Nuts are essential to a healthy living because they are full of good fats, which is good for the heart, hair and nails. It is important to eat a small amount of nuts everyday, but do not eat too much of it since it has a lot of calories. Nuts include peanuts, macadam nuts, almonds, cashews, pistachio, etc.

Brazil nut is a good source of selenium, magnesium and thiamine. These nuts has one of the highest fat content of all nuts, which is around 67%. Around four brazil nuts totals 100 calories.

Pistachio nut is a great source of vitamin B6, copper and manganese. It also has a lot of fibers in it.

As for macadamia nut oil, it can be used to cook meat or to replace vegetable oil in recipes. It is said to be the finest oil available and it is full of monoinsutared fats, a kind of fat good for the heart.

Nuts used in a banana nut bread recipe are usually walnuts or pecans. So, if you want to do this recipe, be sure you have these nuts!

Be careful if you invite people over, they might suffer from nut allergy.


Finally, if you want to eat a Chinese meal, why don't you try the cashew nut chicken. It is a mix of chicken, cashew nuts, soya sauce, green onions, rice, garlic and ginger. Recipes can be found on the Internet.