fruits à coque

English translation: nuts

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French term or phrase:	fruits à coque
English translation:	nuts
Entered by:	Jason Willis-Lee

08:21 Oct 24, 2007

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Science - Food & Drink

French term or phrase: fruits à coque

Soybean allergy documentation. IS this "Shellfish" or "seafood"...TIA, Jason.

Douze enfants ont développé une réaction très sévère ; le soja est en cause six fois, l’arachide quatre fois, la noix de Brésil et l’œuf une fois.
Pour l’ensemble des 61 réactions, le soja est en cause 16 fois, l’arachide 20 fois et les **fruits à coque** 9 fois

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nuts

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Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
New Caledonia

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nuts

Ghyslaine LE NAGARD

all sorts of nuts!! (NFG)

David Goward

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nuts

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Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
New Caledonia
Native speaker of:

French,

English
PRO pts in category: 12

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Thanks NewCal...

4 hrs confidence:

all sorts of nuts!! (NFG)

Explanation:
Not wishing to steal NewCal's thunder, but I wanted to relate a little anecdote regarding this term.

About ten years ago, when I worked in-house for a French translation firm, we had a phone call from an industrial bakery who made various types of fruit tart, etc. They had received a letter from a rather irate customer in the UK (a supermarket chain) who had analysed one of their pear and almond tarts and - surprise, surprise - found almonds in it, whereas they had previously completed an "allergy questionnaire" and declared that their products contained no nuts.
Rather than going to the "enormous" expense of getting this questionnaire translated professionally (plug, plug), they had cut corners and used a dictionary. When they got to the question "Does your produce contain nuts?", they'd translated "nuts" as "noix" - and replied "No" (intending to say that their pear and almond tarts contained no walnuts).

We explained to them that "nuts" should really have been understood as all "fruits à coque" (although this term is far less common than the generic "nuts" in English) to avoid confusion. We then had a rather grovelling letter to translate to their customer!

David Goward
France
Local time: 17:03
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

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