Hickory nut

With the exception of peanuts, most of the important nuts from around the world are home on trees, many of them from native seedlings. Among the latter group are the beechnut, Bra2il nut, butternut, chestnut, filbert, hickory nut, pecan, pine nut, and black walnut. The pecan, Knglish walnut, filbert, and almond are the four principal edible tree nuts produced in the United States, where the term Knglish walnut is used synonymously with the Persian or Carpathian walnut (2). 

Some nut trees accumulate mineral elements. Hickory nut is notable as an accumulator of aluminum compounds (30) the ash of its leaves contains up to 37.5% of AI2O2, compared with only 0.032% of aluminum oxide in the ash of the Fnglish walnut s autumn leaves. As an accumulator of rare-earth elements, hickory greatly exceeds all other plants their leaves show up to 2296 ppm of rare earths (scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium). The amounts of rare-earth elements found in parts of the hickory nut are kernels, at 5 ppm shells, at 7 ppm and shucks, at 17 ppm. The kernel of the Bra2d nut contains large amounts of barium in an insoluble form when the nut is eaten, barium dissolves in the hydrochloric acid of the stomach. 

Various methods of home-dyeing cotton and wool materials using natural dyes made from hulls of butternut, hickory nut, pecan, eastern black walnut, and Knglish walnut have been described (149). As far back as during the Civil War, butternut hulls have been used to furnish the yellow dye for uniforms of the Confederate troops. More recent attempts have been made to manufacture yellow and brown dyes from filbert shells on a commercial scale. The hulls are treated with copper sulfate and concentrated nitric acid to produce a yellow color, with ferrous sulfate to produce oHve-green, or with ammonia to produce mby-red (150) (see Dyes AND DYE INTERMEDIATES Dyes, natural). 

The family has two areas of distribution north temperate New World with extension through Central America and western South America to Argentina, and temperate Asia to Java and New Guinea. The trees are valued as limber and cabinet woods and, of course, for walnuts, hickory nuts, and pecans. 

Squirrels accept many types of food bait. These include acorns, hickory nuts, butternuts Juglans cinerea), walnuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, com (maize), and more. Predator odors can be placed near these foods, or applied to them. 

Familiar nuts include acorns, hickory nuts, walnuts, and beechnuts. The word nut is also used mistakenly to refer to the seeds or fruits of some other plants. Thus, pine nuts and peanuts are really seeds and not nuts. 

Grape-Nuts Hazelnuts Hickory nuts Oatmeal bread Oatmeal muffins Olives, dried... 

Aleppo galls Hard, brittle, sphericel bodies, resembtlng hickory nuts produced on the twigs of Quercus Infectoria by Cynlps tlnetorla. 

Chinquapin Coconut Filbert/hazelnut Ginko nut Hickory nut Lichee nut... 

Considering the production of world s most popular tree nuts (Table 1.1), almond ranks first on a global basis with a production of 683,286 MT (shelled), followed by hazelnut (512,200 MT shelled), cashew (394,632 MT shelled), walnut (382,675 MT shelled), and pistachio (445,500 MT unshelled) in 2006-2007. The production of ranaining four tree nuts (Brazil nut, macadamia, pecan, and pine nut) is around 132,918 MT (shelled) in the same year. Moreova, world s chestnut production is 1,164,959 MT (unshelled) in 2006 [2], To the best of our knowledge, Uttle information abont the production of acorn nut, beech nut, betel nut, heartnut, and hickory nut is available. 

Fatty Acid Acorn Nut Almond Beechnut Brazil Nut Cashew Chestnut Coconut Hazelnut Hickory Nut Macadamia Pecan Pine Nut Pistachio Walnut... 

Vitamin A (retinol activity equivalents) M-g 900 700 Tree nuts Hickory nut 28.8 2.0 0.2 0.3... 

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. 

Most nuts of the world come from areas where they are native. Brazil nuts come from wild trees in Brazil. Heart nuts, hickory nuts, butternuts and black walnuts grow in the Eastern United States in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where they are native. English (Persian) walnuts come from their native home of the Himalaya Mountains in northern India. They are also planted and grown in China, the United States, Turkey, Italy and France. Pecans are native to the southern United States west of the Mississippi River. They are grown in the southern United States from coast to coast. 

Tree nuts occupy an important and significant place as a source of fats for foods. While most produce heavy crops on alternate years the industry is possibly the most stable in the world, since walnut, pecan, pine nut, hickory nut, coconut, and palm trees produce continuously for 80 years or more from a single planting. Theoretically, half of the trees of all cultivars produce heavily every year. 

While harvesting oil-containing nuts is becoming more mechanized each year, many of them such as pine nuts, hazel nuts, black walnuts, hickory nuts, pecans, coconuts and others, are harvested by members of the farm family at low cost. This is especially true in the Himalaya Mountains of India, and the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States, as well as the wild coconuts of the Philippines. 

Throughout history, wild nuts and wild animals have evolved together. Squirrels, chipmunks and even snakes have planted nuts in the soil in the fall to be dug up in the spring and eaten. Pecans, hickory nuts and walnuts are favorites. Crows, turkeys and jay birds picked nuts from the hulls and dropped them in another field to be later eaten or germinate. Kangaroo rats harvest native pine nuts into piles and protect them from rain to be used for food later. There is a near symbiotic relation between wild nuts and wild animals. 

FILBERTS (KAZELIVUTSI, whole, shelled FLAXSEED, th.ed HAZELNUTS HICKORY NUTS MACADAMIA NUTS, snelied MIXED HUTS, shelled... 

Soya bean kernels, roasted and toasted Hickory nuts, dried... 

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