Why Pistachios Used To Be Red

The strange reason pistachios were painted red for almost a hundred years. ✨   • How a Tiny Beetle Put Peanut Butter on You...   #pistachio #foodhistory #fooddocumentary 💚 If you reached into a bowl of pistachios fifty years ago, you would have pulled out something bright red. Not green. Red. And twenty minutes later your fingers and your lips were stained the same guilty color. For almost a hundred years, that was simply what a pistachio looked like to most Americans. But the red had nothing to do with the nut itself, and nothing to do with flavor. It was hiding something. This is the strange reason pistachios used to be red, and the even stranger reason they turned green again. 🧠 SUBSCRIBE for more curious bites of food history! / @TheCuriousCucumber Thanks so much for watching!