Talk:Hazelnut/Archive 1

Filbert and Cobnut confused
I believe that the description of the cobnut and filbert (both species of the geunus hazel) may have been flip-flopped. Cobnuts are long and slender compared to the filbert species which is mostly round nuts. For examples of photo's do a quick google search on photo's of cobnuts and then again on filberts. The problem is that the two species are used synonymously, so I'm not sure how to get a definitive answer. My source of information is my family--we have grown filberts in Oregon for 3 generations, but...I guess we could be wrong? We call the round ones filberts...and the trees that produce long ones, cobnuts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.172.14.69 (talk) 18:49, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

It seems terms are interchangable, cob having a root in this context as lump or rounded mass, and filbert from St Philbert's feast day when nuts were expected to be ripe. The old variety 'Kentish Cob' is round, but corncobs are oval. It seems the terms to distinguish types of shape may be modern. Can anyone trace this back through dated variety phenotypes? No essential nature (talk) 00:43, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

country map
The text says that hazelnuts are produced in the US states of Washington and Oregon. But the map shows no such thing, indicating that in the US, they are found along the East Coast. Can someone explain or correct this inconsistency?
 * I can. The dots on the map are not related to the place within the country, but only to the country per se. The fact that there are several often red dots in charts like this and they are always right next to each other also hints towards this. But I share your opinion concerning the ambiguity of this practice. Npyrhone (talk) 13:40, 4 December 2009 (UTC)npyrhone

Removed vacuous marketing bumf from health section
About being an ideal foodstuff, and an unsourced ref to fat content (punted as being 'high in energy', typical marketing rubbish). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.98.243.224 (talk) 12:45, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Historical cultivation
The article claims on the basis of one study in which nuts that were radiocarbon-dated to 7000BC that agriculture was going on then. This is very surprising and should be met with skepticism. That date puts hazelnut agriculture in Scotland earlier than agriculture began in ancient Egypt and India, which are much better studied. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.173.186.26 (talk) 16:56, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

mass of a nut?
The lead section gives the diameter of a nut but does not indicate its mass or specific gravity. 75.210.39.104 (talk) 00:16, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Culinary uses
I do not know what the below sentence is meant to say. So I removed it from the "Culinary uses" section to here:

Hazelnuts varieties mostly imported from Europe are grown extensively in orchards in Australia, New Zealand,[12] and Chile.[13]

--Rogerhc (talk) 04:29, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. What is grown in Australia, etc? Varieties mostly imported from Europe. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 20:01, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

brown and white hazelnuts
A local store sells "plain white hazelnuts" and "plain brown hazelnuts". Can someone tell me the difference? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 20:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Is it possible that fresh hazlenuts are covered in a brown skin and some hazlenurs are sold with this skin ground off and so appear to be white. One reason for doing this might be that if the nut has a maggot in it this will become immediately obvious. john f 2.30.128.222 (talk) 08:03, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Registered fleet
Under the heading Modern cultivation, the table has a column headed "Registered Fleet." Does this have relevance to the topic at hand, or is it perhaps an artifact from the source from which the table was copied and needs to be deleted? -- Deborahjay (talk) 18:17, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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Not one word about animals (other than humans) eating these nuts? Talk about a narrow perspective
I get it that Wikipedia is often written by industrial interests and people who don't think much about ecology. What about the role of this nut as a food chain food source for squirrels or other animals? Does the harvesting of the nuts cause issues for squirrel populations? Not one word about anything like this in this article. There is more to a plant, including a nut, than industrial aspects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.233.128.31 (talk) 19:33, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

I've added an ecology section to the hazel article today. I wonder if I should copy and paste some of it here?Regularuk (talk) 13:10, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Sparta?
There is a reference to Sparta in the History section which doesn't make sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.232.48.64 (talk) 10:23, 19 January 2018 (UTC)


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 * Gravuritas (talk) 18:33, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

pests/diseases
There does not seem to be much about any pest or diseases that these plants might suffer from. What is done to eliminate nuts with maggots in them? john f 2.30.128.222 (talk) 07:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Allergen information
Despite not having a nut allergy, I recently had a reaction to hazelnuts and found out that those who suffer from hay fever are often sensitive to them. So, considering this seems to have a broader scope than the typical nut allergy, think it might be kinda important to mention it.

"Hazelnut belongs to the birch family, as do the hickory nut and filbert. If you are allergic to hazelnuts, you typically also are allergic to the other birch nuts, but might not be allergic to the other tree nut families, according to Dr. Anthony Pong, a lecturer in the department of pediatrics at the University of Ottawa."

https://www.livestrong.com/article/526767-hazelnut-allergy/

And, yes, I'm allergic to birch pollen, so this explains a few things.

99.74.188.246 (talk) 12:26, 1 July 2019 (UTC)