What do nuts include?

There are two kinds of nuts: tree nuts and seeds. Hazelnut, walnut, almond and cashew are all tree nuts, which are the essence of plants. They are rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as linolenic acid and linoleic acid, dietary fiber, vitamin B, vitamin E and trace elements such as phosphorus, calcium, zinc and iron.

hazel

Evaluation: It can reduce blood fat and has strong anticancer components. The king of nuts is rich in nutrition.

Among the "four big nuts", hazelnut has not only been eaten for the longest time, but also has the highest nutritional content, so it has the title of "king of nuts". In China's Book of Songs, it is recorded that people eat hazelnuts. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, hazelnuts were even court nuts. Eating hazelnuts was also a very popular thing in ancient Europe. They have been planting hazelnuts for 700 years.

walnut

Evaluation: It can improve the physiological function of the brain and beautify the face. Contains a variety of vitamins and can "moisturize and blacken hair".

Walnut is called "longevity fruit" in China, and "educational fruit" abroad. Since ancient times, it has been considered as the most suitable nut for mental workers.

Almonds are mainly divided into sweet almonds and bitter almonds, and nuts are especially sweet almonds.

1 Sweet almond: You can eat it raw, but you can't eat too much. Can also be used as medicine, partial nourishing. You can also make pickles, fructose, canned food, almond tea, almond dew, almond cream and other foods.

Bitter almond: mainly used as medicine. It tastes bitter and mild, has little toxicity, enters the lungs, and has the effects of relieving cough, relieving asthma, resolving phlegm and moistening the lungs. This is mainly because bitter almond contains "amygdalin", which can decompose a small amount of "hydrocyanic acid" in the human body and has a calming effect on the respiratory center, so it can relieve cough and asthma. Bitter almond should be detoxified before processing food and drink.

cashew

Screaming Trees peanut, a tropical evergreen tree, is native to northeast Brazil. Cashew nuts have been introduced to Hainan for 40 years. Cashews are treasures, and nuts are rich in nutrition. Cashew pears can be eaten as fruits. Nuts are nutritious and delicious foods, which contain 48% fat, 2 1% protein, 7% sugar 10-20% and a small amount of minerals, such as vitamin A, vitamin b 1 and vitamin b2. They are mostly used for making cashew chocolate, snacks, frying and pickling. Cashew kernel oil is a high quality edible oil. Oil cake contains 45% of protein and is an excellent feed. By-products include shell liquid and pears. Bark, root and resin can be used as medicine; Trunk is a rare high-quality material for making packing boxes and shipbuilding. Cashew nut processing center produces two kinds of cashew nut products: cashew nut kernel and cashew nut shell liquid, and cashew kernel is the main product.

Hazelnut, walnut kernel, sweet almond and cashew nut, which are known as the four largest nuts in the world, have little price disparity here, with different grades and prices ranging from 10-50 yuan.

Tip: Everything is good. Do not eat too much. Nuts are generally oily and greasy. Sweet almond contains a small amount of amygdalin, which is slightly toxic.