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Brazil Nuts (In Shell)
Brazil Nuts, imported from South America. This is a very nutritious nut with a very hard shell. |
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Raw Brazil Nuts (No Shell)
Another naturally healthy nut, Brazil Nuts are high in protein, calcium, iron, zinc, and are one of the best natural dietary sources of selenium. |
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Roasted Brazil Nuts (Salted)
Another healthy nut high in protein, calcium, iron and zinc. Brazil Nuts roasted to perfection with a sprinkling of salt. |
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Roasted Brazil Nuts (Unsalted)
Size does matter after all! When you are talking about Brazil Nuts that is. The smaller the Brazil Nut kernel the richer and tastier the flavor. These are perfectly sized, are roasted just right and, are packed with protein. |
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Organic Brazil Nuts (Raw, No Shell)
Organic raw brazil nuts out of the shell. The taste is very similar, if not better, to the raw brazil nuts out of the shell, but these are certified organic. These are certified by CCOF.
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Dark Chocolate Covered Brazil Nuts
Brazils roasted, then triple dipped and layered in dark chocolate. They will satisfy any chocolate lover! |
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Milk Chocolate Covered Brazil Nuts
Only the finest brazil nuts smothered in smooth milk chocolate. |
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Brazil nuts, formerly known as cream nuts and Para nuts, are the large extremely hard-shelled seeds of the Brazil nut tree. The Brazil tree is a beautiful giant evergreen indigenous to the Amazon forests of South America. The tree itself is a very long and straight trunk that only will branch in the uppermost part. Brazil nut trees can exceed heights of one hundred fifty feet with a trunk diameter of up to eight feet. The crown of the tree spreads out to a breadth of one hundred feet or more towering over other tropical vegetation. The tree produces large, glossy, deeply ribbed green leaves that can be as long as fifteen inches and as wide as six inches. The end of the branches, produce large pale yellow flowers. The tree produces large spherical fruits that resemble coconuts. They take about fourteen months to mature and are four to six inches in diameter and weigh about four pounds each.
Inside the fragile outer shell of the fruit is a tough and fibrous inner shell about one quarter of an inch thick, which contains about twelve to twenty-four Brazil nuts closely packed together. When the large fruits ripen they fall to the ground. Falling from a height of one hundred fifty feet makes for dangerous collection. Especially on windy and rainy days. One must be careful to make sure no fruits come crashing on their head.
Almost all Brazil nuts come from wild trees scattered throughout the Amazon Basin in a huge area over a million and a quarter square miles. They cover about forty percent of Brazil as well as parts of five other neighboring countries. The trees grow best in deep well drained, alluvial soils on high ground not subject to flooding. They frequently grow in groups of six or more. While most of the Brazil nut production comes from Brazil there is production in Bolivia, Peru, Columbia, the Guianas, and Venezuela.
A mature tree can produce between two hundred and fifty to five hundred pounds of unshelled nuts a year. A good crop yield in one year usually means a lesser crop the following year. Nuts are harvested from an estimated 250,000 to 400,000 trees yearly. However, there are hundreds of thousands of out of sight trees from which nuts are never collected. Consequently, every year thousands of tons of Brazil nuts are not harvested by man, but just fall to the floor of the jungle to be consumed by monkeys or other animals. There have been efforts to establish Brazil nut plantations, but the results have been unsuccessful at best.
The Brail nut has always been an important crop to the Amazon region dating back to the early 1800’s. It wasn’t however, until 1910 that they became a vital crop. The rubber market collapsed in 1910, thus making these nuts the most vital crop of the Amazon region. The first official United States custom entry of Brazil nuts was recorded in 1873. Since then, these have been a very important import for the United States.
Shelling of Brazil nuts is much easier than harder-shelled nuts such as macadamia nuts. The nuts tend to soak in water for twenty-four hours. They are then boiled for five minutes to soften the shell and the shell is easily removed. The good kernels are dried and graded for quality and size. The shells and spoiled nuts are used as fuel for the fires in the plant. Imperfect and broken kernels may be used to make Brazil nut oil.
Today, the very nutritious Brazil nuts are eaten raw, roasted, salted in ice cream and in bakery confections. They remain an important ingredient in shelled nut mixtures. Their high concentration of selenium make these one of the health nuts of choice.
We also offer Wholesale Brazil Nuts.
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| "When our order arrived we could hardly wait to open the brazil nuts, which my husband had been eagerly awaiting. What can I say other than " WOW! " "They are fantastic!" We also ordered the strawberries and blueberries. Had to try them right away. Both were absolutely YUMMY. We plan to be a long time customer." |
| -- Sandra |
| "The Brazil Nuts are delicious, your service & expediency are impeccable. All and all a pleasure to deal with your company & would definitely keep using your services again & recommend you to others.
Thanks!" |
| -- ziva, New York, NY |
| "My husband loves to eat nuts of all kinds for the protein and the kids love nuts to snack on. One of our favorites
is the Brazil nuts, well you can't find them alone in the stores, so we went online and I came across NUTSOnline, what a wonderful place, we not only ordered 5lbs of Brazils, but we also ordered Dark Chocolate covered brazils, oh my goodness!! Well when we ordered the chocolate, it was 3000 degrees in New Jersey and Iowa. They not only emailed me about the chocolate, because it was going to be the weekend they didn't want my chocolate sitting in a delivery warehouse and melting!! The customer service emails were very personable and not only answered right away, when I sent a reply question the items did come when it cooled down a bit, everything was wonderful and tasty!
The prices on items was also very tasty!!!
Oh we also ordered the African Blend Coffee beans!! YUMMY!!!
This is a great family owned business!!" |
| -- LANA, Des Moines, Iowa |
| "The brazil nuts were superb and met every expectation I wanted. Thank you for the prompt service too." |
| -- marge |
| "I am so pleased with the Brazil nuts I received. The shipping was in a timely manners as to my request. This is my first order with Nuts online and will know now that this is a good place to make futher orders. From the Cornhuster state." |
| -- Caroline |
| "I love getting brazil nuts, already shelled, as I can't shell them anymore, and also to get them roasted and salted without any other nuts to dig through! They are delicious!" |
| -- Mary, Boise, ID |
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