Why are flaked almonds so unhealthy?

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  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member
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    This thread is nuts.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe

    In botany, a drupe is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit, stone, or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside... the definitive characteristic of a drupe is that the hard, lignified stone (or pit) is derived from the ovary wall of the flower.

    Other fleshy fruits may have a stony enclosure that comes from the seed coat surrounding the seed, but such fruits are not drupes.
    Some flowering plants that produce drupes are coffee, jujube, mango, olive, most palms (including date, coconut and oil palms), pistachio, white sapote, and all members of the genus Prunus, including the almond (in which the mesocarp is somewhat leathery), apricot, cherry, damson, nectarine, peach, and plum.

    What the hell is indehiscent???

    You know the rules: if you can't pronounce it or don't know what it means, don't eat it.

    So no almonds for you.

    Too bad, because they're a phenomenal source of protein...

    ...and soooo filling.
  • RllyGudTweetr
    RllyGudTweetr Posts: 2,019 Member
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe

    In botany, a drupe is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit, stone, or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside... the definitive characteristic of a drupe is that the hard, lignified stone (or pit) is derived from the ovary wall of the flower.

    Other fleshy fruits may have a stony enclosure that comes from the seed coat surrounding the seed, but such fruits are not drupes.
    Some flowering plants that produce drupes are coffee, jujube, mango, olive, most palms (including date, coconut and oil palms), pistachio, white sapote, and all members of the genus Prunus, including the almond (in which the mesocarp is somewhat leathery), apricot, cherry, damson, nectarine, peach, and plum.

    What the hell is indehiscent???
    in·de·his·cent adj. Botany. Not splitting open at maturity: indehiscent fruit. in′de·his′cence

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