View Brazil Nuts In Shell Background. Usually three to four brazil nuts can be collected from the tree. At first it may appear a little bit more oily.

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The brazil nut (bertholletia excelsa) is a south american tree in the family lecythidaceae, and it is also the name of the tree's commercially harvested edible seeds. Brazil nuts are not exactly from brazil but a bolivian fruit nut. However, eating too many brazil nuts can cause selenium toxicity.

Brazil nuts are mainly marketed as shelled nuts.

It belongs to ericales family. It is, therefore, recommended to purchase unshelled. Anuts.com sells them year round!. About 11% of these are brazil nuts, 3% are pine nuts, and 18% are macadamia nuts.