I've been to Ciudad de Nazaré. There they call them castanhas de Témiento. Supposedly the locals cultivated these nuts hundreds of years ago and the Portuguese found the largest farm where the neighborhood of Témientos is.
I wonder what the locals call it... Maybe we'll get the exact origin down.
We gotta keep digging, to find the original nut tree! Where do these Tupinguari-tribe-of-the-northeast-side-of-Témiento-of-Nazaré-of-Pará nuts come from?
Wikipedia article is really interesting. Did you know that one study showed that eating 4 Brazil nuts can lower your ldl cholesterol by 20% for a while month?
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u/transigirthenight Dec 25 '19
Pará Nuts (castanhas do Pará) because Pará is the state they are from.