It is a trade name for Japanese peanuts or Japanese peanuts, although the brand is Maní Moto, and this spaceless version would be a generic voice, an Americanism for its Mexican origin. It was created in the 1940s by entrepreneur Yoshihei Nakatani Moriguchi with the recipe for seeds coated with a dough of cooked soybean meal (mamekashi) for peanuts, and added to the name the suffix 20803; (-moto) common in surnames to indicate a family origin in Japan.
