Are Chestnuts Nuts

The nut of this tree or shrub.

Are chestnuts nuts. Chestnuts are in a different botanical category to peanuts and also to tree nuts such as almonds walnuts cashews Brazils. The nuts they produced in the late fall were small about the size of an acorn and sweet with a. Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk.

I hadnt realised for instance that most nuts in the culinary sense such as peanuts brazil nuts etc. Read the Wiki nuts definition here. A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.

Chestnuts are nuts produced by seven species of Castanea trees. Chestnuts Chinese American European and Sequin are considered a tree nut by the FDA. If you have an allergy to tree nuts you will want to avoid chestnuts which grow on deciduous trees and shrubs.

They are also a nut. A quick Google search gave me an answer Yes a chestnut is a nut. They are a legume but again we think of them as nuts.

We can find no credible reports suggesting that conkers pose any risk to people with nut allergy. Its worth reading this definition in more detail. Most people with chestnut allergy can tolerate peanuts and tree nuts.

On the other hand there are other foods called chestnuts that are not. One article Ive read said that people with latex allergies also are often allergic to chestnuts. It is true that a chestnut is a nut.