Chocolate cake with hazelnutsHazelnuts are used in confectionery to make some pr
alines, in chocolate for some chocolate truffles, and in hazelnut paste products . In Austria (especially Vienna), hazelnut paste is an ingredient in the making of tortes (such as Viennese hazelnut torte) which are famous there. In Kiev cake , hazelnut flour is used to flavor its meringue body, and crushed hazelnuts are sprinkled over its sides. Dacquoise, a French dessert cake, often contains a lay er of hazelnut meringue. Hazelnut is a primary ingredient of the vodka-based liq ueur frangelico. Hazelnuts are used abundantly in Turkish cuisine especially on the Pontic coast of Anatolia. In Georgian cuisine, traditional snack churchkhela and sauce satsivi are often cooked with hazelnuts (along with walnuts).[11] Hazelnut-flavoured coffee seems (to many users) to be slightly sweetened and les s acidic, though the nut is low in natural saccharides.[citation needed] The rea son for such perception is not yet understood. Over 2,000 tonnes are imported annually into Australia, mostly to supply the dem and from the Cadbury-Schweppes company. Hazelnut oil pressed from hazelnuts is s trongly flavoured and used as a cooking oil. The nuts may be eaten when fresh or when dried: the taste is distinctly differen t.[12] Health benefits[edit]Hazelnuts have a significant place among the types of dried nuts in terms of nutrition and health because of the composition of fats (prima rily oleic acid), protein, carbohydrates, vitamins (vitamin E), minerals, dietar y fibre, phytosterol (beta-sitosterol), and antioxidant phenolics[13] such as fl avan-3-ols.[14] See also[edit]Filbertone, the principal flavor compound of hazelnuts List of hazelnut diseases The Hazel-nut Child References[edit]1.^ Jump up to: a b World Hazelnut Situation and Outlook, USDA 2 004 2.^ Jump up to: a b "Mesolithic food industry on Colonsay" Dec 1995) British Arc haeology. No. 5. Retrieved 25 May 2008. 3.^ Jump up to: a b Moffat, Alistair (2005) Before Scotland: The Story of Scotla nd Before History. London. Thames & Hudson. p. 912. 4.Jump up ^ http://faostat.fao.org/site/339/default.aspx 5.Jump up ^ Trees for Life Hazel species profile 6.^ Jump up to: a b Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Mac millan ISBN 0-333-47494-5. 7.Jump up ^ Flora of NW Europe: Corylus avellana 8.Jump up ^ "No Ordinary Nut", Deborah Madison, Los Angeles Times, Jan 31, 2001 9.Jump up ^ "Neat and Sweet, But an Odd Nut", Melissa Clark, New York Times, Jan 16, 2002 10.Jump up ^ Findik 11.Jump up ^ Karadeniz Mutfagi (tr) 12.Jump up ^ http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/sep/08/features.recipe s 13.Jump up ^ Nutritional value of hazelnuts 14.Jump up ^ Comparative Flavan-3-ol Profile and Antioxidant Capacity of Roasted Peanut, Hazelnut, and Almond Skins. Maria Monagas, Ignacio Garrido, Rosa Lebron -Aguilar, M. Carmen Gomez-Cordovs, Anna Rybarczyk, Ryszard Amarowicz and Begoa Bar tolom, J. Agric. Food Chem. 2009, 57, 1059010599, doi:10.1021/jf901391a External links[edit] Media related to Corylus avellana at Wikimedia Commons The dictionary definition of hazelnut at Wiktionary [hide]v t eEdible fats and oils
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Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hazelnut&oldid=6168735 34" Categories: CorylusEdible nuts and seedsHidden categories: Articles needing addi tional references from October 2007All articles needing additional referencesAll articles with unsourced statementsArticles with unsourced statements from July 2007 Navigation menuPersonal tools Create accountLog inNamespaces ArticleTalkVariantsViews ReadEditView historyMore Search Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia Wikimedia Shop InteractionHelp About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact page ToolsWhat links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Wikidata item Cite this page Print/exportCreate a book Download as PDF Printable version LanguagesAfrikaans ??????? Aragons Asturianu Catal Dansk Deutsch Din bizaad Eesti Espaol Esperanto Euskara ????? Franais Galego ??? Bahasa Indonesia Italiano ????? Kreyl ayisyen Ladino Ltzebuergesch ??? Portugus Sicilianu Simple English ?????????? ?? Edit linksThis page was last modified on 14 July 2014 at 05:37. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; add itional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and P rivacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, I nc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersContact WikipediaDevelopersMobile view Comparative Flavan-3-ol Profile and Antioxidant Capacity of Roasted Peanut, Haz elnut, and Almond Skins. Maria Monagas, Ignacio Garrido, Rosa Lebron-Aguilar, M. Carmen Gomez-Cordovs, Anna Rybarczyk, Ryszard Amarowicz and Begoa Bartolom, J. Agr ic. Food Chem. 2009, 57, 1059010599, doi:10.1021/jf901391a