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angie207 said:

el-bo: I don’t know where you got the thing about nuts being dried, but we have an apricot tree. The nuts/kernels from inside the pit are similar to almonds in appearance, taste & texture, and the minute I pick a fresh apricot & crack the pit open to eat the nut, the nut is like a raw almond – not juicy at all, but like a nut. We also have a walnut tree, and I’ve never gotten a juicy walnut, and they stay just fine until the next year without drying them or using any other kind of preservative. Pine nuts, on the other hand, are the ones I know of that are juicy if you get them freshly picked. The apricot kernels taste like almonds with almond extract added, btw :)

Hi angie207,

I don't really know much about the health benefits of eating raw foods...but I came across this discussion while researching nuts.

In my research I found an article that said eating apricot kernels can be dangerous.  In their raw form, they contain a form of cyanide. 

http://www.mashed.com/74664/nuts-you-should-shouldnt-eating/sl/dont-eat-bitter-almonds

...There are other nuts and seeds as well that contain some sort of poison if not processed correctly.