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Researchers study phenolics in hazelnuts
Hazelnuts are a good source of several antioxidants, but removing the skin from hazelnuts lowers the individual and total phenolics content, according to researchers at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The researchers also found that roasting hazelnuts had little effect on their phenolics content.

The researchers established phenolics profiles of six European hazelnut cultivars and then compared the individual antioxidant activities of the hazelnuts w…