Did you know that pecans are actually a fruit? They are drupes, to be more precise, like cherries or peaches, (a fleshy part surrounding a pit). Now you don't eat the peach pit, but the you eat the pecan which is the pit part of this fruit. Say THAT five times fast. Pecans are loaded with vitamins, minerals and have cancer preventing properties. They even reduce bad (LDL) cholesterol. Now that's one fine lookin' drupe!