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Efficacy and function of walnut

Walnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, higher than olive, and less in saturated fatty acids. The oil squeezed from walnuts belongs to high-grade edible oil. Walnut is also rich in vitamin E, which is recognized as a good fruit with anti-oxidation and anti-aging. In addition, walnut is rich in high-quality protein, various minerals, dietary fiber and carotene, which shows that walnut has high nutritional value and can be called "the whole body is a treasure".

According to the determination, every100g of dried walnut contains 385g of potassium, which helps the human body to maintain normal blood pressure and nervous system activities, acid-base balance and energy metabolism rate. It can be seen that eating walnuts can supplement the potassium in our body and keep our body stable, which is suitable for people with decreased metabolic function and unstable blood pressure.

Walnuts have many functions. Eating walnuts helps to protect our brains, lower our cholesterol, and help us moisturize our internal organs, maintain their functions, moisturize our skin and maintain excellent hair quality.

1, protect the brain. Walnuts contain phospholipids, which play an important role in transmitting information in the human brain. There are enough phospholipids in the brain, which is beneficial to intellectual development, supplementing brain power and improving memory, so eating walnuts can help us protect the brain.

2, lower cholesterol. Walnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, and the content of saturated fatty acids is relatively small, so it can control the concentration of human blood lipids and increase the content of high-density lipoprotein. Therefore, eating walnuts is conducive to controlling human cholesterol and lowering cholesterol, and can help us prevent diseases that are easily caused by hyperlipidemia, such as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, cerebral thrombosis, stroke and so on.

3, nourish the five internal organs and moisturize the black hair. Walnut has high oil content. Eating walnuts and taking oil will help nourish the five internal organs, strengthen the kidney and spleen, moisturize the skin, help the skin to resist oxidation and aging, supplement hair nutrition, improve hair quality and keep hair black and shiny.

Walnut is extremely rich in nutrition. Every100g of dried walnut contains the following nutrients:

Nutrients Name Content Nutrients Name Content Nutrients Name Content Calories 627.00 (calories) Potassium 385.00 (milligrams) Phosphorus 294.00 (milligrams) Carbohydrate 9.60 (grams) protein 14.90 (grams) Carotene 2.00 (micrograms) Selenium 4.62 (micrograms). Fat 58.80 (g) Vitamin A 5.00 (mg) Calcium 3.00 (mg) Zinc 9.02 (mg) Dietary fiber 9.50 (mg) Vitamin E 43.2 1 (mg) Sodium 6.40 (mg) Vitamin C 1.00 (mg).