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Last Updated on April 21, 2021
Nuts have become a very trendy snack over the past few years due to the growing concern about healthy food. They’ve become famous, especially after a few popular Instagrammers in the “healthy lifestyle” category started to share the fact that they were incorporating them into their diet. And there’s a good reason for that. Nuts truly are a great option for a mid-day snack, far better than other prepacked meals filled with absurd amounts of processed sugars. But considering the great variety of nuts available on the market all year round, you should know exactly which nut types are good for you. Nuts allow you to get creative in the kitchen as you can add them to many different types of food, or even make them the key ingredient – like in the chestnut cake, for instance. Using nuts as a Greek yogurt topping, for example, is a creative way of adding nutritional value to your breakfast that has been winning over a lot of people. Warning: since the number of people with a nut allergy and especially peanut allergy is rapidly growing, it’s worth mentioning some of its causes and effects so that you can quickly identify it and go to your doctor for a more in-depth diagnosis. Nut allergy occurs when the system of an allergic person comes into contact with nuts – sometimes, all it takes is being close to someone who is eating nuts. The immune system reacts to the allergen and triggers a reaction that can range from very moderate to life-threatening. Symptoms of a mild allergic reaction are tingling lips, face swelling, sickness, nettle rash, pain in the abdomen, and a suffocating sensation. A life-threatening reaction may include swelling around the throat and difficulty breathing, dilation of the blood vessels (that can lead to fast heart rate, red skin, low blood pressure), and panic (also commonly referred to as “a sense of impending doom”). Read to know the seven types of nuts you can eat (if you’re not allergic)!
