Oil Cohune-nut

Cohune-nut oil is produced from the nuts of the cohune palm, which flourishes in British Honduras. This oil closely resembles cocoa-nut and palm-nut oils and is stated to saponify readily and yield a soap free from odour. The following figures, obtained in the Laboratory of the Imperial Institute, are recorded in the official Bulletin, 1903, p. 25 —... 

Brazil (Bertholetta excelsa) nut oil Cohune oil clay thinner in drilling muds Tetrapotassium pyrophosphate clay tiles... 

The various palm kernels, such as oil palm or African palm, babassu, and cohune, are a special class of oilseeds, because they are large and are surrounded by a hard, thick shell. As a result of low-cost labor in the producing regions, the large size of the nuts, and the refractory nature of the shells, these nuts are often cracked and the kernels separated by hand. The entire production of Brazilian babassu kernels, amounting in some seasons to over 72.6 Mg (80,000 short tons), once was deshelled by hand. 

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