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The harvested nuts in USA are washed, further cleaned and then dried to 8-10% moisture content for marketing or processing. Production and consumption/utilization Nuts are sold to consumers either in-shell or shelled as kernels for salted kernels or use in the food trade, especially in confectionery for nut chocolate; kernels may be ground to a flour and baked as filbert bread, which is reputed to be delicious.

These trees have been attacked by a disease called chestnut blight caused by a fungus. If we look at nuts in this way, they come out quite well. The chinquapin belongs to the same genus. Several trees of the Juglandaceae are of commercial importance for the edible nuts and for lumber. Species of these and other genera (e. They are borne in dense clusters, or inflorescences, called spikes or catkins; the clusters characteristically have bracts that are more conspicuous than the flowers themselves. Other American and Old World walnuts are also used and esteemed locally for timber, dyes, and food. A few of these trees here and there in the Iberian Peninsula have been propagated by grafting, like other orchard trees, and the acorns are grown and used as a crop. The blight spread about fifty miles south each year, killing every chestnut in its path.

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