Every Brazil nut you eat comes from the Amazon rainforest. Brazil nut trees have a unique reproductive system, which requires the presence of large bees to transport pollen from one tree to another. This means these Amazonian giants only thrive in natural forests, and when trees are cut down around them, they no longer produce.
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