ALMONDS
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Pink almond blossoms
Image courtesy of LoggaWiggler
at Pixabay |
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Mature almond fruit
Image courtesy of dfespi48 at Pixabay |
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Almond shells
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Hello, Everyone!
Almonds are one of my favorite nuts (seeds) and one of the healthiest of seeds in existence. Today, I refreshed my knowledge of details about the almond. The following are a few of the highlights that I read about this wonderful food, today.
- Almonds are actually seeds of the almond tree's fruit.
- The almond fruit tree is 'related' to the apricot tree, peach tree and cherry tree with their pit-like seeds.
- Almonds are, either:
- sweet almonds (prunus amygdalu var. dulcis), or
- bitter almonds (prunus amygdalu var. amara)
- Aaron's rod blossomed and generated almonds, as reported in Numbers, (a book in the Holy Bible) around 1400 BC
- Almond trees blossom in the colors pink or white
- Around 1900 AD, the almond industry of California (USA) was established
