NUEZ BRAZIL

bertholletia excelsa

NUEZ BRAZIL
bertholletia excelsa

Family: Lecythidaceae Bertholletia.

Ethnic names: Brazilnut, Castanheira do Para, nut Para, Creamnut, Castano of Para, Brazil Chestnut.

Parts Used: Nut, Oil Seed.

The properties / actions: The emollient, Nutritive, Antioxidant, Insecticide.

Phytochemistry: From linolenic acid, alpha, the Antimony, Cerium, Cesium, Europium, Lanthanum, Lutetium, Samarium, Scandium, Selenoprotein, Tantalum, Tungsten, Ytterbium.

For Castañera ago, the name that the Brazilian called this tree, is found in many Amazonian states of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. It is very prevalent in the Brazilian states of Maranhao, Mato Grosso, of Acre, in Para, Rondonia and Amazonas. The tree is huge, often reaching the height of 160 feet or more. The fruit is a capsule or pod woody, spherical and large, measured an average of six inches in diameter and can weigh up to 5 pounds. The pods of the fruit grow at the end of thick branches, then ripen and fall from the tree's June in January. Within each pod fruit is 12 to 25 Brazil nuts with their own individual skeleton.

The trees in the Brazil nut can produce about three hundred or more of these pods of fruit. The marketing and export of the Brazil nut Brazil today from Amazon, which began in 1600 was made by Dutch traders, the second was surpassed only by rubber. Although thousands of tonnes of Brazil nuts are exported each year from Brazil, virtually all of Brazil nut production comes from wild trees of the forest and harvested from virgin land. The trees grow very slowly and very little is actually grown. The United States imports only about 10 tons annually.

The Brazil nuts are a nut from three sides with white meat or meat that is composed of 70 percent fat or oil and 17 percent protein. The oil is extracted from the nuts and is commonly used in Peru and other South American countries produced soap. In the Brazilian Amazon, the bark of the tree is the tea to treat illness and diseases of the liver. For centuries, the indigenous tribes of the jungle have entrusted the Brazil nuts as an important and meaningful to your diet. Thus the importance that has been used as the value of trade, producing a lot of money. The indigenous tribes eat raw nuts, or grated and mixed in with their food. In the Brazilian Amazon, the nuts are grated with the thorny roots of the palms of Socratea in a mush known as white - nut milk, and then mixed with flour (cassava) As this is a valuable source of calories, fat and protein for much of the rural and urban people of Amazon.

Taking a high oil content, with this plant (Brazil nut) are made candles miniatures. The oil is extracted from the nuts and is used by the indigenous and peasant cooking, for the lamps, for soap, food and livestock. The empty seed pods, often called "mono pots, " are used to carry around small fires aumadores to discourage attacks by black flies, and are also used as cups for collectors collect latex rubber trees used and as drinking glasses. The shells they sow the pods have been used in the Brazilian folk medicine to make the tea to treat stomach aches.

Oil from the Brazil Nut is a clear yellowish oil that has an odor and taste nice and sweet. In addition to the protein and fat, Brazil nuts is a substantial source of Selenium, an antioxidant important. A single Brazil nut exceeds the daily recommendation of Selenium. The proteins found in Brazil nuts are very high in acid containing sulfur from amino as Cysteine (8%) and METHIONINE (18%) and are also extremely rich in glutamine, glutamic acid in, and arginine.

Oil from the Brazil nut contains mainly palmitic, oleic acid and LINOLEIC and alphas of linolenic acid and small amounts of myristic and STEARIC and phytosterols. Today, Brazil nut oil is used in soaps, shampoos condition of the hair. It is a wonderful hair conditioner; give shine and softness to the hair and body. To renew aid, lifeless hair and broken into their tips and allows hair to remain soft and silky. Provides stability to the properties of detergent and help clean the hair. You can also find in skin care products such as serving as a wonderful moisturizer for the skin. The oil from the Brazil nut used in creams to keep skin soft and smooth.

References:

Schultes, R. E. "Gifts of the flora of the Amazon World. " Arnoldi 50 (2) 21 - 34 (1990)

Vasquez, M. R. 1990 Useful Plants of Amazonian Peru. Second Giro. Terminated with the USDA National Agricultural Library.

Schultes, R. Raffauf, R. 1990, The Healing Forest, Dioscorides Press.

Smith, Nigel, William J. Plucknett, and Donald Talbot, Jennifer. 1992. Tropical Forests and their crops. Post of Comstock, NY.

The branch, L. C. and da Silva, me. M. 1983. The popular medicine for Altera makes Chao, Para, Brazil. Acta Amazonica 13 (5 / 6) 737 - 797. Manaus, Brazil.

Duke, J. A. 1986a. The directory of Medicinal Plants, Indian and the northeast. Publishing Quarterman, MA.

AMPE, C. et at, "The amino acid sequence of the protein rick sulfur 2S seed from Brazil nut (of Bertholletia HBK) excelsa. " Eur. J. Biochem. 159: 597 - 604 (1986)

The sun, S. And that of. "Properties, BioSynthesis and processing of a protein - rich sulfur in the Brazil nut (of Bertholletia HBK) excelsa. " Eur. J. Biochem. 162: 477 - 483 (1987)

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