The last couple of years have seemed to have a distinct lack of Brazil Nuts. Can’t find any anywhere. Plenty of hazlenuts, walnuts and pecans etc but no Brazils.

Anyone got any ideas why?

I ate all the chocolate coated ones… no idea where all the other ones went….
squirrels?

Sounds like the beginning of a cracker joke to me.

Q. Why can’t I find Brazil Nuts anywhere?
A.
Someone tell me the punchline!

I thought I’d try to help buy finding instructions on growing your own brazil nuts, but the instructions I found had the following as the first step…

Preserve an area of rainforest where Brazil nut trees can sustain. If the area has been decimated, allow several years for the ecosystem to rebalance.

So it depends on your budget really.

Get Argentinian nuts instead. Much tastier.

BRAZILLLLLLLLL!

I think they mostly come from wild trees. Probably all been cut down by now 🙁

I think they mostly come from wild trees. Probably all been cut down by now

Yup…the site i found said that commercially available brazil nuts come from the wild.

Doesn’t it have something to do with the shell’s being poisonous? Thought i’d read that a few years ago..

EDIT: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080328153313AAB6t9U

Yeah, wasn’t there an EU ruling or something as the shells are poisonous so now you can only get shelled ones…..?? My favourites – there’s something IMMENSELY satisfying about shelling a whole brazil nut!!

Sainsbury’s near me are doing packets with all the healthfood nuts/dried fruit by the front of the store where all the sandwiches are stored.

A local healthfood shop sells them, shelled though. Dead nice and good for you (i think). I had 8 today!

must agree that our two local super markets have stopped doing seperate nuts, just bags of mixed. hugely annoying.

mid you if you struggle with brazil’s try finding decent, the ones with ‘california’ stamped on them, californian walnuts. non in west cornwall at all.