walnuts

1.     full energy, pure omega 3, manganese and copper  

   walnut is one of the Dried Fruits with scientific name juglans regia; the biggest producer in the world is usa, china, and iran.  

2.       kinds of walnuts walnut finds in two kinds:   hickory walnut   normal walnut   also walnut finds in two faces: split walnut and piecemeal walnut walnut also finds in two qualities: oily walnut and low oily walnut.  

3.       iranian name: gerdoo  

4.       keeping way  

for keeping dried walnut in house or apartment, it needs low temperature by paper coverage in the refrigerator or in cold balcony area; also you can use plastic or any kinds of these materials for packaging.  

5.       market and export  

iranian dried walnut total products in the year of 2008 was over 247863 mt, the total surface on the farms was 169607 hectares, the average of the product per hectare was 1467 kg and the average of exporting to overseas was 155850 mt.   

6.       other virtues  

walnut tree is very beautiful tree with over 15 meters height and from old time which is located in the middle east especially in afghanistan, syria and iran. walnut tree is very strong tree. its wood using in many products like furniture, army industry, music instruments.   

with walnut kernel make many cookies and by walnut oil make excellent herbal oil also with root, leaf and shell make some herbal medicine.   

eating walnut is very good for decreasing cholesterol, decreasing ldl cholesterol, increasing hdl cholesterol and power of memory and intelligence, protection of heart problem, anti cancer, anti oxidant, prevention of clot blood also prevention of parkinson and alzheimers disease, also very good for pain body jointed.