Japanese-style peanuts

Japanese-style peanuts, also known as Japanese peanuts or cracker nuts, are a type of snack food made from peanuts that are coated in a wheat flour dough and then fried or deep-fried.[1] They come in a variety of different flavours.

Japanese-style peanuts
Alternative namesJapanese peanuts
Cracker nuts
Cacahuate Japonés
Cacahuates japoneses
Maní Japonés
TypeSnack
Place of origin Mexico
Created byYoshigei Nakatani
Invented1940s

This type of snack is claimed to have originated in Mexico in the 1940s where a Japanese immigrant by the name of Yoshigei Nakatani invented “Japanese peanuts” (widely known in the Spanish-speaking world as cacahuates Japoneses or maní Japonés).[2] The Mexican version’s recipe for the extra-crunchy shell has ingredients such as wheat flour, soy sauce, water, sugar, monosodium glutamate, and citric acid.[3][4]

Similar foods

Chinese Indonesian Frans Go established the Netherlands based company Go & Zoon (later Go-Tan) and began manufacturing borrelnootje, peanuts coated in a crisp starch-based shell, under the name Katjang Shanghai (Shanghai nuts) in the 1950s.[5]

Thai snack food company Mae-Ruay started producing peanuts fried in a wheat flour-based batter flavoured with coconut cream under the brand name Koh-Kae in 1976.[6]

Picard Peanuts is a Canadian company that produces Chip Nuts, a snack food brand consisting of peanuts that have a potato chip coating.[7] Various flavors of potato chips are used in the product's production.[8]

An identical product is sold in Lebanon under the name "krikri".[9]

The term "cracker nuts" was first used by the Philippine brand Nagaraya in 1967.[10]

See also

References
  1. Sietsema, Robert (January 27, 2009). "Strange Snacks of the World -- Cracker Nuts". Village Voice. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  2. "Mexico: Land of the Japanese Peanut", by Eric Nusbaum, Hazlitt, June 25, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2016
  3. "A Basic Introduction to the Salty, Spicy World of Mexican Snacks" by Brooke Porter Katz, Serious Eats. Retrieved July 28, 2016
  4. "Mexican Japanese Peanuts". The Grande Enchilada. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  5. "Go-Tan, wereldmerk met de smaak van oma" [Go-Tan, global brand with grandma's taste] (in Dutch). Chamber of Commerce of the Netherlands. 2020-01-24. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
  6. Jitpleecheep, Pitsinee (2019-03-04). "Climbing the global peanut hierarchy". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
  7. Daniszewski, Hank (January 18, 2015). "Shell shocked". The London Free Press. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  8. "Hygienists offer a gift from the heart". Northumberland Today. February 2, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  9. Kitchen, Leanne (2016-11-02). "Meet the addictive little snack called kri kri". Food. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  10. "Heritage". Nagaraya. Retrieved May 10, 2022. In 1967, Nagaraya Cracker Nuts and Kabaya Pretzels were introduced in the Philippines by a small, enterprising company.
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