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Do peanuts come from peas?

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  1. No, but peanuts are legumes, in the same family as peas. This is why people down south boil them in the shells and then eat them... (when you do this they taste like beans... pintos or navy, whatever... because that's basically what they are.)


  2. no...they come 4rm the dirt!

  3. Peanuts are legumes.

  4. male peas

  5. No.  Peanuts is a legume like lima beans and black beans.  They come from a plant that grows the peanuts underground like potatoes.

  6. No.  Peanuts come from peanut plants.  The actual peanuts grow underground, in shells, on the roots of the peanut plant.  They are considered a legume, and not a nut.

  7. did you try to look in the dictionary

    or encyclopedia??

    http://education.yahoo.com/reference/

    pea�nut

    NOUN:

    1: A prostrate southern Brazilian plant (Arachis hypogaea) widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions, having yellow flowers on stalks that bend over so that the seed pods ripen underground.

    2: The edible, nutlike, oily seed of this plant, used for food and as a source of oil.Also called regionally goober , goober

  8. very MANLY peas !

    usually bigger than the pea itself !

  9. Peanuts and peas are related, they are both legumes.  However, they are different plants.  Peas grow in pods above the ground.  Peanuts grow in pods beneath the ground.

  10. R U SERIOUS? NAAAAA CAN'T B.

  11. No, they are 2 different kind of food
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