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  2. Marron glacé - Wikipedia

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    The same process was used in 1980 by José Posada in Ourense, Spain. He was the first businessman to build a factory to produce Spanish marrons glacés using Galician raw chestnuts, [10] [11] which previously were exported to France to produce the confectionery. Posada used the French formula to produce the marrons glacés.

  3. Bouche de Betizac - Wikipedia

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    Bouche de Bétizac is a French chestnut cultivar developed in 1962 by INRA at the station of Malemort-sur-Corrèze near Brive. It is a controlled hybrid between Castanea sativa and Castanea crenata (female Bouche rouge × male Castanea crenata CA04). This variety produces large to very large chestnuts. It has very good flavor for a hybrid.

  4. Sweet chestnut - Wikipedia

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    [38] [39] Sweet chestnut is a good source of starch. [40] [41] The energy value per 100 g (3.5 oz) of C. sativa amounts to 891 kJ (213 kcal) (table). [42] C. sativa is characterized by high moisture content which ranges from 41% to 59%. [43] The chestnut provides a good source of copper, phosphorus, manganese and potassium (nutrition table). [38]

  5. Chestnut - Wikipedia

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    The main regions in France for chestnut production are the départements of Ardèche, with the famous "Châtaigne d'Ardèche" (A.O.C) Archived 2012-02-27 at the Wayback Machine, of the Var (Eastern Provence), of the Cévennes (Gard and Lozère départements) and of the Lyon region. France annually produces over 1,000 metric tons, but still ...

  6. American chestnut - Wikipedia

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    Young tree in natural habitat American chestnut male (pollen) catkins. Castanea dentata is a rapidly-growing, large, deciduous hardwood eudicot tree. [20] A singular specimen manifest in Maine has attained a height of 115 feet (35 m) [21] Pre-blight sources give a maximum height of 100 feet (30 m), and a maximum circumference of 13 feet (4.0 m). [22]

  7. Maraval (chestnut) - Wikipedia

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    Maraval is a named natural chestnut hybrid (synonym CA 74), a cross between a European chestnut (Castanea sativa) and a Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata). INRA bred this variety in 1986 in France Lalevade-d'Ardèche. Maraval produces a big mahogany colored nut from triangular to elliptical triangular shape. The nut keeps well.

  8. Goya Foods - Wikipedia

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    Goya Foods was established in the United States in 1936, in New York City, [7] by Prudencio Unanue Ortiz (1886–1976) from Valle de Mena, Spain. Previously, he had immigrated to Puerto Rico , where he met and married Carolina Casal (1890–1984), also a Spanish immigrant. [ 8 ]

  9. Colossal (chestnut) - Wikipedia

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    The chestnut cultivar Colossal originates from the USA - California Central Valley. It is a Castanea sativa × Castanea crenata hybrid that is cold hardy to −20 °F (−29 °C). The tree can be grown in Zones 4-8, blooms early, and is pollen sterile. Colossal is chestnut blight, root rot and kernel rot susceptible. [1]