Brief Introduction on
Nutritious 
Health Food of Hickory Nut Series
Hickory nut, "small walnut", is one of three special products of
Lin'an.
Lin'an is located no south of Tianmu Mountain in west Zhejiang. there are 500 Year's
history on hickory nut processing. The plantation area and yield in Lin'an is above 60%
and 70% of the whole country's. It is the highest on nutrition content and the most
delicious in 17 hickory species in the world.
Hickory nut is a natural green food and one of the best tasty nut varieties in China.
Which grows in natural condition of favorable climate, fertile soil and flourishing
vegetation.
The flesh of nut contains 7.8-9.6% proteins, 25% amino acids (7
kinds of amino acids are essential in human), and 22 mineral elements (rich content of
calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and iron that are important to human body). It has
very high value of nutrition, and contributes to moisten the lungs, strengthen kidney
function, reduce blood fat, and prevent coronary heart disease.
The
cooking oil from hickory nut is elegant in smell and it looks like sesame oil. The
function of this kind of oil is good for lungs and nourish yin, which contains less rate
of acid and high rate of iodine. Its oilcan, subsonic acid and unsaturation fattyacid
reach 88%-96% of whole component, which is much more than oil of tea seed and famous olive
oil. Because the oil of hickory nut contains little saturation fatty acid, this cooking
oil is easy to be digested and absorbed. Also, it has a certain function of preventing
coronary heart and anti-cancer.
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