Walnuts 'Combat Unhealthy Fats'

BBC ^ | 10-10-2006

[FreeKeys]

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[FreeKeys]

[Salamander]

This takes time and patience.
Rake up the fallen nuts.
Spread them out on a sheet or tarp somewhere out of the weather. [and away from squirrels]
Let the hulls soften and rot off naturally.
Hit them with a high pressure hose to remove as much as of the hulls as you can.
Let them dry out again.
Put them in a sealed container such as a large galvanized trash can and either shake or roll the whole thing until as much as possible of the leftover dried hull bits are rattled off of the nuts.
Take 'em out and crack 'em.....:)

[or you could run over them with somebody else's car]....LOL!

[aft_lizard]

Are they black walnuts? We used to have a black walnut tree and them buggers were hard to open with anything less than a hammer.

[aft_lizard]

Heres a cool little site detailing everything about do it yourself walnut harvesting.

http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/BlackWalnut.html

[queenkathy]

you could do what we do...We buy them at a grocery store!

[PeaceBeWithYou]

With 58% polyunsaturated oil(Long chain fatty acid) content I wouldn't call walnut healthy, and it's 12% Omega 3 content isn't as good as other sources.(Too much polyunsaturated oil content can lead to cancer, dibetes, arthritis, and a whole host of other degenerative diseases.)

Organic, unrefined, coconut oil(Medium chain fatty acid) would be my choice for the most healthy, and beneficial.(And before you yell, "but coconut is a saturated fat", remember it has zero cholesterol. Also saturated fat isn't stored as fat, it is burned for fuel without needing insulin to enter the cell - make a note of that if you're diabetic.)

There are many other benefits to coconut oil, search them out, you'll be glad you did.

That's my 2 cents worth.;-)

[leda]

i love walnuts. otoh, patton is allergic to them. he paid the
kids a penny a piece to collect up the walnuts out of our yard
one year. it cost him a fortune! now they just plow over them
with the mower.

[JRios1968]

This might work...

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[djf]

I tried to find coconut oil at the Albertsons yesterday.

Fat chance.

They had Almond oil, Walnut oil, Canola oil, Peanut oil, Olive oil (I got a small bottle of extra virgin cold pressed OI, cost 12 bux for like 12 ounces), Corn oil, Safflower oil, and a couple others.

No flax oil or coconut oil, though.

[metmom]

Hire a squirrel?

[metmom]

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[HungarianGypsy]

I found coconut oil at the Wal-Mart grocery stores. Sunflower and Safflower are also good oils.

[metmom]

We have several black walnut trees on our property. Mowing the lawn is a real challenge in the fall. It's not hitting the nuts with the lawnmower (which I don't) it's trying to mow under the trees fast enough to avoid gettling kloncked on the head with one. I hate the sound of them landing around me, cause I know it's just a matter to time....

[djf]

Thanks. Maybe I'll check WM tomorrow.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Sunflower and Safflower are also good oils.

Ugh, I disagree.

Sunflower 11%saturated/20%monosaturated/69%polyunsaturated

Safflower 10%saturated/13%monosaturated/77%polyunsaturated- (and it's hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated to boot)

Both worse than corn-13%/25%/62% and soy- 15%/24%/61%

High polyunsaturated oil content suppresses the immune system leaving you vulnerable to cancer, and most other diseases. Remember the first organ transplants? The suppressant used was polyunsaturated oil.

BTW, the ratios on coconut oil - 92%/6%/2%

Good info here

Also, djf, make sure you get the organic as opposed to the hydrogenated/partially hydrogenated coconut oil which is not good.