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Brazil nut oil
BRAZIL NUT/AMAZONIA NUT
Bertholletia excelsa
Casthana do
Properties
The fruit is a large spherical woody capsule or pod. Inside each fruit pod is 12 to 25 Brazil nuts with their own individual shell. Amazon Nuts are a substantial source of selenium, an important antioxidant. Amazon Oil is extracted from the nuts.
The oil contains mainly palmitic, oleic and linoleic and alpha linolenic acids and small amounts of myristic and stearic acids and phytosterols. Amazon Nut Oil is a clear oil which has a pleasant smell.
It is a wonderful hair conditioner and bring shine, silkiness and softness to hair.
It helps renew dry, lifeless hair and split-ends and allows hair to remain soft and silky. It provides stabilizing detergent properties and helps clean the hair.
For skin, it acts as a moisturizer and provides, provides antioxidant benefits, helps prevents dryness and leaves skin soft, smooth and hydrated.
Blend it with wheat germ oil to increase vitamines E and hemp oil to complete EFA
The tree
The tree is very high and attain the height of 170 feet. The fruit is a large spherical woody capsule or pod. It measures around six inches in diameter and can reach up to 5 pounds. The fruit pods grows at the ends of thick branches, then ripens and falls from the tree from January to June.
Brazil nut trees produce three hundred or more of these fruit pods.
Production comes from wild forest trees and wild harvesting. The trees grow slowly and very little are actually cultivated.
History and Culture
Indigeous Tribes of the rainforest rely on Brazil Nuts as an important and significant staple of their diet. They eat the nuts raw. Nuts are also grated and mixed into gruels, or grated with the thorny stilt roots of Socratea palms into a white mush known as leite de castanha; they stirred it into manioc flour.
Geography
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