Product Description

Product Description: Pecans. Scientific name: Carya illinoinensis. Family: Juglandaceae

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Nutritional Features:

The pecan nut is an excellent provider of natural fibers and unsaturated oils that the human body requires.
It contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids and a very low percentage of saturated fatty acids.
Also, this type of unsaturated fatty acids, helps maintain low blood pressure and reduce cardiovascular risk.
This nut, U.S. is included in the food pyramid food guide the U.S. Department of Agriculture
By having a low sodium content, is suitable for hypertensive diets.

Varieties: pecans items, entire, large, medium, pecans baby.

Conditioning and storage
Harvested nuts, is necessary to reduce its moisture either by natural drying
or forced hot air produced by a specific equipment.
Drying at room temperature takes about two or three weeks, and if done with equipment ranges from *2 to *0 hours. In both cases the length of the process is related to the moisture content of fruits.
The harvested pecans have a moisture content which can vary between *0% and 8%, depending on whether an early or late harvest. The optimum percentage in the almond is considered by 4%, since if lower than 2.5% almonds become brittle, and contain 5% or more of moisture tend to be spongy and very susceptible to the development of fungi and decay during storage.
To keep all its qualities, after drying nuts should be stored in chambers at 2 º C below zero.
Peel and packaging
There are different equipment for peeling pecans from peelers peelers manual to industrial processing large quantities.
As for the packaging, have initiated studies on the packaging in order to prolong the preservation of walnut, performing tests incorporating nitrogen vacuum-packed in different packaging designs.