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Nuts and Their Nutritive and Medicinal Value

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This chapter includes medicinal properties of important nuts like Anacardium occidentalis, Juglans regia, Pistacia vera and Prunus amygdalus.

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Khan, A.S. (2017). Nuts and Their Nutritive and Medicinal Value. In: Medicinally Important Trees. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56777-8_11

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