walnut

• Walnut is a more widely used product than you would at first think. Apart from the obvious nuts, the wood and oil are also used.

• The oil is used in cooking and as a varnish.• The wood is used from items such as

instruments to furniture and even gun-stocks.

• The Nut is used for many different things ranging from polishing to cooking.

• Walnut shell is in great demand for grit blasting and barrel polishing.

• Dyes are made from the oil for carpets in India to delicate clothing in China and even basket weaving in America.

• Used in sweet and savoury dishes such as walnut cake and Salsa di Noce ( a Italian pasta sauce) 

• Walnuts have also been proven by scientists at Yale to reduce cholesterol levels. (www.walnuts.org)

(Dyed)

• It is mainly polished before use to bring out the colour.

• It is a very strong and hard wearing wood, explaining it’s use in table tops and gun stocks widely.

• The patterns in the wood or ‘ the grain’ is very elegant and because of this is used instruments.

• The most valuable piece of the wood is the burl which is under the ground, it has the best grain.

• The main source of the wood is Calafornia

• CAlafornia is shown on this map.

• It is the main growing distric for Walnut wood

• The oil is completely edible and is often used on salads.

• It has a nutty quality which can be taken away by heating at high temperatures.

• It is mostly produced in France.• Used a lot by renaissance painters as a

oil paint thinner.• Favoured by wood-workers coating

wooden items that will make contact with food.

• As is shown above in 2000/01 the U.S. Walnut industry had to increase the price by 37%.

• It is thought the price rise was due to the price of exporting the product.

• There are many species of walnut tree, only the English Walnut (Juglans nigra) grows in England.

• The climate in England is not sufficiently warm enough to grow in large plantations.

• Good quality walnut oil can only be made from French walnut trees.

• Not enough walnut could be grown in England to meet the entire English demand.

• The trees are grown in groves so no deforestation takes place (voiced opinions by Scierie-Forest Walnut exploiters France).

• The Gun trade is enhanced by readily available amounts of walnut for the gun stocks.

• Gallons of fuel is being used to ship unnecessary amounts of walnut around the world to simply be wasted. (As protested by Christopher Kendall from the university of north Carolina)

• Walnuts are not essential to our survival.

• Less squirrels would be shot in plantations for stealing nuts.

www.scierie-forest.com- Information and Images

wikipedia.org- Informationwww.woodnut.com- Information and Images

www.graftedwalnuts.co.uk- Information