once you discover how these unusual nuts actually grow, that strange shape suddenly makes perfect sense.
They Don’t Grow Individually Like You Might Imagine
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Seeing an individual Brazil nut in its shell can make you picture dozens of them hanging separately from tree branches.
That’s not what happens.
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The Brazil nut tree produces an enormous, hard fruit that can resemble a woody coconut.
Inside that fruit are numerous individual Brazil nuts arranged tightly together.
USDA inspection guidance says a Brazil nut fruit
