The bioactivity and nutritional roles of some mineral and nutritive constituents of hazelnut Corylus avellana and walnut Juglans regia

Abstract

Two genuses of imported nuts (Turkish Hazelnut and Uzbek Walnut) were examined for their nutritional and mineral contents. It was found that the percentages on dry weight basis of total ash, proteins, lipids, total carbohydrates, reducing sugars, crude fiber, total phenolic compounds, free phenolic compounds, tannins(g/100g) and ascorbic acid (mg/100g) for the hazelnut were 1.