First, the top ten nuts recommended by Spring Festival snacks
During the Spring Festival, every family must prepare some snacks. If you are concerned about health, you may wish to choose nuts as snacks. So, what nuts should I buy as snacks for the New Year?
1, pistachio-friend of the heart
It mainly contains monounsaturated fatty acids, so pistachios are not rancid like other nuts, which can reduce cholesterol content and reduce heart disease.
Functions and Taboos: Eating 10 pistachios at a time is equivalent to eating 1.5g monounsaturated fatty acids. Pistachio nuts have been stored for too long and should not be eaten again. Pistachio nuts are high in calories and fat. People who are afraid of obesity and have high blood lipids should eat less.
2, hazelnut-high amino acid content
Hazelnut is rich in nutrition, and the content of eight amino acids needed by human body is much higher than that of walnut.
Functions and taboos: The contents of calcium, phosphorus and iron in hazelnut are also higher than those in other nuts. Because of its rich nutrition and sweet taste, people have regarded it as a rare fruit since ancient times. Hazelnut is flat and sweet, and has the effects of invigorating qi and spleen, stopping diarrhea, improving eyesight and expelling insects.
3. Chestnut-"the fruit of kidney" is beneficial to the adjuvant treatment of kidney deficiency.
Functions and taboos: Because chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber, diabetics can also taste them in moderation. However, chestnuts are difficult to digest when eaten raw, and cooked food is easy to lag, so it is not appropriate to eat more at once. It is best to treat chestnuts as snacks between meals, or eat them during meals, rather than eating them in large quantities after meals, so as not to consume too many calories, which is not conducive to maintaining weight.
Fresh chestnuts are prone to mildew and deterioration, and eating moldy chestnuts will be poisoned, so spoiled chestnuts cannot be eaten.
4, walnuts-can be called the "king" of oxidation resistance.
Functions and taboos: The American Dietetic Association advises people to eat walnuts two or three times a week, especially middle-aged and elderly people and menopausal women, because the arginine, oleic acid and antioxidants contained in walnuts are quite beneficial to protect the cardiovascular system and prevent coronary heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer's disease. Don't eat too much at a time, otherwise it will affect digestion. Some people like to peel off the thin brown skin on the surface of walnut kernel, which will lose some nutrients, so don't peel off this skin.
5. The best sunflower seeds in melon seeds are rich in nutrition.
Functions and Taboos: Eating a handful of sunflower seeds every day can meet the vitamin E needed by the human body for one day. Protein contained in sunflower seeds can be compared with all kinds of meat, especially arginine, which is indispensable for semen production. Eating sunflower seeds often has a certain effect on preventing coronary heart disease and stroke, lowering blood pressure and protecting vascular elasticity. Medical scientists believe that sunflower seeds can treat insomnia, enhance memory and prevent cancer, hypertension and neurasthenia.