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Pete Pecan
"Howdy, I'm Chef Pete! I spend hours in the kitchen cooking hundreds of recipes made with sweet Texas pecans. Pecans have so many uses, and are just as good tasting and good for you when eaten right out of their shell. They make a great snack and a crunchy topping for fruit and veggies.

Pecans are packed with loads of vitamins like iron for your blood, calcium for strong bones, potassium for healthy muscles, phosphorus for a working metabolism, magnesium for your enzymes and zinc for your taste buds. So, get crackin' and have some pecans!"

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Learn more about Texas pecans:
  • There's a pecan tree in almost every Texas county, which means you shouldn't have any trouble finding great-tasting pecans in the Lone Star State.

  • Did you know that the pecan tree is the official state tree of Texas?
  • One pecan tree can grow up to 400 pounds of nuts in a good year. That's a lot of squirrel food! You can see pecan trees in action here in Texas, which produced 70 million pounds of pecans in 2001.


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