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This is excellent! What about the fat in nuts? vegetable fat, certainly not animal - but can go rancid, yes? what is the best way of storing nuts to prevent their going rancid?
because a brazil nut a day helps keep cancer away, but a friend who is very knowledgeable on cancer and carcinogens assures me that nuts can go rancid because of their high fat content, and when they are rancid, nuts are carcinogenic.
So I have been eating a brazil nut a day, but wondering how to prevent my stockpile of nuts from going off.....anyone know? At the moment I keep them in a sealed jar at room temperature. Should I be refrigerating them?
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just noticed I graduated to "newbie" a couple of posts ago.... you carpal tunnel types must get sick of new people noticing when they move up, but I can tell you, it's a relief not to be considered a "stranger" anymore. 
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No! Freeze them! they are so much easier to shell that way!
and yes, vegetable fats (oils, rather than solid fat for the most part) go rancid much faster! but peanut butter, (commerical) has all the good liquid oily fat, turned into bad solid fat! you really should only eat "organic/natural" peanut butter that has to be stirred and keep cool
to my knowledge not all nuts become carcinogens when rancid (but they sure don't taste as good!) Peanuts most definately do.. but somewhere in an other vaguely food thread, its pointed out peanuts are not nuts, but legumes.
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but they are already shelled....now what?!
And I'm just thinking of brazil nuts, walnut pieces and almonds here - all of which are good for us for different reasons....
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Nihongo wa wakarimasen
I don't understand Japanese. Does anyone expect you to?
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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i keep all my nuts in the freezer, hazelnuts, almonds, pecans and walnuts are a staple in my house (freezer)
i tend to by my brazil nuts in shell, (usually cheaper, and they stay fresher in the shell.) and frozen brazil nuts are reasonable easy to shell, unlike room temp ones -- which defy all nutcrackers known to man!
Anna, what do they call brazil nuts in brazil? i understand the entire crop is collected from wild trees, there are no brazil nut orchards in all of brazil!
(orchard is an other interesting word, for those of you who want to look it up...and side track us!)
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The problem of fats going rancid is a comparativlely simple bit of organic chemistry The carbon atom has a valence of four, meaning it can combine with four other atoms. In fats there are long chains of carbon atoms: -CH2-CH2-CH2- but there can be double bonds between carbon atoms -CH=CH=CH= . The double bonds are readily attacked by oxygen, making relatively short chain fatty acids that smell and taste bad. That we call "rancid".
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what do they call brazil nuts in brazil?
What do they call French underwear in France??
As far as I know French letters (condoms) are called (something) Anglais in France.
Sorry to break the rhythm of this thread!!
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...how to prevent my stockpile of nuts from going off.....anyone know?
Must... resist... temptation...
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well since we haven't established whether to use filberts or hazel nuts, in this country, and while we spell pecan
we are not sure how we say it..(is it pea can or Pa cahn?) and brazil nuts are the nuts we import from brazil..
they might have almost no name (local nuts) or they might have an intesting name..in portugues or a native brazil language.
can you get them in ireland now? they where a total new nut to my parents (who left dublin post WWII) wedge shaped, dark, almost black shell, some what rough, and ridged. and the nut inside is creamy, rich, and mildly flavored. they are larger than a peanut, and do not readily split (like say peanut or cashews or pistashcios.
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