Glenn Anderson is having a tough time swallowing the almond industry's new rules that require heat treatment or chemical fumigation of the nuts he grows on 12 organic acres in the Central Valley.

In a warehouse near Newman, California millions of almonds are heated in huge metal containers. Dianne Newell is the plant manager for the Cosmed Group. Its business is to insure through sterilization ...

When you're talking about almonds, "raw" may not mean what you think. All California almonds — which would be virtually all the almonds in the country — are either heat-pasteurized or treated with a ...

In 2008, we wrote a story about the resurgence in the popularity of chestnuts. 2010 seems to be the year of the almond. There have been some recent developments that remind us just how desirable ...

A technical review panel of the Almond Board of California has given its seal of approval to another chemical-free process for pasteurizing almonds. The technology being marketed by RF Biocidics of ...

Left: Raw California almonds that have been pasteurized, as required by law. Right: Unpasteurized almonds, which some critics argue are the only really "raw" nuts. Glenn Anderson snacks on almonds at ...