Students: Amazing Health Benefits From Eating Cashew Nuts

Sauntering up or down California on a sunny day with the top down on your convertible provides you with a relaxing and breathtaking view of the Golden Hills of the magical land with the endless Pacific coastline.

Golden light brown and caramel are soft colors that can bring a sense of soothing pleasure to what ever they touch.

Like beautiful women dressed in brown.

Don’t they go well together?

There is so much symbolism with this caressing color.

The informative site appropriately titled bourncreative.com enlightens, “Brown, the color of earth, wood, stone, wholesomeness, reliability, elegance, security, healing, home, grounding, foundations, stability, warmth, and honesty, is a natural, neutral color that is typically associated with the seasons of fall and winter.

The color brown is a warm color that stimulates the appetite. While it is sometimes considered dull, it also represents steadfastness, simplicity, friendliness, dependability, and health.”

You knew that right?

There is something else that this soft color goes well with and on that is so good for you and tastes delicious.

You love cashews don’t you?

Most people do.

The cashew tree is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple.

The species is originally native to northeastern Brazil. Portuguese colonists in Brazil began exporting cashew nuts as early as the 1550s. Major production of cashews occurs in Vietnam, Nigeria, India, and Ivory Coast.

The cashew nut, often simply called a cashew, is widely consumed. It is eaten on its own, used in recipes, or processed into cashew cheese or cashew butter. The shell of the cashew seed yields derivatives that can be used in many applications including lubricants, waterproofing, paints, and arms production, starting in World War II.

That’s fascinating.

We welcome the thoughts of whfoods.com, a lover of cashews themselves. “Not only do cashews have a lower fat content than most other nuts, approximately 82% of their fat is unsaturated fatty acids, plus about 66% of this unsaturated fatty acid content are heart-healthy monounsaturated fats, similar to those found in olive oil. Studies of diabetic patients show that monounsaturated fat, when added to a low-fat diet, can help to reduce high triglyceride levels. Triglycerides are a form in which fats are carried in the blood, and high triglyceride levels are associated with an increased risk for heart disease, so ensuring you have some monounsaturated fats in your diet by enjoying cashews is a good idea, especially for persons with diabetes.”

We absolutely love cashews and can consume them endlessly.

Okay, let’s take a beautiful woman in brown break, because if you are on the fence about eating cashews, every time that you see a gorgeous woman dressed in brown, always remember that cashews can be very good for you.

Now we’d like to invite you to lend your attention to an effective speaker who shares some more nutritious ideas about cashews.

Amazing Health Benefits of Cashew Nuts – Are You Eating Them?

By Karthik Guduru  |   Submitted On March 31, 2017

The cashew plant is native to Brazil and was introduced to India in the latter half of the 16th century as a crop to check soil erosion. Today it is a valued cash crop, grown on the slopes of the hilly regions of the east and west coasts of India.

All those pictures with the cashew nut perched on top of its parent fruit should tell you that cashew nuts are seeds of the cashew plant- but with a difference. They grow OUTSIDE the core or heart of the fruit!

Uses of cashew nuts

A handful of cashew nut or kaju is the tastiest of snacks. Cashews are used for garnishing of curries and sweets, and made into a paste and used to enrich gravies. Who hasn’t heard of or yearned after kaju barfi or spooned up the garnish of slivered kajus on top of a halwa!

Nutritional value

A 100 gm. serving of kaju provides 553 calories. The nuts are high in fats, protein, and dietary fibre. They are rich sources of minerals including iron, potassium, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, phosphorous and magnesium. Kaju also contains thiamine, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin K.

100 grams of raw cashew nut contains 113 mg of beta-sitosterol which has considerable medicinal value.

Cashew nuts are nutrient dense. Eating a handful of cashew nuts comes with many health benefits.

Rich in vitamins

The nutrition profile of cashew nuts shows us how rich they are in the vitamins that are so essential to the functioning of our bodies.

Vitamin B6 holds the key to more than 100 enzyme reactions in our body and is necessary for metabolizing proteins at the cellular level.

Thiamine or Vitamin B1 is essential to prevent deficiency diseases like beriberi, the inflammation of nerves or neuritis associated with pellagra or deficiencies during pregnancy. Thiamine is also beneficial to kidney health in people with type 2 diabetes and preventing memory loss including that caused by Alzheimer’s. Thiamine is essential to the human body to make proper use of carbohydrates.

Vitamin K is necessary for the clotting of blood to prevent excessive bleeding. Recent studies have suggested that it is beneficial to bone health particularly in preventing osteoporosis and steroid-induced bone loss.

A handful of kaju is truly a vitamin supplement- and a tasty one at that!

Mineral wealth a boon to health

Cashew nuts are a good iron supplement: the mineral is essential for keeping anemia at bay.

Selenium is an important micronutrient necessary for the formation of anti-oxidants that ensure heart health.

Minerals such as copper, manganese, and zinc are necessary for bone health, digestion, DNA synthesis, sexual functions, eyesight, etc. In fact, every function in our body is triggered and controlled by all these essential minerals.

Benefits of Beta-sitosterol

This plant ester found in cashew nuts is a boon of nature. It boosts the immune system, prevents colon cancer, and is good for the gall bladder by arresting the formation of gallstones. It is also useful in the treatment of migraines, hair loss, bronchitis and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Cashew nuts are also recommended for a pleasant night’s rest especially during menopause.

Some common misconceptions

Cashew nuts are high in fats. But these are mostly unsaturated fats. You can get 67% of your daily value of fat from 100 grams of kaju. Cashew nuts also contain 17 % of saturated fat; this is more than the 6% contained in walnuts and almonds, but not such a huge difference as to put them on a banned foods list! If you have to choose between an equivalent amount of chips or any other type of fast food, and cashews, go for the latter! Kaju is nutritionally more beneficial: this is not an ’empty calories’ kind of snack.

There are those few who have tree nut and peanut allergies. Individuals with known allergic reactions must take care.

Since cashew nuts are so nutritionally dense, it would be a good idea to eat them by replacing empty calories like fried snacks rather than in addition to your regular calorific intake.

It’s best to eat cashew nuts raw, but nobody should deny themselves the pleasure of the roasted and spiced variety once in a way.

How to store

Cashew nuts usually stay fresh for up to a month. Keep them in a bottle or container with a tight-fitting lid.

If you have more than you can use, you can keep them in the fridge for up to 4-6 months.[adToAppearHere]

If you’ve got a whole lot in some sort of a Diwali bonanza, then it’s best to store them in the freezer.

Kajus can be bought everywhere from your local grocery store to exclusive dry fruit shops. A good brand ensures that the cashew nuts that you are going to buy have been stored well and are free from pests.

Kaju also comes in different grades. The bigger the size of the nut, the costlier it is. These nuts are also more valued and expensive when they are whole. The problem with buying whole nuts is that you don’t know what they may shelter inside. This is the reason that you must buy from a reputed brand or store to get the best value for your money.[adToAppearHere]

Include cashew nuts in your diet to supplement your nutritional intake. Add them to your morning cereal. Use kaju paste instead of cream to give your gravies that thick texture and creamy taste. Or just take a fistful and enjoy your day while munching away.[adToAppearHere]

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