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Nuts are defined as a hard-shelled dried fruit or seed having a more or less distinct separable shell or rind and interior kernel or meat; also the kernel or meat thereof.

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Woodroof, J.G. (1994). Nuts as a source of edible oil. In: Kamel, B.S., Kakuda, Y. (eds) Technological Advances in Improved and Alternative Sources of Lipids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2109-9_6

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