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The chestnut Castanea is a kind of deciduous tree belo-nging to the beech family Fagaceae. The fruit is edible and tasty, cont-ains quite a lot of starch and it is used a lot for preparing sweets. Chestnuts can be eaten boiled, roasted and even raw. Sweet chestnuts should not be confused with horse chestnuts that humans must not eat. | It comes in woven net bags, weighing 25 kg. |