How does that old Almond Joy commercial go? Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Yes, that's the one. But wait, what is a tree nut? Sometimes it's not always clear what distinguishes an ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Sometimes nut-bearing trees, such as hickory, walnut, and pecan, drop their ...

Almost every healthy diet, whether you’re trying to lose weight, lower your blood pressure, or improve your fitness, tends to have nuts on the list of approved snacks. Indeed, these savory bites are ...

Share on Pinterest Consuming tree nuts such as macadamia nuts may have cardiovascular benefits. Flavia Morlachetti/Getty Images A new study suggests that tree nuts may reduce certain risk factors for ...

Some consumers prefer to purchase produce grown in certain places, but country of origin labels can be accidentally incorrect or falsified. So, a team assessed whether two kinds of stable isotope ...

Pistachios aren’t actually a botanical nut, but rather the edible seed of the pistachio tree fruit. Despite this, they are still considered to be a nut in cooking and for people with tree nut ...

You might be surprised to find out where pine nuts actually come from—and how they're technically classified The beauty of food trivia is that there’s always something unexpected to discover. For ...

Ian McConachie has spent much of the past 50 years tramping through the rainforest on the hunt for wild macadamia trees. “Finding a wild macadamia is akin to the thrill of finding gold,” he says. Yet ...

Even though they’re all found in the same aisle at the grocery store, there’s one key difference between tree nuts (which include almonds, walnuts, cashews, and pistachios, to name a few) and peanuts.