Peach Almond

I was eating a peach today and got to the seed to find an almond in there!

What! I felt parallax error coming on and started to wonder if maybe i had eaten almonds earlier on in the day (which I had) and got one stuck between my teeth (which is impossible) and it fell out right into the middle of the peach while I wasn’t watching (which I was, as it was delicious and i was savouring its look and taste).

So I looked it up and here you go…

“The almond is a dry-fleshed, close relative of the peach, the fleshy edible peach pulp being replaced in the almond by a thin leathery hull.”

And you can eat them… so I did!

” The important feature distinguishing the peach pip from the almond is taste. The cultivated edible almond is sweet, not bitter, as are most peach seeds. Since plants seem to delight in not fitting into categories, there is, naturally, a bitter almond used widely to produce almond essence and , yes, peach pips that are sweet and edible.”