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nuts and kernels description shipment / storage / risk factors description a nut is a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, where the hard-shelled fruit does not open to release the seed (indehiscent). so, while, in a culinary context, a wide variety of dried seeds are often called nuts, in a botanical
free themselves from the shell, unlike nuts such as hazelnuts, chestnuts , and acorns, which have hard shell walls and originate from a compound ovary. culinary usage of the term is less restrictive, and some nuts as defined in food preparation, like pistachios and brazil nuts , are not nuts in a botanical...
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