Walnuts have amazing health benefits, which contains a lot of nutrients.
Walnuts improve cardiovascular function and have wonderful anti-inflammatory properties. Especially useful for the body walnut oil: it is very rich in unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic, and oleic, also contains a rich amount of assorted proteins.
Walnuts are a great source of fiber and protein, the content of proteins almost approach to meat, fish and some dairy products. The essential amino acide, l-argnine, helps blood vessels relax and remain smooth, improving the elasticity of the blood vessel. Walnuts have high amounts of anti-oxidants in them that help in keeping your immune system healthy and prevent the onset of disease, protect against heart disease and stroke. Walnuts contain many minerals, such as potassium, calcium, phosphorus and iron, as well as trace elements that are part of various enzymes, which affect the metabolic processes, and are involved in hematopoiesis. According to the content of iodine and zinc walnuts surpass many other herbal products.
This is why walnuts are useful to everyone - children and adults, healthy and sick.
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1.Light halves(LH)
2.Light quarters(LQ)
3.Light pieces(LP)
4.Light amber halves(LAH)
5.Light amber quarters(LAQ)
6.Light amber pieces(LAP)
7.Amber pieces(AP)
8.Mixed crumbs(MCR)
9.Extra Lignt halves(ELH) |
| Moisture |
Max 5% |
| Admixture |
max 0.1% |
| Imperfect |
max 5%. |
| Packing |
In Vacuun poly bags of 12.5kilos net with cartons.
In 6.25 x 2 Aluminum Foil vacuum bag with cartons.
10/20'fcl. |
Walnut inshell
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Walnut in shell: 25mm-28mm; 28mm-30mm; 30mm-32mm; 32mm-34mm;
34mm-36mm; Above 36mm Normal shape and color |
| Moisture |
max 6.5% |
| Admixture |
0% |
| Imperfect |
max 10% |
| Packing |
In single sound gunny bags or PP woven bags of 25 kilos net each.
8MT/20'fc |
Types of Walnut
There exist at least 30 varieties of walnut cultivars. The three popular verities grown for the commercial purpose are the English or Persian walnut (Juglans regia), the Black walnut (Juglans nigra), and the White or butternut walnut (Juglans cinerea). Commercially, the nuts are being cultivated in the United States of America, Romania, France, Turkey, and China.
Top 10 Walnut Producing Countries*
Rank Country Production (Tonnes)
1 China 1,700,000
2 Iran 450,000
3 United States 425,820
4 Turkey 194,298
5 Mexico 110,605
6 Ukraine 96,900
7 India 40,000
8 Chile 38,000
9 France 36,425
10 Romania 30,546
*"Production of Walnut with shell by countries". UN Food & Agriculture Organization, 2012.
Characteristics of some of the popular walnut cultivars grown in California (USA):
Almost all of the walnuts, almonds, pistachios, pecans, etc. (90% of nuts) in the United States are grown in California. Walnut trees are covering 82 hectares; this is 15% of the area of ??all fruit crops of the US. Most common of the crop varieties are: Payne, Eureka, Hartley, Franquette, Serr, Asley, Sunland, Chico, Vina, Tehamo, Amigo, Tulare, Pedro, Howard, Chandler, Cisco.
Eureka
Eureka, a large walnut, elongated. With good shell seal, smooth surface. Plump kernels are light and make up about 50% of the total weight, excellent quality, produces a high percentage of light kernels. Eureka is one of the best grades of Californian walnuts. Harvest early to mid. has a high yield potential due to high lateral bud fruitfulness.
Chandler Walnut
Chandler walnut as a heavy-bearing, mid late-season walnut with lateral bud fruitfulness is about of 85-90%.
Chandler’s nuts are large (13-15 g.), shell is oval, smooth, light color, thin shell, and becomes stronger in older trees. Kernel has extra pearly color (expect a 90% or better light color grade), easy removal in halves, not well filled.
Cisco Walnut
Cisco is an extremely late leafing, laterally fruitful walnut. Due to its moderate yield, Cisco is mainly used as a pollenizer for Chandler and Howard walnuts.
The Cisco nut and kernel are similar to Franquette, but slightly larger. Shell is good seal and strength; kernels color can be variable, generally medium light.
Forde Walnut
The new Forde walnut is precocious with a mid-season harvest date. Forde produces immense nuts that are oval to round, medium-textured with a good seal and a strong yet easily removed shell. The remarkably large (9 gram), plump kernels are light and make up about 54% of the total weight.
Forde is intermediate in vigor between Sexton and Gillet and shows low susceptibility to walnut blight.
Franquette Walnut
The Franquette walnut is a late-leafing variety with low susceptibility to spring frost damage, walnut blight and codling moth. Franquette gives a fair production of well-sealed, thin-shelled quality nuts with light kernels. Shell has medium-thin shell with good seal; kernel has good quality, light and extra light color.
Gillet Walnut
Like Forde and Sexton, Gillet is a new cultivar that features high yields on young trees and a mid-season harvest date (10 days before Chandler). With a low blight score and 100% lateral fruitfulness, Gillet walnut is an excellent early-leafing selection.
Gillet nuts are somewhat more oblong than Sexton, but are similar with good seals and shell strength. The light-colored Gillet kernels are easy to remove and heavy (8.2 grams).
Hartley Walnut
The Hartley walnut, exhibited in 1915 at the San Francisco World's Fair, won blue-ribbon recognition as a premium in-shell nut. Today, Hartley is the standard for mid late-season walnut harvest with good quality nut (14-15 g.).
The Hartley nut is fairly large with a pointed tip. Thin-shelled, well-sealed and easy to crack, Hartley produces a high percentage of light kernels (76%).
Howard Walnut
Howard is a laterally fruitful, mid-season walnut with heavy bearing potential.
The nut is large, round, smooth and well-sealed with a very high percentage of light kernels (96%); kernels are light color, but darken in storage.
Livermore Red Walnut
The vivid red kernels of the medium-sized Livermore Red walnut are highly desired in niche and farmers' markets. The tree is laterally fruitful and has a late harvest with moderate to heavy yield.
Payne Walnut
Harvested early in the season, the Payne walnut is medium to small in size with a very good shell seal. Payne has a high yield potential due to high lateral bud fruitfulness (80 to 90%) and cultivar is resistant to pests and diseases.
Serr Walnut
Serr is the preferred walnut variety for marginal soils and hot climates. With an early to mid-season harvest, Serr is large in size with a fair-to-good shell seal. Serr kernel crack out is 59% with an average kernel size over 7 grams.
Sexton Walnut
Sexton is a new walnut variety characterized by very high yields on young trees and a mid-season harvest time. The Sexton nuts are relatively smooth and round with good seals and good strength. The large (8 gram) kernels are light colored, easy to remove from the shell and make up more than 50% of the nut weight.
Sunland Walnut
Sunland, an early-leafing, late-maturing walnut, offers heavy crops of particularly huge nuts with plump kernels averaging 10.4 grams. Like many early-leafing California cultivars, Sunland is sensitive to walnut blight, especially in humid or rainy areas. The Sunland kernel is light with a very good crack out (58%).
Tulare Walnut
Tulare is a large, nearly round, well-sealed walnut with very high quality kernels. Tulare crack out is about 53% and average kernel weight is 7.5 grams with 86% light.
Vina Walnut
Vina walnut, with an early-to-midseason harvest and high lateral fruitfulness, bears high-quality, medium-sized pointed nuts with well-sealed shells, though the percentage of light-colored kernels is relatively low.
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