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Nuts and your heart: Eating nuts for heart health
Can eating nuts help your heart?
What's in nuts that might make them heart healthy?
What amount of nuts is considered healthy?
How might nuts help your heart?
What might make nuts heart healthy?
Does it matter what kind of nuts you eat?
How about nut oils? Are they healthy, too?
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How might nuts help with heart health?
What makes nuts heart healthy?
What's a healthy serving of nuts?
Does it matter what kind of nuts I eat?
How about nut oils? Are they healthy too?
What's in nuts that might make them heart healthy?
What amount of nuts is considered healthy?
How might nuts help your heart?
What might make nuts heart healthy?
Does it matter what kind of nuts you eat?
How about nut oils? Are they healthy, too?
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How might nuts help with heart health?
What makes nuts heart healthy?
What's a healthy serving of nuts?
Does it matter what kind of nuts I eat?
How about nut oils? Are they healthy too?
Does it matter what kind of nuts I eat?
Most nuts are healthy. But some nuts have more heart-healthy nutrients than others. For example, walnuts have high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids.
Almonds, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts and pecans also are heart healthy. So are peanuts — though they are not a nut, but a legume, like beans.
It's best to choose unsalted or unsweetened nuts. Adding salt or sugar to nuts may cancel out their heart-healthy benefits.
Here's some nutrition information on common types of nuts. All calorie and fat content measurements are for 1 ounce, or 28.4 grams (g), of unsalted nuts.
| Type of nut | Calories | Total fat |
|---|---|---|
| Almonds, dry-roasted | 170 | 14.9 g |
| Almonds, raw | 164 | 14.2 g |
| Brazil nuts, raw | 187 | 19 g |
| Cashews, dry-roasted | 163 | 13.1 g |
| Chestnuts, roasted | 70 | 0.6 g |
| Hazelnuts (filberts), dry-roasted | 183 | 17.7 g |
| Hazelnuts (filberts), raw | 178 | 17.2 g |
| Macadamia nuts, dry-roasted | 204 | 21.6 g |
| Macadamia nuts, raw | 204 | 21.5 g |
| Peanuts, dry-roasted | 166 | 14.1 g |
| Pecans, dry-roasted | 201 | 21.1 g |
| Pistachios, dry-roasted | 162 | 13 g |
| Walnuts, halved | 185 | 18.5 g |
