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fruit is a large spherical woody capsule or pod. Inside
each fruit pod is 12 to 25 Brazil nuts with their own individual
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The oil contains mainly
palmitic, oleic and linoleic and alpha linolenic acids and small
amounts of myristic and stearic acids and phytosterols.
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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
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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.
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Oil is extracted from the nuts
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Nuts are a substantial source of selenium, an important antioxidant.
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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
Castanha
do Para, the Brazilian name given to this nut, is found in Amazonia
(Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Frenc Guyane, Guyana, Surinam
and Ecuador).
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