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Walnut

Also called Juglans regia

Walnuts are seeds whose kernels cooks treat as nuts. They are sold whole and can be eaten raw, pickled, or used as a garnish.

  • Plant-based

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Nuts & seeds
Part used
Kernel, seed
Family
Juglandaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Armenia
Walnut, whole

Photo: Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use walnut

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Garnish
  • Pickle
  • Raw

Preparing it

Remove the shell before eating the ripe kernel.

Shopping

Choosing and storing walnut

In season · Northern hemisphere

  1. Janout of season
  2. Febout of season
  3. Marout of season
  4. Aprout of season
  5. Mayout of season
  6. Junout of season
  7. Julout of season
  8. Augout of season
  9. Sepin season
  10. Octin season
  11. Novin season
  12. Decout of season

In seasonPeak

Sold as
Whole

Nutrition

What 100 g of walnut holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 15%Fat 73%Carbohydrate 11%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of walnut, raw
Energy730 kcal
Protein15 g
Fat70 g
of which saturated6.1 g
Carbohydrate11 g
Fibre5.2 g
Sodium0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of walnut, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium424 mg
Calcium88 mg
Iron2.2 mg
Magnesium142 mg
Zinc2.8 mg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 2346394), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where walnut is cooked

7 dishes in the catalogue use walnut. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list walnut among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with walnut

5 of the 7 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Baklava

  • Bagea

    Indonesia

  • Mshosh

    Armenia

  • Nokul

    Türkiye

  • Honey walnut shrimp

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include walnut.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: walnut in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: eggs, fish, milk, molluscs, sulphites, crustaceans.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Alcohol
None
Pork
None

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What walnut is called

Names in 90 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    nuez

  • French

    noix

  • Italian

    noce

  • Portuguese

    noz · nozes

  • German

    Walnuss · Walnüsse

  • Dutch

    walnoot · walnoten

  • Greek

    καρύδι

  • Turkish

    ceviz · koz

  • Russian

    грецкий орех · плод грецкого ореха

  • Polish

    orzech włoski

  • Arabic

    جوز · عين جمل · الجوز · عين الجمل

  • Persian

    مغز گردو

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  • Afrikaans

    okkerneut

  • Albanian

    arra

  • Armenian

    ընկույզ

  • Asturian

    nuez

  • azb

    گیرده‌کان

  • Bangla

    আখরোট

  • Basque

    intxaur

  • Belarusian

    грэцкі арэх

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    валоскі арэх · грэцкі арэх

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    noz · nozes

  • Breton

    kraoñenn

  • Bulgarian

    орех

  • Cantonese

    合桃仁

  • Catalan

    nou · anou · noga

  • Cebuano

    nogal

  • Cherokee

    ᏎᏗ

  • Chinese

    胡桃 · 核桃 · 胡桃木

  • Chuvash

    аçтăрхан мăйăрĕ · аçтăрхан мăйăрĕ (çимĕç)

  • Corsican

    noce

  • Crimean Tatar (Romania)

    ğewez · ğañgak

  • Czech

    vlašský ořech

  • Danish

    valnød

  • dty

    ओखण

  • Egyptian Arabic

    جوز

  • Esperanto

    juglandonukso · juglando

  • Estonian

    kreeka pähklid

  • Finnish

    saksanpähkinä

  • Galician

    noz

  • Goan Konkani

    akrutt

  • Goan Konkani (Devanagari)

    अक्रोड

  • Goan Konkani (Latin)

    akrutt

  • Hebrew

    אגוזי מלך · אגוז מלך · אגוז אנגלי · אגוז קליפורניה

  • Hindi

    अखरोट

  • Hungarian

    dió

  • Icelandic

    valhneta

  • Ido

    nuco

  • Indonesian

    kacang kenari

  • Irish

    gallchnó

  • Japanese

    クルミ · 胡桃

  • Javanese

    walnut

  • Kabyle

    agusim

  • Kannada

    ಅಖ್ರೋಟ್

  • Kashmiri

    ڈوٗن

  • Kazakh

    грек жаңғағы

  • Korean

    호두

  • Kyrgyz

    жаңгак

  • Latin

    Iuglans · nux

  • Latvian

    valrieksts

  • Literary Chinese

    核桃

  • Luxembourgish

    Déck Noss · Knécksert · Nëss · Noss

  • Macedonian

    орев · орев (плод)

  • Malay

    jauzah

  • Malayalam

    വാൽനട്ട്

  • Marathi

    अक्रोड

  • Min Nan Chinese

    hu̍t-thô

  • Navajo

    haʼałtsédii

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    valnøtt

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    valnøtt

  • Occitan

    notz

  • Odia

    ଅଖରୋଟ

  • Pashto

    غوز

  • Piedmontese

    nos · nosera

  • Punjabi

    ਅਖਰੋਟ

  • Serbian

    orah · orah (plod) · орах

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    胡桃

  • Sindhi

    اکروٽ

  • Slovak

    vlašský orech

  • Slovenian

    oreh

  • Swedish

    valnöt

  • Swiss High German

    Baumnuss

  • Tamil

    வாதுமைக் கொட்டை

  • Tatar

    әстерхан чикләвеге · әстерхан чикләвеге (җимеш)

  • Telugu

    అక్రోటుకాయ

  • Thai

    วอลนัต

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    胡桃

  • Ukrainian

    горіх волоський · горіх грецький

  • Upper Sorbian

    worjech · włóski worjech · worjechi

  • Urdu

    اخروٹ

  • Uyghur

    ياڭاق

  • Uzbek

    yongʻoq

  • Venetian

    noza · noza (fruta)

  • Vietnamese

    quả óc chó

  • Welsh

    cnau Ffrengig

  • Western Panjabi

    اخروٹ دی گری

  • Yoruba

    àsálà

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q208021

Photos

Photo: Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons