Why Do Pistachios' Color Depend on the Iran Hostage Crisis?
04/28/20 • 4 min
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Before the late 1970s, almost all pistachios found in the U.S. were dyed bright red. Learn why -- and why a famous diplomatic standoff changed that -- in this episode of BrainStuff.
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Before the late 1970s, almost all pistachios found in the U.S. were dyed bright red. Learn why -- and why a famous diplomatic standoff changed that -- in this episode of BrainStuff.
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Welcome to Brainstuff, a production of I Heart Radio, Hey brain Stuff Lauren Vogelbaum here. Pistachios are a tasty seed that grow on trees and have cream colored shells and green colored flesh. A pistachio green is a specific hue, soft yellowish green that was super popular in the fall of twenty nineteen. In Pantone's catalog, it's thirteen zero to two one. But there was a time when the pistachios that Americans ate were almost all dyed red, see
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