>
> Please trim posts? ;-)

Yes, ma'am That one slipped through

> That one was really too long to begin with but I could not see any way
> to shorten it as some people don't like to follow links...
>
> I had to google the above:
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> http://www.dietobio.com/aliments/en/argan.html
>
> but it does not look like it passes thru the digestive system of an
> animal first????
> --

I did some googling in Dutch - several sites say the nuts are "passed"
through a living goat before being pressed. If only to remove the shell,
they can't digest the actual nut, apparently. But these days, hand shelling
is done, too.

Apparently, it tastes nutty and like sweetish sesame .

My source:

http://www.meeuwig.nl/producten.html (under olie, then argan)