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Presently the principal Hazelnut producing countries are Turkey, Italy, Spain, Georgia, Azerbaijan and The United States.
Turkey is the largest producer of Hazelnuts. Very few countries in the world have a climate as favorable for hazelnut production as that of Turkey. Today, out of 900,000 hectares of world hazelnut production areas, 700,000 hectares belong to Turkey. Turkey produces approximately 550,000 - 750,000 MT/Inshell a year.
Among the nuts species, hazelnuts play a major role in human nutrition and health, because of their special composition of fat (mainly oleic acid), protein, carbohydrate, vitamins (vitamin E), minerals, dietary fibres, phytosterols (beta- cytosterol) and antioxidant phenolics. The nutritional and sensory properties of hazelnuts make them a unique and ideal ingredient for various food products.