List of culinary nuts

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A small bowl of mixed nuts
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An assortment of mixed nuts

A culinary nut is a dry, edible fruit or seed that usually, but not always, has a high fat content. Nuts are used in a wide variety of edible roles, including in baking, as snacks (either roasted or raw), and as flavoring. In addition to botanical nuts, fruits and seeds that have a similar appearance and culinary role are considered to be culinary nuts. [1] Culinary nuts are divided into fruits or seeds in one of four categories:

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Nuts have a rich history as food. For many indigenous peoples of the Americas, a wide variety of nuts, including acorns, American beech, and others, served as a major source of starch and fat over thousands of years. [5] Similarly, a wide variety of nuts have served as food for Indigenous Australians for many centuries. [6] Other culinary nuts, though known from ancient times, have seen dramatic increases in use in modern times. The most striking such example is the peanut. Its usage was popularized by the work of George Washington Carver, who discovered and popularized many applications of the peanut after employing peanut plants for soil amelioration in fields used to grow cotton. [7]

True nuts

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Corylus maxima, native to Europe and Western Asia
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A slice of chestnut cake, prepared using chestnuts
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A kola nut

The following are both culinary and botanical nuts.

Drupe seeds

A drupe is a fleshy fruit surrounding a stone, or pit, containing a seed. Some of these seeds are culinary nuts as well.

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Smoked almonds

Nut-like gymnosperm seeds

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Pine nuts are edible gymnosperm seeds.

A gymnosperm, from the Greek gymnospermos (γυμνόσπερμος), meaning "naked seed", is a seed that does not have an enclosure. The following gymnosperms are culinary nuts. All but the ginkgo nut are from evergreens.

Nut-like angiosperm seeds

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Macadamia nuts are angiosperm seeds.

These culinary nuts are seeds contained within a larger fruit, and are flowering plants.

See also

Notes

  1. Not to be confused with peanuts (groundnuts).

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pine nut</span> Edible seeds of certain species of pines

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<i>Corylus avellana</i> Species of tree (common hazel)

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<i>Corylus colurna</i> Species of tree native to Europe and Asia

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<i>Corylus americana</i> Species of flowering plant

Corylus americana, the American hazelnut or American hazel, is a species of deciduous shrub in the genus Corylus, native to the eastern and central United States and extreme southern parts of eastern and central Canada.

<i>Corylus jacquemontii</i> Species of tree

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<i>Canarium indicum</i> Species of flowering plant

Canarium indicum, known as galip nut, is a mainly dioecious tree native in eastern Melanesia. It is usually found in rainforests, secondary forests, old garden areas, around villages and settlements. It is also used as a shade tree, as a windbreak and in agroforestry. Canarium is important in the world food system as it can be used as a food and timber source, in traditional medicine, intercropping and agroforestry.

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