Apricot nuts

It is stated that the apricots are eaten fresh or dried, and the seeds are cracked open to yield the almondlike nuts. The dried fruit is sweet and soft, but it does not keep well, though it lasts through the winter. It is also mentioned that the sweet apricot nuts are eaten as is, but the bitter apricot nuts are ground, followed by squeezing out of the highly poisonous apricot oil, which is used for fuel in saucer lamps equipped with a cotton wick. 

Synonyms Apricot kernel oil Apricot nut oil Persic oil Prunus armeniaca Prunus armeniaca oil... 

World production of tree nuts is scattered from the tropics to the Himalaya Mountains and statistics are very scant. Published data refer to nuts for sale and do not include those used in home or in small processing units. Among the nuts that are frequently harvested from native trees and used for specific purposes, but seldom appear in statistics are chinquapins, butternuts, Brazil nuts, heart nuts, hickory nuts, beech nuts, apricot nuts and corozo nuts. 

Fruits (except citrus and melons) Peach, loquat, kiwi, apple, pear, persimmon, nectarine, apricot, cherry, UME, strawberry, grape, ginkgo nut, chestnut, walnuts... 

Deciduous fruit plants that lose their leaves each winter and become dormant include apple, pear, peach, prune, plum, cherry, apricot, fig, grape, bramble, and bush fruits. The deciduous nut crops include principally walnut, almond, pecan, pistachio, and hazelnut (filbert). Nearly 11 million tons (10 million metric tons) of fruit come from deciduous plants grown in 43 states in the United States. In 1998 in California alone, 8.9 million tons (8.1 metric tons) of fruits and nuts were harvested (Olds, 1998). Strawberry and pineapple, though not deciduous fruits, are included in this chapter because of triazine use on fruit crops. The major growing areas for the United States are shown in Table 17.1, and these same crops are grown in many countries throughout the world. 

Filsoof, M., Mehran, M. and Farrohi, F. (1976) Determination and comparison of oil in Iranian almond, apricot and peach nuts. Fette Seif. Anstrichm., 78, 150-151. 

Apricot kernel no crossreactivity with other nuts, legumes, dried vegetables, seeds 1 ppm almond extract spike detected in almond oil, sponge cake, and vegetable stock cube ... 

In order to evaluate the relative contribution of tree nuts and dried figs to the overall AFT exposure, the Committee considered other foods known to contribute to the overall exposure to AFT in humans. Occurrence data and dietary exposures to AFT from these other foods were described. Food commodities included in the mean overall exposure were maize, groundnuts (i.e. peanuts) and other nuts (i.e. walnuts, cashews, chestnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans), dried fruits other than figs (apricots, plums, grapes, dates and others), spices, cocoa and cocoa products (cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder), peanut butter, peanut cream, oilseeds and butter of Karite nut. 

Exfoliating scrubs are used to remove dead surface cells and allo w other products, such as essential oils, to penetrate the skin more effectively. These are principally suspensions of some kind of particles that are intended to do the exfoliating. Examples include ground pumice, microbeads, ground nut shells (such as walnut) and ground fruit seeds (such as apricot). Other additives may include oils, salts and scents. Some environmental and health concerns about the use of microscale polystyrene beads as exfoliating agents have been noted in Section 8.6. 

Lipovol MAC. See Macadamia temifolia nut oil Lipovol O. See Olive (Olea europaea) oil Lipovoi P. See Apricot (Prunus armeniaca) kernel oil... 

The aim of our projeet was to identify and determine the fatty acid content of these oils by means of C H NMR spectroscopy. The C H NMR spectra of locally produced marula, apricot kernel, avocado pear, grape seed, macadamia nut, and mango kernel oils are very similar to those of the well-studied olive oil, we attempted to assign their C H NMR spectra by the method used by Mannina et al. for olive oil (1). Mannina et al aehieved assignment of the C H spectra in part by addition of pure Standard triaeylglyeerols we shall refer to as the standard-addition method. For our locally produced oils we found however, that full assignment of the spectra was... 

McGuire RG (1992) Reporting of objective color measurements. Hortscience 27 224-1225 Mehlenbacher SA, Codu V, Hough LF (1983) Apricots (Prunus). In Moore JN, Ballington JR Jr (eds) Genetic resources of temperate fruit and nut crops. International Society for Horticultural Science, Wageningen, pp 65-66 Minolta Camera Co Ltd (1991) Chroma meters. Japan... 

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