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Nuts in all their splendour

Some lesser known facts about nuts – in a nutshell!

NUTS at Christmas were always a ‘thing’ for my family when I was growing up. Some of my earliest Christmas memories are of having a bowl of hazelnuts on the dining-room table. And my first taste of salted peanuts was at Christmas, at the age of five or six. Unfortunately, my eldest daughter (now grown up and married) has a severe nut allergy, so for most of my adult life we have not routinely had them in the house.

However, families with no such allergy problems can buy nuts of many types, to suit all tastes, and

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