People have been eating pistachios those green, slightly sweet nuts  for thousands of years. Salted Pistas are not only tasty and crunchy in nature but are loaded with miraculous health benefits.

Although most consider them a nut, pistachios are seeds from the pistachio tree. The kernels can have different colors, ranging from yellow to shades of green. They’re usually about an inch long and half an inch in diameter. But if you want to taste one, you’ll have to crack open its hard shell first.

The pistachio tree originated in western Asia, and archaeologists believe pistachios became a food as early as 7,000 B.C. They came to the United States in the mid-19th century and commercial production began in the 1970s.