Juglans regia variations in fatty acid content of the nuts: Walnuts and other tree nuts are important food-allergen sources that have the potential to be associated with life-threatening, IgE-mediated allergic reactions in some individuals. Certain extracts of walnuts have "in vitro" antioxidant and antiproliferative activity due to a high phenolic content. "Juglans regia" is used to treat Diabetes mellitus symptoms in Austrian traditional medicine, whereby air-dried leaves are used as aqueous decoction or liquor preparation and are consumed on a daily basis. In Skopelos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, local legend suggests whoever plants a walnut tree will die as
Fruit contrast, rhubarb is often referred to as a fruit, because it is used to make sweet desserts such as pies, though only the petiole (leaf stalk) of the rhubarb plant is edible, and edible gymnosperm seeds are often given fruit names, e.g., ginkgo nuts and pine nuts. Botanically, a cereal grain, such as corn, rice, or wheat, is also a kind of fruit, termed a caryopsis. However, the fruit wall is very thin and is fused to the seed coat, so almost all of the edible grain is actually a seed. The outer, often edible layer, is the "pericarp", formed