When Are Fresh Walnuts in Season? A Detailed Guide to Price per Jin and Nutritional Value
Fresh walnuts, also known as green-skinned walnuts, are, as the name suggests, walnuts that have not gone through a drying process. So when are they usually in season? How much does a jin cost? What is their nutritional value? According to walnut grower Hu Jigang, fresh walnuts usually set fruit in July and come to market in August-September. So friends who love fresh walnuts should not miss out!
How much does a jin of fresh walnuts cost?
Generally twenty to thirty yuan per jin. When fresh walnuts are available, old walnuts are all around ten-plus yuan per jin, and a jin contains roughly thirty to fifty walnuts!
Below are fresh walnut prices in some regions on September 13, as provided by the Walnut Price Network:
Taiyuan Hexi Agricultural and Sideline Products Market, Shanxi Province - walnut price: 40.00 yuan/kg
Jinan Dikou Fruit Wholesale Market - walnut price: 24.00 yuan/kg
Henan Wanbang International Agricultural Products Logistics Co., Ltd. - walnut price: 19.00 yuan/kg
The average walnut price on September 13, 2017 was as follows: 29.5 yuan/kg (unchanged)
What is the nutritional value of fresh walnuts?
1. Phospholipids in fresh walnuts. They have a good protective effect on the cranial nerves. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids and has the effect of preventing and treating arteriosclerosis. Walnut kernels contain trace elements essential to the human body, such as zinc, manganese, and chromium. During the aging process, the body's zinc and manganese levels gradually decline, while chromium helps promote glucose utilization, cholesterol metabolism, and cardiovascular protection. The antitussive and antiasthmatic effects of walnut kernels are also very pronounced; in winter, they are extremely effective for patients with chronic bronchitis and asthma. It can be seen that eating walnuts regularly can both strengthen the body and resist aging. Some people often take tonic medicines, but in fact eating a few walnuts every morning and evening is truly of great benefit, often better than taking tonics.
2. Fresh walnuts are an excellent food therapy product. Whether used in medicinal preparations, or eaten raw on their own, boiled in water, made into sugar-coated treats, or cooked in dishes, they all have good effects such as nourishing the blood and boosting qi, tonifying the kidneys and replenishing essence, relieving cough and calming asthma, and moistening dryness to relieve constipation. There are many ways to eat walnuts. Boil walnuts with an appropriate amount of salt water; drinking the water and eating the residue can treat symptoms such as kidney-deficiency low back pain, spermatorrhea, impotence, forgetfulness, tinnitus, and frequent urination. Cooking walnuts together with coix seed and chestnuts into porridge can treat conditions such as frequent urination, spermatorrhea, loose stools, and dawn diarrhea. Making sugar-coated treats with walnuts, sesame, and lotus seeds can nourish the heart and strengthen the brain, and can also treat night sweats. Eating raw walnuts with longan pulp and hawthorn can improve heart function. Walnuts are also widely used to treat neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, emphysema, stomach pain, and other conditions.
3. Eating fresh walnuts nourishes the brain. Walnut kernels can be pounded with rock sugar into “walnut paste”, stored tightly in a porcelain jar, and two spoonfuls taken each time and mixed with boiling water; when the water is poured, a layer of white liquid floats up in the cup. This is “walnut milk”, rich and delicious.
4. It helps improve complexion. If you eat “walnut porridge” made by grinding walnut kernels into powder and cooking it over a long period, it can nourish the skin and make people fair and delicate; it is especially suitable for older people to eat regularly as their skin ages.
5. Fresh walnuts can also resist aging. The vitamin E contained in walnut kernels can protect cells from oxidative damage caused by free radicals and is recognized by the medical community as an anti-aging substance, so walnuts are known as the “ten-thousand-year seed” and the “longevity fruit”.
6. Note that it is generally considered appropriate to eat 5-6 walnuts per day, about 20-30 grams of walnut kernels; eating too many may cause phlegm and nausea; in addition, people with yin deficiency and excess fire, people with loose stools, people who vomit blood, and people with nosebleeds should eat fewer or avoid walnut kernels.