The types of dried fruits include hazelnuts, chestnuts, pine nuts, pistachios, and lotus seeds. The specific introduction is as follows:

1. Hazelnuts are comprehensive and rich in nutrition. Regular consumption has good effects on heart disease, cancer, and vascular diseases. It has preventive and therapeutic effects, and can also improve eyesight and strengthen the brain.

2. Chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber. Strengthens the spleen and stomach, nourishes the kidneys and strengthens the heart. The glycemic index is lower than rice, so people with diabetes can enjoy it appropriately. Only take 6 to 7 pills a day. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts are the best for treating kidney deficiency and waist and leg weakness. But eating too much can easily make your stomach upset.

3. The fat components of pine nuts are oleic acid and linolenic acid, which can lower blood pressure, prevent arteriosclerosis, and prevent cardiovascular diseases caused by increased cholesterol.

4. Pistachios mainly contain monounsaturated fatty acids. This type of fat is very stable, so pistachios are not as prone to rancidity as other nuts. They can lower cholesterol levels and reduce the chance of heart disease. Scientists calculate that eating 10 pistachios at one time is equivalent to eating 1.5 grams of monounsaturated fat.

5. Lotus seeds are dry fruits. They are neutral in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, and enter the heart, spleen and kidney meridian. Traditional Chinese medicine is often used for symptoms such as sleeplessness, insomnia, forgetfulness, upset and thirst, low back pain, weak feet, hearing loss, spermatorrhea, turbid stranguria, chronic dysentery, deficiency and diarrhea, vaginal discharge in women, and stomach deficiency and inability to eat.

Extended information:

1. The best time to eat nuts is during meals. This is because eating after meals can lead to excessive energy intake throughout the day. Eating nuts with meals can help enhance our feeling of fullness, especially nuts with high dietary fiber content such as large almonds, small almonds, and hazelnuts, which have the best effect.

2. According to research from authoritative organizations: Eating nuts more than twice a week can reduce people’s risk of fatal heart disease. This is a characteristic of nut consumption among 20,000 male doctors in the US Doctors’ Health Research Project. Accurate results after conducting surveys.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Nuts