{"id":177,"date":"2024-05-05T15:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T19:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/?p=177"},"modified":"2024-05-05T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T19:53:52","slug":"almond-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/almond-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Almond oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/nutritionsource\/food-features\/almonds\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1052\/2024\/04\/almond.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-290\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.678688524590164;width:580px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1052\/2024\/04\/almond.png 512w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1052\/2024\/04\/almond-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/nutritionsource\/food-features\/almonds\/\">Almonds<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Latin name:<\/strong> <em>Prunus amygdalus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Place of origin:<\/strong> Western Asia, Mediterranean region<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong>Almond trees grow white flowers and drupes, which reveal their seed, also known as almonds when opened. Almond oil comes from the almond seeds (Cumo, 2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historical medicinal use:<\/strong> Marie de Fouquet lists almond oil as an ingredient in multiple recipes, including one designed to make childbirth easier for women and another to help with the common cold (Fouquet, 1685).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Modern medicinal use: <\/strong>Recent medical trials suggest that almonds can reduce insulin resistance and one\u2019s risk of heart disease (&#8220;Almonds&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlmonds.\u201d <em>The Nutrition Source<\/em>, 2 Mar. 2022, www.hsph.harvard.edu\/nutritionsource\/food-features\/almonds\/. Accessed 22 Apr. 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumo, Christopher. <em>Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants: From Acacia to Zinnia<\/em>. ABC-CLIO, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Fouquet, Marie. <em>Recueil des rem\u00e8des faciles et domestiques, choisis et exp\u00e9riment\u00e9s, et tr\u00e8s approuv\u00e9s pour toutes sortes de maladies internes et externes, et difficiles \u00e0 guerir<\/em>. 1685.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latin name: Prunus amygdalus Place of origin: Western Asia, Mediterranean region Description: Almond trees grow white flowers and drupes, which reveal their seed, also known&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/almond-oil\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almond oil<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seeds","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}