page_title: List of culinary nuts
section_title: Nut-like angiosperm seeds
hierarchical_section_title: List of culinary nuts / Nut-like angiosperm seeds
caption_attribution_description: English: A Macadamia nut
context_page_description: A culinary nut is a dry, edible fruit or seed that usually, but not always, has a high fat content. Nuts are used in a wide variety of edible roles, including in baking, as snacks, and as flavoring. In addition to botanical nuts, fruits and seeds that have a similar appearance and culinary role are considered to be culinary nuts. Culinary nuts are divided into fruits or seeds in one of four categories:
  True, or botanical nuts: dry, hard-shelled, uncompartmented fruit that do not split on maturity to release seeds;
  Drupes: seed contained within a pit that itself is surrounded by a fleshy fruit;
  Gymnosperm seeds: naked seeds, with no enclosure;
  Angiosperm: seeds surrounded by an enclosure, such as a pod or a fruit.
  Nuts have a rich history as food. For many indigenous peoples of the Americas, a wide variety of nuts, including acorns, American beech, and others, served as a major source of starch and fat over thousands of years. Similarly, a wide variety of nuts have served as food for Indigenous Australians for many centuries. Other culinary nuts, though known from ancient times, have seen dramatic increases in use in modern times. The most striking such example is the peanut.
context_section_description: These culinary nuts are seeds contained within a larger fruit.
  Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) are harvested from an estimated 250,000–400,000 trees per year. Highly valued edible nut used in the confectionery and baking trades. Excellent dietary source of selenium.
  Macadamia (Macadamia spp.) are primarily produced in Hawaii and Australia. Both species are native to Australia. They are a highly valued edible nut. Waste nuts are commonly used to extract an edible oil.
  Macadamia nut (Macadamia tetraphylla) has a rough shell, and is the subject of some commercialization.
  Queensland macadamia nut (Macadamia integrifolia) has a smooth shell, and is the principal commercial macadamia nut.
  Paradise nut (Lecythis usitata), native to the Amazon rain forest, highly regarded by indigenous tribal people.
  Peanut, or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea), originally from South America, has grown from a relatively minor crop to one of the most important commercial nut crops, in part due to the work of George Washington Carver at the beginning of the 20th century.
  Peanut tree (Sterculia quadrifida) or bush peanut, native to Australia. One of the tastiest native nuts. Requires no preparation.
  Soybeans (Glycine max) are used as a nut, in addition to their use as oil seeds.
caption: Macadamia nuts are edible angiosperm seeds.
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