Walnuts can be eaten raw or cooked, each has its own benefits.

The scientific name for walnuts is pecans, because walnuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, phospholipids, proteins, minerals and trace elements and other nutrients, which will not be damaged because of heating, so when you eat walnuts, you can eat them raw or cooked.

And from the absorption and utilization of vitamins, walnuts eaten raw nutritional loss is minimal, because vitamins in the heating process will have a large part of the oxidative damage, therefore, if from the point of view of vitamin absorption and utilization, it is better to eat raw. But if you do not consider the factor of vitamins, for other nutrients, it is the same.

But in terms of taste, raw walnuts taste compared to cooked walnuts taste more bitter, while cooked walnuts taste more fragrant, so many people will choose to eat cooked walnuts.

Walnut selection method

1, the appearance of the more fine grain more walnuts, its flesh is more full. If the lines are thicker and deeper, the flesh is more dried out.

2, look at the walnut above there is no white powder. If there is white powder means that some merchants in order to walnuts look good, to the walnuts bleached, bleached when some walnuts will crack, inside the pulp sticking to the powder, eat more on the health is affected.

3, buy walnuts must weigh the weight of walnuts, if the same size walnuts, color lines are the same, heavier is definitely better.

4, break open a walnut, the flesh inside is very fresh, the flesh of the sandwich is also very thin, such walnuts are really high-quality walnuts.

5, pick up a walnut smell, if the smell is light, there is a fragrance, such walnuts is normal, if the smell out of moldy, smelly, smelly, indicating that the merchant has been soaked with medicinal water, damp so moldy.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Walnut