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A rectangular box (such as a box of breakfast cereal) or cylinder (such as a can of nuts) works well to favour the effect, [citation needed] while a container with outwardly slanting walls (such as in a conical or spherical geometry) results in what is known as the reverse Brazil nut effect.
It has a hard, woody shell 8–12 mm (3 ⁄ 8 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) thick, which contains eight to 24 wedge-shaped seeds 4–5 cm (1 + 5 ⁄ 8 –2 in) long (the "Brazil nuts") packed like the segments of an orange, but not limited to one whorl of segments. Up to three whorls can be stacked onto each other, with the polar ends of the segments of the ...
None of these pages have usage notes. But Wiktionary implies that "brazil nut" is the primary term, which somewhat contradicts what we have here. Dictionaries are split on the matter; moreover, the OUP can't seem to make up its mind: Oxford Paperback (2001 edition) has it as "brazil nut", with no mention of any of the other 3 terms.
Brazil nuts have been recalled due to high levels of mold and yeast, according to Food Safety News and the Food and Drug Administration. The ongoing recall was initiated on August 14, 2024.
The seeds have eight to 24 clusters inside a hard shell that resemble the segments of an orange. ... Brazil nuts are a tough nut to crack. The shell is rock hard. And even with a nutcracker, it ...
The National Institutes of Health lists the tolerable upper limit of selenium as 400 micrograms a day for most adults, and Brazil nuts have 544 micrograms of selenium per one-ounce serving, which ...
Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) Native to tropical South America where the nuts are gathered from forest trees growing in the wild. The nuts are hard-shelled seeds borne in a hard, woody capsule. [5] In 2019, global production of Brazil nuts was 78,000 tonnes, most of which were harvested from the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and Bolivia. [9 ...
The tropical rainforest tree Couepia longipendula is known by the common names egg nut, castanha de galinha, and pendula nut. It is found in the Amazon. Its nuts are used as a food source in rural South America, especially in Brazil. The nuts are useful for their oil.