“What is the English name for Banak?”
Banak is something the majority of Kuwait’s people enjoy eating especially during winter time, its some sort of seed with a hard brown shiny cover which after breaking gives u access to the nice salty green pulp inside it, actually its not salty by nature but it becomes salty during the process of preparing that involves soaking and/or boiling in salty water..
Banak comes in different sizes…
small
medium ( Bulgarian AKA Jaw Breaker )
Large ( Turkish … AKA Dentist’s Nightmare )
Personally I prefer the medium/Large ones at least u get something that’s somehow worth risking the health of your jaws and teeth.. small ones usually crush and make a mess if u apply too much pressure.
For the past few days this question has been haunting me ” whats the English name for banak ? ” i searched all over the net it seems as it is a Kuwaiti invention or something…
So if u have any information about it please feel free to share it in the comments section below.
Posted by mjkout on November 10th, 2006 | 3,270 views| 
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) … i know it is addictive coz once my wife starts cracking she doesn’t stop till her lips become white and i use force to release the bag from her hand to save her life, Banak has a high content of salt which could cause pain in the feet for some people… i guess the only way to know is to take it to any airport in US and tell them some guy dropped this bag on me and ran away they will analyze it and we will know the English name + the content 
Hmmm i dont think it has an english name. I think they would just call it ‘seeds’ just like 7ab :/
Best banak balghari is at Qadsiya Co-op
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