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Can you eat cashew skin?

Cashew skin can be eaten.

If from the nutritional composition, cashews with skin to maximize the retention of the original nutrition of cashews, and not with skin cashews are more suitable for snacks to relieve cravings. Because of the skin, the taste of cashews without skin is a little worse than that of cashews without skin, so cashews without skin are more popular.

The unprocessed cashews, shells and skins are with a certain degree of toxicity, so in the processing of the shells will be removed, the production process of cashews with skin is simpler than without skin cashews, cashews without skin is in the skin on the basis of the secondary processing of cashews.

The cashews with skin retain the original flavor of cashews to the greatest extent possible, while the cashews without skin lose some of their nutrients in the secondary processing, so the cashews with skin will be more nutritious than the cashews without skin.

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Nutritional value and efficacy of cashews

Cashews are known as the world's famous four nuts (including walnuts, walnuts and hazelnuts), one of the favorite. Cashews are rich in protein, a variety of vitamins and trace elements needed by the human body, which is second only to sesame seeds and peanuts in vitamin B1 content.

With antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-cardiovascular disease role, three high people and coronary heart disease patients for therapeutic good choice, because the skin has a certain maintenance role, but also women's daily diet must.

Chinese medicine believes that cashew nuts taste sweet, flat, non-toxic. It can cure cough, heartburn and thirst. The Materia Medica Gleanings" cloud: cashew nut kernel main thirst, moisturize the lungs, remove annoyance, remove phlegm. The Sea Drugs Materia Medica also said: the main irritability, heart boredom, phlegm, typhoid fever, clearing snot, coughing up air.

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Cashews