We all know that often eat nuts benefits, such as walnuts is the "king of antioxidants", can help delay aging; sunflower seeds can protect the elasticity of blood vessels; peanuts have an anti-tuberculosis effect; almonds can regulate the level of blood glucose ...... Therefore, a lot of people Take them as snacks, chatting, watching TV like to come to the point, a food can not stop, it is easy to eat more.
Everything is "too much", small nuts, eat more, the same big problem. What do you need to pay attention to when you eat nuts?
According to the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2016)", it is recommended that residents should consume 25-35g of soy nuts per day (about a small handful).
Nuts eat more harm
1 blood sugar fluctuations
Nuts, although containing a large number of vitamins, proteins, trace elements and other nutrients, but contains a lot of fat content.
As the saying goes, "one or two peanuts, one or two oil, one or two melon seeds, two or two oil"; plus, some nuts also contain starch, sugar and other carbohydrates.
If you eat too much, it is easy to cause the rise of blood sugar.
2 aggravate the burden on the stomach and intestines
Nuts eat too much not only affect the blood sugar, but also easy to raise blood lipids, increase the burden on the stomach and intestines. Like chestnuts, peanuts, melon seeds, etc., itself is difficult to be digested by the body, eating too much is easy to flatulence.
Suggestions: It is best to eat a small handful of nuts before lunch, both to supplement energy, but also to increase the sense of satiety; children, the elderly in the consumption of nuts before you can be crushed, not only to facilitate chewing, but also easy to digest.
3 aggravate diarrhea
Nuts rich in dietary fiber and oil can play the role of laxative, therefore, there are symptoms of diarrhea and acute infections of the digestive tract symptoms of the people, should not eat nuts for the time being, otherwise it is easy to aggravate the symptoms of diarrhea.
4 fire
Nuts more through baking, stir-frying and other methods of making, and will add a lot of salt and other seasonings, which is easy to cause the mouth and throat dry, resulting in sores and canker sores.
5 high blood pressure
Fried nuts in the process, many businesses tend to add a lot of salt, MSG and other seasonings, so that it becomes high sodium food, too much intake, will lead to an imbalance of potassium and sodium in the body, resulting in increased blood pressure, inducing a series of complications.
6 blood stasis
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, fried food after processing belongs to the dry type of food, will burn the fluid, slowing down the blood flow, resulting in blood stasis. After the blood stasis blocks the meridians, it may gradually develop into unstable angina.
Tips: eat about 30 grams of nuts a day, if you accidentally eat more, you have to reduce the amount of oil and diet three meals a day.
Fried stall nuts hide crisis
Many people buy these nuts like to go to the fried stalls to buy, think just fried out of the fresher, more flavorful to eat, but do not know, these nuts may be hidden behind a lot of health traps!
1 flavor
It is not difficult to find, now on the market nut flavors are endless. Salt baked, charcoal grilled, cream and so on, some even have color!
Different flavors of nuts, which means the addition of other ingredients, additives.
While they are all within the standard range, too much of them can be detrimental to the human body, especially some disease patients should beware.
Therefore, it is recommended that you choose the original flavor is better.
2 fried nuts
Nuts contain a lot of fat, protein, carbohydrates and other foods, ordinary heating generally does not destroy these substances.
But if the nuts are fried, then these nutrients that are originally good for our body will be transformed into carcinogenic substances such as benzopyrene. So try not to eat fried nuts.
3 paraffin wax processed nuts
In order to make the nuts look better and preserve them for a longer period of time, some merchants will smear some paraffin wax on the processed nuts.
After frying, it will produce some harmful metal substances, too much consumption will be harmful to health, and even the risk of cancer!
Nuts smeared with paraffin wax look especially shiny and require vigilance.
4 moldy nuts
Nuts directly outside the loose weighing sales, very easy to moisture mold, producing a substance called aflatoxin. This substance is highly toxic and can seriously jeopardize our health.
If you find moldy nuts or eat them in your mouth with a bitter, pungent taste, spit them out and rinse your mouth.
Tips: nuts are best eaten as you go, packed in a sealed environment, the temperature should be controlled below 15 ℃, you can also directly buy small packages of nuts.
5 have a bad taste of nuts
Nuts stored improperly or for a long time, the fatty acids in them will oxidize, so that the nuts have a bad taste not to mention that it will also produce aldehydes, ketones, light cause diarrhea, heavy induce liver and heart disease.
Buy nuts to pay attention to
Nuts can not casually eat, the same can not casually buy, buy need to pay attention to:
1 regular shopping malls
Generally speaking, the choice of regular manufacturers of large brands of nuts more secure, buy be sure to look at the packaging on the label to see clearly the date of production, shelf life and other product identification.
Bulk, openings, roadside stalls of melon seeds try not to buy.
2 look at the appearance
Pistachio: pistachio shells are generally yellowish; green nuts are fresher than yellow; natural openings of the cracks are large, can not be completely closed.
Almonds: almonds seed skin is light yellowish brown, particles are uniform and large, full of fat and glossy, not oil is good.
Walnuts: walnuts should be even in size, the suture line should be tight and heavy; shell white and glossy.
Pine nuts: pine nuts should be selected glossy color, light brown shell color, hard and brittle shell, the inner kernel is easy to come out, large and uniform grains, full shell shape.
3 processing less
Non-multiple processing of nuts with fewer additives, it is easier to find out whether the deterioration, and the nutrients are relatively more retained.