Walnut oil
Juglans regia · Oil
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Walnut oil is the rich, amber fat pressed from the kernels of the English (or Persian) walnut, Juglans regia. Deeply nutty and faintly sweet, it is prized as a finishing and salad oil rather than a frying medium — its delicate aroma and abundant fragile polyunsaturated fats both break down over high heat.
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Per 100 g
884kcal
0gcarbs
0gprotein
100gfat
0gfibre
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Walnut oil is unusually rich in omega-3: about 63 percent of it is polyunsaturated fat, and roughly a tenth of the oil is alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), a plant omega-3 that few other culinary oils carry in such quantity.
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