Salted Peeled Baru Nuts | Wild Harvested
Full Description ✧
Salted Baru Nuts
Our golden Baru nuts have been roasted, peeled and then salted to perfection. The sea salt has been carefully sourced from Mossoró in North East Brazil
Baru nuts are the seeds of the giant Baruzeiro trees, native to the endangered Cerrado savannah in Brazil. They're deliciously crunchy - similar in taste to peanuts, but creamy like almonds
Not technically a nut, they are an ancient legume. They do not bear the allergenic characteristics of some legumes such as peanuts, soybeans and peas. Also unrelated to tree nuts. The misnomer happened when "castanha" was first translated from Portuguese to English as nut!
The Cerrado is a vast tropical savannah in Brazil, and is one of the most threatened and over-exploited habitats. Home to an extraordinarily biodiverse ecosystem, the Baruzeiro trees are guardian trees - providing shelter, stablising soil and preventing flooding. Now they are giving local communities a positive economic alternative to soy production, logging and the burning of vegetation for charcoal
Baruzeiro trees are native to the Cerrado and thrive without chemicals and artificial irrigation. They serve the Cerrado, taking nothing from it
Collected by hand, local co-ops are working together to preserve their home and uphold cultural traditions. The Baru Nut story is beautiful and full of hope. The nuts are incredibly healthy (better for you than any other nut) and the trees grow wild across the Cerrado. Instead of continuing to cut the trees down for their high-quality wood, people are now protecting them and replanting
Baru Nut Benefits
Considered the most nutritious nut in the world!
Ingredients ✧
Wild Baru Nuts
Roasted for goodness: Roasting deactivates the trypsin inhibitor enzyme, allowing the body to digest the Baru nut's high protein content
Baru Nut Sourcing & Process: Our wild-harvested baru nuts are collected by hand from the Brazilian Cerrado. This remote area, is far away from industry and pollution
No added fillers, bulking agents or preservatives
Product carefully sourced from Brazil
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Directions ✧
Ways to enjoy Baru Nuts:
Serving suggestion: The salted variety is a deliciously healthy snack. Surprise friends with the nut they've probably never heard of!
Our naked baru nuts (unsalted) can be used to make your own baru nut butter. Experiment making baru nut milk as an alternative to heavily processed store-bought almond or oat milks
As these become more popular in the West, Baru Nut reviews and testimonials below can be helpful for further information on how Baru nuts are used medicinally in Brazil as we are limited in what we can share on how this extraordinary food may help