List of culinary nuts

A culinary nut is a dry, edible fruit or seed that usually, but not always, has a high fat content.

Nuts are used in a wide variety of edible roles, including in baking, as snacks (either roasted or raw), and as flavoring.

For many indigenous peoples of the Americas, a wide variety of nuts, including acorns, American beech, and others, served as a major source of starch and fat over thousands of years.

[5] Similarly, a wide variety of nuts have served as food for Indigenous Australians for many centuries.

A drupe is a fleshy fruit surrounding a stone, or pit, containing a seed.

Mixed nuts in a bowl
A small bowl of mixed nuts
An assortment of mixed nuts
Common hazelnut, as it grows on the tree
Corylus maxima , native to Europe and Western Asia
A slice of chestnut cake , prepared using chestnuts
The segmented kola nut, in the shell and separated
A kola nut
Smoked almonds
Smoked almonds
Pine nuts, in the husk, and separated
Pine nuts are edible gymnosperm seeds.
Macadamia, in the husk
Macadamia nuts are angiosperm seeds.