european chestnut การใช้

• Japanese chestnut is also comparatively resistant to blight, with European chestnut somewhat less so.
• Peeling chestnuts is undeniably a hassle, which can be avoided by buying frozen European chestnuts.
• The superior fruiting varieties among European chestnuts have good size, sweet taste, and easy-to-remove inner skins.
• The native nut is a shade lighter than the much darker, occasionally black-striped, European chestnut, but darker than the buff-brown Chinese chestnut.
• European chestnuts ( C . sativa ), like the ones you buy from Italy, are terrific, but unfortunately, like American chestnuts, C . sativa gets the blight.
• The blight-resistant Chinese chestnut is now the most commonly planted chestnut species in the US, while the European chestnut is the source of commercial nuts in recent decades.
• The nut is edible and often eaten raw or roasted, with a flavor similar to a European chestnut; it may also be ground and made as a hot drink.
• Ken Asmus, the owner of Oikos Tree Crops in Michigan, said that European chestnuts, the variety commonly found in grocery stores, may or may not survive in the Northeast.