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Understanding the Difference Between Grains, Nuts, and Seeds
Botanically, a nut is a fruit with a hard, woody shell and an edible seed inside, such as acorns and chestnuts. However, in ...
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What Are Nuts?
Botanically speaking, nuts are a composite of seed and dry fruit found inside of a hard outer shell. For culinary purposes, what are considered "nuts" share the same characteristics: oily ...
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The ingredient with 20 percent fewer calories than you thought
A nut is the edible seed or fruit of a plant, usually surrounded by a hard or brittle shell. Rather like an egg is to a new chick, a nut helps a new plant to grow thanks to its power-pack of ...
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Chestnut recipes
Keep warm with a tea towel while you peel away the hard outer shell and the softer inner brown skin (warm nuts peel more easily than cold ones). For a faster method, slit the rounded shell of the ...