"which are not nuts but rather part of the legume family. The cause is similarity in protein structures. Identifiable allergenic proteins are grouped into families: cupins, prolamins, profilin and others. Tree nuts have proteins in these families, as do peanuts and other legumes. Reviews of human trials report that for a confirmed tree nut allergy, up to one third of people will react to more than one type of tree nut. The cross reactivity among almond, walnut, pecan, hazelnut and Brazil nut is stronger than cross reactivity of these toward cashew or pistachio. Strict dietary avoidance of the causal nut(s)"
"those made from the kukui nut in Hawaii. Buckeye candy, made to resemble the tree's nut, is made by dipping a ball of peanut butter fudge in milk chocolate, leaving a circle of the peanut butter exposed. These are a popular treat in Ohio, especially during the Christmas and college football seasons. Aesculus glabra The tree species Aesculus glabra is commonly known as Ohio buckeye, American buckeye, or fetid buckeye. ""A. glabra"" is one of 13–19 species of Aesculus also called horse chestnuts. It is native primarily to the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending"
"associated with and labelled as nougat, while in Sweden and Denmark the original nougat is referred to as ""French nougat"". In Germany, gianduja is traditionally called nougat. Nougat Nougat ( , , or ; ; Azerbaijani: لوکا; Persian: ) is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, and macadamia nuts are common), whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped candied fruit. The consistency of nougat is chewy, and it is used in a variety of candy bars and chocolates. The word ""nougat"" comes from Occitan ""pan nogat"" (), seemingly from Latin ""panis nucatus"""
"Nougat Nougat ( , , or ; ; Azerbaijani: لوکا; Persian: ) is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, and macadamia nuts are common), whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped candied fruit. The consistency of nougat is chewy, and it is used in a variety of candy bars and chocolates. The word ""nougat"" comes from Occitan ""pan nogat"" (), seemingly from Latin ""panis nucatus"" 'nut bread' (the late colloquial Latin adjective ""nucatum"" means 'nutted' or 'nutty'). There are three basic kinds of nougat. The first, and most common, is white nougat"
"himself sitting in a log cabin made of buckeye logs and drinking hard cider, causing Ohio to become known as ""the Buckeye State"". Aesculus The genus Aesculus ( or ), with varieties called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. They are trees and shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with six species native to North America and seven to 13 species native to Eurasia. Also, several hybrids occur. ""Aesculus"" exhibits a classical arcto-Tertiary distribution. Linnaeus named the genus ""Aesculus"" after the Roman name for an edible acorn. Common"
"Brosimum alicastrum Brosimum alicastrum, commonly known as the breadnut or Maya nut, is a tree species in the family Moraceae of flowering plants, whose other genera include figs and mulberries. The plant is known by a range of names in indigenous Mesoamerican and other languages, including: ""ramon, ojoche, ojite, ojushte, ujushte, ujuxte, capomo, mojo, ox, iximche, masica"" in Honduras, ""uje"" in the state of Michoacan Mexico, and ""mojote"" in Jalisco, or also ""chokogou"" in Haitian Creole. Two subspecies are commonly recognized: The tree can grow up to 45 m (130 ft) in height and up to 1.5 m in diameter."
"""acharn"") is related to the Gothic name ""akran"", which had the sense of ""fruit of the unenclosed land"". The word was applied to the most important forest produce, that of the oak. Chaucer spoke of ""achornes of okes"" in the 14th century. By degrees, popular etymology connected the word both with ""corn"" and ""oak-horn"", and the spelling changed accordingly. The current spelling (emerged 15c.-16c.), derives from association with ""ac"" (Old English: ""oak"") + ""corn"". Acorn The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera ""Quercus"" and ""Lithocarpus"", in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains"
"Areca nut The areca nut ( or ) is the fruit of the areca palm (""Areca catechu""), which grows in much of the tropical Pacific (Melanesia and Micronesia), Southeast and South Asia, and parts of east Africa. It is commonly referred to as betel nut so it is easily confused with betel (""Piper betle"") leaves that are often used to wrap it (""paan""). The term ""areca"" originated from the Kannada word ""adike"" (ಅಡಿಕೆ) and dates from the 16th century, when Dutch and Portuguese sailors took the nut from Kerala to Europe. Consumption has many harmful effects on health and is"
"Aesculus The genus Aesculus ( or ), with varieties called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. They are trees and shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with six species native to North America and seven to 13 species native to Eurasia. Also, several hybrids occur. ""Aesculus"" exhibits a classical arcto-Tertiary distribution. Linnaeus named the genus ""Aesculus"" after the Roman name for an edible acorn. Common names for these trees include ""buckeye"" and ""horse chestnut"", though they are not in the same order as chestnut trees. Some are also"
"is a globose or oval nut, long and diameter, enclosed in a four-valved husk, which splits open at maturity. The nut shell is thick and bony in most species, and thin in a few, notably the pecan (""C. illinoinensis""); it is divided into two halves, which split apart when the seed germinates. Beaked hickory (""Annamocarya sinensis"") is a species formerly classified as ""Carya sinensis"", but now adjudged in the monotypic genus ""Annamocarya"". In the APG system, genus ""Carya"" (and the whole family Juglandaceae) has been recently moved to the order Fagales. Hickory is used as a food plant by the"
"processed into cashew cheese or cashew butter. The shell of the cashew seed yields derivatives that can be used in many applications including lubricants, waterproofing, paints, and arms production, starting in World War II. The cashew apple is a light reddish to yellow fruit, whose pulp can be processed into a sweet, astringent fruit drink or distilled into liquor. Its English name derives from the Portuguese name for the fruit of the cashew tree ""caju"" (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈʒu]), which itself is derived from the Tupian word ""acajú"", literally meaning ""nut that produces itself"". The generic name ""Anacardium"" (derived from Greek"
"Customs are very rare. In the United Kingdom, areca nut is readily available in Asian grocery stores and even in shredded forms from the World Food aisles of larger Tesco supermarkets. Possession of betel nut or leaf is banned in the UAE and is a punishable offense. Places such as Guwahati (গুৱাহাটী) in Assam (অসম), Penang in Malaysia, Ko Mak (เกาะหมาก) in Thailand and Fua Mulaku in Maldives have been named after the areca nut. Areca nut The areca nut ( or ) is the fruit of the areca palm (""Areca catechu""), which grows in much of the tropical Pacific"
"distinguished by the larger leaves up to 90 cm long, and round (not oval) nuts. The variety ""cordiformis"", often called the heartnut has heart-shaped nuts; the common name of this variety is the source of the sectional name Cardiocaryon. The butternut (""J. cinerea"") is also native to eastern North America, where it is currently endangered by an introduced disease, butternut canker, caused by the fungus ""Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum"". Its leaves are 40–60 cm long, the fruits are oval, the shell has very tall, very slender ridges, and the kernel is especially high in fat. A study of sequenced nuclear DNA from"
"Nut butter A nut butter is a spreadable foodstuff made by grinding nuts into a paste. The result has a high fat content and can be spread like true butter, but is otherwise unrelated. Nut butters include: The almond, cashew, macadamia, peanut, pecan, pistachio and walnut are not true nuts in a botanical sense. However, because they are considered nuts in a culinary sense, their crushed spreads are called nut butters. Similar spreads can also be made from seeds not considered nuts in a culinary sense: Nut and seed butters have a high content of protein, fiber, and essential fatty"
"in captivity. These large parrots are one of the few animals, aside from humans, capable of cracking the shell and removing the seed. Macadamia Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees indigenous to Australia, and constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae. They are native to north eastern New South Wales and central and south eastern Queensland. Three species of the genus are commercially important for their fruit, the macadamia nut (or simply ""macadamia""), with a total global production of in 2015. Other names include Queensland nut, bush nut, maroochi nut, bauple nut, and Hawaii nut. In Australian"
"betel nut because of as its usage in the country for mastication with betel leaves. In Assam, areca nut is also known as ""tamul"" in the local dialect. Areca Areca is a genus of about 50 species of palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests from China and India, across Southeast Asia to Melanesia. The generic name ""Areca"" is derived from a name used locally on the Malabar Coast of India. The best-known member of the genus is ""A. catechu"", the areca nut palm. Several species of areca nuts, known for their bitter and tangy taste, raw"
"Acorn The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera ""Quercus"" and ""Lithocarpus"", in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a single seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. Acorns are long and broad. Acorns take between 6 and 24 months (depending on the species) to mature; see the list of Quercus species for details of oak classification, in which acorn morphology and phenology are important factors. Acorns play an important role in forest ecology when oaks are the dominant species or are plentiful. The"
"Djucu A Djucu (pronounced joo-ko) is a brown and black nut that comes from the sea. On the Dutch island of Curaçao, it is considered a ""lucky stone"" that washes up on the shores of Curaçao and Venezuela. These ""stones"" get very warm when rubbed. They are said to bring luck and wellness and are common good luck charms in gambling. The Djucu is very popular in Aruba where it is used to make jewellery and is considered essential when gambling in many of Aruba's casinos. In Aruba, many people have their Djucus set in gold and put on a"
"Areca Areca is a genus of about 50 species of palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests from China and India, across Southeast Asia to Melanesia. The generic name ""Areca"" is derived from a name used locally on the Malabar Coast of India. The best-known member of the genus is ""A. catechu"", the areca nut palm. Several species of areca nuts, known for their bitter and tangy taste, raw or dried, are routinely used for chewing, especially in combination with the leaves of betel and dried leaves of tobacco. Areca nut is also popularly referred to as"
"trees and their edible nuts have a large number of common names in their range. These include Pacific almond, canarium nut, pili nut, Java almond, Kenari nut, galip nut, nangai, and ngali. This species listing was sourced from ""The Plant List"" data aggregation website that takes in some inaccurate data. The brief species distribution information was sourced from ""Flora Malesiana"", the ""Flora of China"" (series) and the ""Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants"" information system. Several species have edible nuts, known as galip nut or ""nangae"" (""C. indicum""), pili nut (""C. ovatum""), or simply canarium nut (""C. harveyi"" and ""C. indicum""). ""C."
"Cashew The cashew tree (""Anacardium occidentale"") is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed (nut) and the cashew apple. It can grow as high as , but the dwarf cashew, growing up to , has proved more profitable, with earlier maturity and higher yields. The species is originally native to northeastern Brazil. Portuguese colonists in Brazil began exporting cashew nuts as early as the 1550s. Major production of cashews occurs in Vietnam, Nigeria, India, and Ivory Coast. The cashew nut, often simply called a cashew, is widely consumed. It is eaten on its own, used in recipes, or"
"""Jamaica"""". The 1797 Edition of the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" said that they were used only for ""the making of snuff-boxes out of them""; however, there is a long tradition of using them as amulets for good luck, banishment of ill luck or to ease childbirth. Nickernut Nickernuts or nickar nuts are smooth, shiny seeds from tropical leguminous shrubs, particularly ""Guilandina bonduc"" and ""Guilandina major"", both known by the common name warri tree. ""C. bonduc"" produces gray nickernuts, and ""C. major"" produces yellow. Accordingly, these species are locally known in the Caribbean as ""grey nickers"" and ""yellow nickers"". The word ""nicker"" probably"
"and not be able to withdraw the fistful of nuts whereas an experienced individual will remove the nuts singly. Lecythis pisonis Lecythis pisonis, the cream nut or monkey pot, is a tropical tree in the Brazil nut family Lecythidaceae. It is known in its native tropical America as sapucaia or castanha-de-sapucaia. The fruit is shaped like a cooking pot and contains edible seeds. ""Lecythis pisonis"" is a large, deciduous, dome shaped-tree with a dense leafy crown. It grows to a height of about . The trunk has ascending branches and much fissured, greyish bark. The leaves are pink as they"
"years, in a state of dormancy, for a tree to fall and sunlight to reach it, when it starts growing again. Capuchin monkeys have been reported to open Brazil nuts using a stone as an anvil. Despite their name, the most significant exporter of Brazil nuts is not Brazil but Bolivia, where they are called or . In Brazil, these nuts are called (literally ""chestnuts from Pará""), but Acreans call them instead. Indigenous names include ""juvia"" in the Orinoco area. In Cuba, the nut is alternatively called , literally ""St. James coconut"". In the past in North America, Brazil nuts"
"rich in sulphur amino acids, especially methionine. Lecythis zabucajo Lecythis zabucajo, the sapucaia or paradise nut, is a large nut-producing tree occurring in the Guianas, Suriname, Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras and Brazil, and which distribution range is much the same as that of the greater spear-nosed bat (""Phyllostomus hastatus""). Although not singling out ""Lecythis zabucajo"", Jacques Huber noted in 1909 that fruit bats played the most important role in seed dispersal in Amazonian forests. The quality of its nuts led to the species' being introduced to numerous tropical countries, notably Trinidad, where it has flourished. The nuts are a valuable food"
"common in cultivation because of their distinctive, formal symmetrical growth habit. Several species are economically important for timber production. The edible large seeds of ""A. araucana"", ""A. angustifolia"" and ""A. bidwillii"" — also known as ""Araucaria nuts"", and often called, although improperly, ""pine nuts"" — are eaten as food (particularly among the Mapuche people and Native Australians). In South America ""Araucaria"" nuts or seeds are called ""piñas"", ""pinhas"", ""piñones"" or ""pinhões"", like pine nuts in Europe. Pharmacological reports on genus Araucaria are anti- ulcer, antiviral, neuro-protective, anti-depressant and anti-coagulant. Araucaria Araucaria (; original pronunciation: [a.ɾawˈka. ɾja]) is a genus of"
"Acorn nut An acorn nut, also referred to as crown hex nut, blind nut, cap nut, domed cap nut, or dome nut (UK), is a nut that has a domed end on one side. When used together with a threaded fastener with an external male thread, the domed end encloses the external thread, either to protect the thread or to protect nearby objects from contact with the thread. In addition, the dome gives a more finished appearance. Acorn nuts are usually made of brass, steel, stainless steel (low carbon content) or nylon. They can also be chrome plated and given"
"Nickernut Nickernuts or nickar nuts are smooth, shiny seeds from tropical leguminous shrubs, particularly ""Guilandina bonduc"" and ""Guilandina major"", both known by the common name warri tree. ""C. bonduc"" produces gray nickernuts, and ""C. major"" produces yellow. Accordingly, these species are locally known in the Caribbean as ""grey nickers"" and ""yellow nickers"". The word ""nicker"" probably derives from the Dutch word ""knikker"", meaning clay marble. In the Caribbean, nickernuts are used to play mancala games such as oware. The nickernut is marble-like and good for other uses, such as for jewellery; it is also sometimes ground up to make a"
"being the capital of Lydia, Asia Minor, from where the fruit had spread. The name is cited twice in the King James Version of the Bible. In one instance, Jacob puts peeled twigs in the water troughs to promote healthy offspring of his livestock. Although it may indicate another tree, it indicates the fruit was a local staple food in the early 17th century. These synonyms are or have been in use: ""Fagus Castanea"" (used by Linnaeus in first edition of ""Species Plantarum"", 1753), Sardian nut, Jupiter's nut, husked nut, and Spanish chestnut (U.S.). Chestnut trees are of moderate growth"
"Catechu Catechu ( or ) is an extract of acacia trees used variously as a food additive, astringent, tannin, and dye. It is extracted from several species of ""Acacia"", but especially ""Senegalia catechu"" (""Acacia catechu""), by boiling the wood in water and evaporating the resulting brew. It is also known as cutch, black cutch, cachou, cashoo, khoyer, terra Japonica, or Japan earth, and also katha in Hindi, kaath in Marathi, khoyer in Assamese and Bengali, and kachu in Malay (hence the Latinized ""Acacia catechu"" chosen as the Linnaean taxonomy name of the type-species Acacia plant which provides the extract). As"
"2728 using material sent from the island of Saint Vincent by the Revd. Lansdown Guilding. Caryocar nuciferum Caryocar nuciferum, the butter-nut of Guiana, is also known as pekea-nut, or – like all other species of ""Caryocar"" with edible nuts – ""souari-nut"" or ""sawarri-nut"". It is a fruit tree native to northern Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guyana, Panama, and Venezuela. This colourful tree grows up to 35 m, in humid forests. Flowers are hermaphroditic and in small clusters. The large coconut-sized fruit, weighs about 3 kg, is round or pear-shaped some 10–15 cm in diameter, and greyish-brown in colour. The outer"
"Members of this family produce cashew and pistacia nuts and others produce mango and marula fruits. Some members produce a viscous or adhesive fluid which turns black and is used as a varnish or for tanning and even as a mordant for red dyes. Medicinally the edible nuts from this family have a reputation for being good for the brain. The name ""Anacardium"", originally from the Greek, refers to the nut, core or heart of the fruit, which is outwardly located: ""ana"" means ""upward"" and ""-cardium"" means ""heart""). Anacardiaceae The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family or sumac family,"
"Semecarpus anacardium Semecarpus anacardium (, , Nepali: भलायो, , Tibetan:གོ་བྱེ། ) is a native of India, found in the outer Himalayas to Coromandel Coast. It is closely related to the cashew. It is known as ""Bhallaatak"" () in India and was called ""marking nut"" by Europeans, because it was used by washermen to mark cloth and clothing before washing, as it imparted a water insoluble mark to the cloth. It is also known as ""Gudde Geeru"" () in Kannada and ""bibba"" in Marathi and ""Jeedi Ginja"" in Telugu. It is a deciduous tree. Like the closely related cashew, the fruit"