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then it’s, once it’s roasted it has to be ground up into the texture that everybody is used to. So it’s kind <br />of, it’s a ground nut, basically. That’s all it is, nothing outside, generally. <br /> <br />AU: Any questions? Commissioner Ono? <br /> <br />ONO: Thank you. Could you kind of give me an idea as to what’s the end product? I’m trying to read <br />this -. And I thought it was just merely washing the nut to be, ready to be shipped out, the whole <br />kernel, rather than -. You’re talking about doing some kind of processing? <br /> <br />A. MAUCH: The end product is just the raw kukui nut is roasted in an oven. <br /> <br />ONO: So you’re going to have a -? <br /> <br />A. MAUCH: There would need to be an oven on-site, yeah. <br /> <br />ONO: What about this oil thing? I’m not familiar with that. <br /> <br />A. MAUCH: The oil is, it doesn’t need to be cooked. It’s just the raw, the raw kukui nut is pressed. <br />There’s a lot of oil in the nut. And that oil is used, not as a food product, but it’s used more for <br />cosmetic use. <br /> <br />ONO: And anything else you hope to be developing with this? <br /> <br />A. MAUCH: We don’t have anything else planned at this point. There are byproducts like the shells <br />could be used for mulch, and that kind of things. But that’s not -. <br /> <br />ONO: I really am curious more about kukui nuts more than anything else. Are there any other uses <br />for the kernel itself, I mean, that you could develop? Like you were saying oil, you know, for the poke <br />area? <br /> <br />A. MAUCH: As a food product I’m only aware of as a seasoning. It doesn’t have a lot of food value. <br />Like you said, or someone said, you can’t eat very much of it. So it’s just a light use. The oil has other <br />uses. It’s used in the cosmetic type products. Hair, things like that. <br /> <br />ONO: So you have no plans to look at developing in that, the kernel in that way? <br /> <br />A. MAUCH: Just oil which I’ve mentioned, yeah. <br /> <br />ONO: Excuse my curiosity cause your application just brings back memories when I first started <br />teaching and I had that kukui nut in the, well, it was good. So I’m kind of looking forwarding to this. <br />Thank you. <br /> <br />A. MAUCH: Thank you. <br /> <br />LEITHEAD TODD: Just to give you a little bit background. Traditionally the kukui nut was dried <br />and strung on a stick of some type, was used as a candle by Hawaiians because of the quantity of oil in <br /> 5 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />