If you love nuts, you for certain have to be able to store them. Non-compliance with rules of storage of food, in this case nuts, leads to their premature damage. Therefore pay to this question more attention.
Instruction
1. Buying nuts, surely you inquire: from where nuts sort, what grade, what harvest of year. Tonkoskorlupny, Rodina, the Ideal call the most known grades of walnuts Gissar, Uzbek early. So, for example, it is necessary to be interested in year of harvest. In nuts there are a lot of fats which at free access of air and high temperature give to kernels of walnuts (and not only walnut) rancid taste.
2. It is better to buy nuts not in the markets, in bulk, and in shops, in industrial packings. The main criteria of freshness of nuts are brown or golden coloring of kernel and also pleasant aroma.
3. Now about storage. Nuts to store long time not easy. They are stored in sacks, boxes or packages only until the end of winter, not longer. Them it is better to store more long period of time in glass, clay or tin tanks with densely closed covers.
4. Too it is possible to store nuts in the deep freeze, and long enough. It is desirable to hold them in hermetic container there. Take from capacity week portion of nuts as required. In such conditions nuts will keep the antioxidant properties in the best way.
5. Heat and high humidity – ideal conditions for reproduction of mold. Avoid them. And it is better not large supplies of nuts, and to buy exactly so much how many has to be enough for week. If you see mold on nutshell or kernels, do not try to wash away or clean off it. It is better to throw out such nuts.
6. To such extremes as washing of the spoiled nuts with soap, boiling or evaporation, it is not necessary to resort. Aflatoxins are steady, but at tough heat treatment collapse. The product as a result becomes "dead". And the sterile product is - it is practically the same as chewing of sawdust. The product is, and there are no useful substances in it.
7. With green nuts it is harder and harder. It is possible to keep them for a long time only production from them of jam or compotes.