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Originally Posted by jinman
Like Kyle, I'm interested in knowing the reason green almonds are so popular. Is it their flavor or do they contain more nutrients?
I learn so much about olives and almonds just from your posts. You are my goto expert for sure Rox. Thanks for the updates. . . and I hope your hands heal up soon.
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It is mainly their flavor, they can be quite addicting. We both always stop picking for profit and just pick and stand under the trees and eat them. You can't eat jsut one. they taste like an almond, the nut is firm not soft or mushy at all, they are white and have the same color as a fall almond but they ave a little bit of fresh green taste to them. If you look on the wikipedia page on the right it shows the nutritional value of RAW almonds
Almond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia We use a prunning shears to cut them open. real early in the season yu can crack them open with your teeth but the shells are to hard for that now. I think it is a shame that California is requirig almonds to be pasturized. I don't understand what bacteria they can get. They grow in a shell for goodness sake. If there is a little bird poop on the shell it is not like it is inside the almond. We spay for the wrom but that is duringg flowering not after, there is no nut at that time. It's really a nice natural fruit.
I still can't figure out why our almonds were shipped to Isreal, that is amazing to me, I hope they enjoy them and I hope that big arab family who has their wedding this weekend also are enjoying their 500 kilos of fresh green almonds. I know that if we didnt have almond trees and I saw fresh green almonds, still in thier green husks at an open air market i would buy them. Once you taste them you don't forget the taste and you go back for more. Plus it is kind of like soft shell crab season you only can get green almonds (remember the nut inside is white it is the husk that is green) for about 3 weeks and then they are done for the year. When the shell harden on the crabs that is it the season is done, same thing with green almonds.