Nuts are a variety of fruits that are often harvested from either trees or shrubs. Their distinctive feature is the presence of a hard shell that hides softer contents underneath. Fortunately, this product combines two properties - great benefits and great taste. It is thanks to this that nuts have earned themselves great popularity in world cuisine.
Varieties of nuts
The single term "nuts" includes a large number of varieties or families of nuts. Moreover, not all of them are edible and outwardly similar to each other. For example, the Beech family also includes a completely edible chestnut, as well as beech nuts or the so-called plane trees and common acorns.
By the way, unlike Russia, chestnut is very common in Europe as a variant of cheap fast food.
The Walnut family includes walnuts that are quite familiar to Russians, as well as black nuts, Munchzhur nuts, gray nuts, pecans, which in Eastern countries are also called hazel and hickory, and bitter nuts. There is another family of Birch - hazelnut or hazelnut, bear nut, which is also called Turkish, and hazelnut or Lombard nut.
But there is also a number of fruits traditionally referred to as nuts, but in fact they are not. Also, a fairly common variety - almond - belongs to the Pink family, and earthen almonds or chufa to the Sedge family. The Sumakhovs include both pistachios and cashews, and in the same eastern countries, the latter are most often called kazhu or akazhu. The Derbennikovs include the chillis water nut, and the Legume family includes peanuts or peanuts or fennuts. The record holder for fat content - the Brazil nut - is part of the Lecithis family, and the macadamia, which is gaining more and more popularity around the world, together with the Chilean hazelnut or hevuina, belongs to the Protein family. Also known to Russian consumers, coconuts, in turn, belong to the Palm family, and pine nuts - to the Pine nuts.
The benefits and composition of nuts
One of the most important and useful components of almost all nuts and other fruits related to them is the fatty and very useful Omega 3 acid. Numerous clinical trials of the effects and effects of which on the human body have shown a very important property to normalize and reduce blood cholesterol levels. As a result, it also affects the work of the heart and the condition of the blood vessels.
At the same time, of course, it is not recommended to consume such products for those people who are striving to lose weight and lose their own weight, since nuts, of course, have a rather high fat content. But nutritionists and doctors also strongly recommend including nuts in their diet for those patients who suffer from the so-called insulin resistance.
Usually these are people diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, and of both types.
Also in the composition of a large number of nuts are linoleic and linolenic acids, which are simply irreplaceable for the normal functioning of the human body. And arginine, referred to as "nutty" amino acids, is able to actively maintain the elasticity and integrity of arterial vessels, being an excellent preventive "remedy" for the development of atherosclerosis.
It is recommended to include in your diet small portions of a wide variety of nuts in order to make up for the lack of vitamins E and B2 in the body, as well as magnesium, phosphorus, selenium, copper and calcium.
