts
The one of a kind taste of Circus Peanuts. These will really bring back those childhood memories. Unlike stale store bought brands, you can always count on soft and delicious Circus Peanuts from NutsOnline. |
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Raw Spanish Peanuts
Raw spanish peanuts |
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Raw Redskin Peanuts
Raw redskin peanuts |
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Organic Raw Peanuts (No Shell)
Organic Valencia peanuts. These peanuts are are all natural, raw, organic, and with the skin still on. Valencia are smaller than the traditional Virginia peanuts but are sweeter and have an amazing taste. |
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Organic Wild Jungle Peanuts
***WE ARE CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK***Organic Jungle Wild Peanuts are beautiful heirloom nuts, wild crafted by the Shuar tribe of the Amazon, taste familiar
yet new. These raw peanuts are rich, aromatic and earthy. Unlike the hybridized peanuts so many people are
allergic to, Jungle Peanuts are 100% free of aflatoxin (tested regularly). They are loaded with 40% heart healthy oleic acid and 26% protein (including amino acids like methionine) Enjoy by the handful, in trail mixes, or soaked and blended into nut milks. |
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Seaweed Peanuts
Peanuts covered in a deliciously crunchy coating with real pieces of seaweed mixed into the coating. These are similar to what is found in many Asian markets. |
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12 ounce containersDark Chocolate Peanut Clusters
Dark chocolate peanut clusters also known as Turtles. We take fresh roasted peanuts and cover them in gooey and delicious caramel. Then smother them in only the best dark chocolate. |
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12 ounce containersMilk Chocolate Peanut Clusters
Milk chocolate peanut clusters also known as Turtles. We take fresh roasted peanuts and cover them in gooey and delicious caramel. Then smother them in only the smoothest best tasting milk chocolate. |
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Organic Roasted Peanuts (In Shell)
Organic dry roasted Valencia peanuts in the shell are smaller than the traditional Virginia peanuts but have a much sweeter and smoother taste. |
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Organic Dry Roasted Peanuts (Salted, No Shell)
Organic dry roasted and salted Valencia peanuts out of the shell are smaller than the traditional Virginia peanuts but pack a much sweeter taste. These are absolutely delicious to snack on. |
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Chopped Peanuts
Delicious chopped peanuts with no salt. Ideal for ice cream toppings, baking, and cooking. Also known as granulated peanuts. |
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Organic Roasted Peanuts (Salted, In Shell)
Organic dry roasted and salted Valencia peanuts in the shell are a really great snack. Smaller than the traditional Virgina peanuts, these organic peanuts are much sweeter and make for an awesome snack. |
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Organic Peanut Butter (Crunchy, Unsalted)
Delicious dry roasted peanuts are used to make this incredibly crunchy organic peanut butter. There are no additives such as sugar or salt. Just pure peanut butter. |
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Organic Peanut Butter (Smooth, Unsalted)
Delicious dry roasted peanuts are used to make this incredibly smooth organic peanut butter. There are no additives such as sugar or salt. Just pure peanut butter. |
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Peanuts are one of the most well-known and popular nuts around. However, what most people do not know is that peanuts are not actually nuts but legumes. Similar to the pea and bean, its name is predicated on the nut-like characteristics of the fruit. Due to popular usage rather than botanical consideration, it is generally considered to be a “nut.”
The peanut is native to South America. There is archaeological evidence that the peanuts had already been introduced in pre Columbian times to the dry, coastal regions of Peru near the Trujillo and Ancon some thirty-five centuries ago. Radioactive carbon dating indicates that peanuts were known in Peru at the time of the introduction of ceramic pottery, about 1200 to 1500 B.C. Well-preserved peanut plant remains have been found in Inca mummy bundles and burial sites, often contained in small string bags along with other plant remains including maize, beans, chili peppers and coca. Terra cotta funerary vases, decorated with molded replicas of peanut pods, have been unearthed in several prehistoric, Peruvian coastal cemeteries.
Before the Civil War, peanuts were known throughout the South as groundnuts, ground peas, pindars, goobers and goober peas. Dealers of other edible nuts suggested that peanuts were lowly food fit only for the poor. However, that could be further from the truth. During the Civil War military campaign in eastern Virginia where the crop was being cultivated, thousands of soldiers from both sides and all parts of the country tasted peanuts for the first time and to know and appreciate them. From time to time, they were rations for Confederate troops, which gave rise to the popular folk song of the day known as “eating Goober Peas:”
“Sitting by roadside, on a summer day, Chatting with my messmates, passing time away, Living in the shadow, underneath the trees, Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! Eating goober peas! Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas!”
After Appomattox in 1865, returning soldiers brought back peanuts to places where the nuts had previously been unknown, thus creating new demand. Within the next five years, peanut production in the United States increased two hundred percent. Around 1870, the famous showman, Phineas T. Barnum, introduced peanuts to New York City through his circus. By the end of the nineteenth century, they were being eaten as a snack throughout the country, sold fresh-roasted by street vendors as well as at baseball games and circuses, as circus wagons rolled into towns from Maine to California. Peanuts were consumed in the cheap seats of theatre balconies, which became known as “peanut galleries.”
Around 1920, farmers in the southern states were forced to find another cash crop to take the place of cotton: the boll weevil, a grayish, long-snouted beetle that infested and destroyed cotton bolls, had ravaged cotton to such an extent in many regions that the crop was no longer profitable. They were found to be an ideal substitute: they grew well on cotton land, cropping systems and oil mills could readily be converted from cotton to peanuts.
George Washington Carver, an American botanist, was a pioneer in peanut research. Born a slave on a Missouri farm, he worked his way through school and college, earning a master’s degree in agriculture from Iowa Agriculture College(later named Iowa State), where he became the first black faculty member. In 1896 he accepted an invitation to come to Tuskegee Institute as head of the new Department of Agriculture. For forty-seven years, Carver taught, wrote and worked in his Tuskegee laboratory where he developed over 300 products from peanuts, peanut shells and peanut foliage, ranging from cheese and mayonnaise to shaving cream, soaps, dyes, wallboard and plastics. He was able to serve an entire dinner in which all food was made from peanuts, including soup, meat, vegetables, milk, ice cream and coffee. He taught farmers in the South how to increase their peanut production and grow better peanuts, while he encouraged farmers to plant hardy peanuts instead of cotton. This extraordinary scientist refused to allow any of his discoveries to be patented since he wanted them to be available for the widest possible use.
Today, there are three main types of peanuts grown in the United States: Virginias, Runners (which have red skins), and Spanish (which have tan skins). These varieties usually contain two kernels in each shell. The Virginia kernel, grown mostly in the Virginia-Carolina region, is the largest and, when shelled, is in demand as cocktail nuts and salted peanuts. The medium sized Runners and small Spanish peanuts are utilized in the manufacture of peanut candies, peanut butter and peanut oil. The Southeast grows mainly Runners, while the Southwest produces roughly two-thirds Spanish and one-third Runners. A small amount of another type of peanut called Valencia, in demand for roasting in the shell is produced in New Mexico; it has a long shell which contains three or four small, sweet kernels. The relative popularity of these various types has changed over time and today the Runner dominates, accounting for seventy-two percent of total production. Virginias follow with some sixteen percent, and Spanish about eleven percent, and Valencia only .6 percent.
India is by far the world’s largest producer of peanuts, followed by main land China. India and China together, produce over fifty percent of the world’s bulk peanuts. The United States follows in third place, despite much higher yields per acre—about triple the average in India.
Peanuts have to be dug out of the soil during harvesting and thus contain a high moisture level of twenty-five to thirty-five percent which must be reduced to ten percent to help prevent spoilage. About ten percent of the Unites States peanut crop is sold in the shell. Mostly the Virginia and Valencia type. The remaining peanuts are cleaned, shelled, graded, and then packaged to be sent out for selling.
In the United States, the major use for peanuts is for peanut butter followed by salted and shelled. They contain about twenty-six percent protein. Higher than dairy products, eggs, fish, and many cuts of meat. Since their inception in the United States, peanuts have been and continue to be the most widely used “nut” in this country.
They can be prepared in a variety of ways. Roasted are very popular. Boiled peanuts are another tasty snack. If you like your nuts spicy, try our Cajun or wasabi peanuts. Or if you have a sweet tooth, try our chocolate covered or butternut varieties.
We also offer wholesale peanuts.
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