6 Good reasons to eat dry fruits daily

When it's warm and the appetite is reduced it is easy to modify so not adapted its power. Dry nuts help us to remain balanced and complete nutrition not only for its high heat resistance, making it a handy snack to take with you, but also for the high concentration of nutrients:

1. Dietary fiber, especially insoluble, with antioxidant, bulking intestine and with demonstrated anti-cancer action. Cashews, almonds, coconut and pecans are the types of dried fruits rich in fiber.
2. Essential fatty acids, omega 3 and omega 6 series The right balance between these two types of fatty acids (found in all nuts, but particularly in nuts) by acting on cholesterol metabolism and regulating the states of inflammation of ' body, it becomes an instrument of prevention of significant cardiovascular disease.

3. Vegetable proteins (especially peanuts and almonds), iron (in pistachios and cashews), copper (in all nuts) and zinc (in cashews and walnuts). By virtue of these substances the dried fruit is a candidate, alongside the legumes, substitute for food of animal origin (meat, fish, eggs) in vegetarian diets or those who simply want to have a more varied and healthy diet.

4. Vitamin E (in particular in almonds, and hazelnuts). It is a fat-soluble vitamin with antioxidant and protective action against degenerations of each, any type, be they diseases or aging

5. Potassium (in all nuts; regulates fluid balance, blood pressure and nerve transmission), magnesium (in almonds and cashews; participates in bone mineralization mechanisms in muscle metabolism, and nerve transmission and acts effectively in conditions of stress or mood improving it), calcium (especially almonds, plays a key role in bone mineralization), phosphorus (in all nuts, contributes mostly to ensure bone mineralization along with calcium, and is involved in many metabolic processes), niacin (in all nuts, is involved in the metabolic processes that affect the utilization of nutrients), selenium (in cashews and walnuts, is a mineral with antioxidant function or, as is fashionable to say , antiaging), folic acid (walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts; participates in processes that regulate genetic and metabolic level various functions of the body). It is minerals of which it is easy to have an increased requirement (eg. Magnesium in case of stress, folic acid during pregnancy, calcium during growth) or, even in this case, which may be deficient in vegan or vegetarian diets, elimination .

6. Phytosterols that contribute to intestinal absorption, limiting it, cholesterol. Recall that the plant phytosterols have a sense if introduced through natural foods, because they are in the right quantities and work synergistically with other substances present in the same food.

A quantity of dried fruits equivalent to 15-20 grams a day, maybe taken after a meal or as a snack accompanied by a fresh fruit, is an acceptable dose even when you have no appetite and can enrich our supply of nutrients.

The only attention should be paid to the allergenicity: it is important to be certain you do not have allergies to some kind of dried fruit, and still vary the type ingested to avoid getting into more contact with the same allergen, the risk awareness.