Types of nuts

Nuts include almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts. All of them come from trees and grow in a shell.

You can buy them shelled or unshelled. It is just a matter of convenience.

Be careful when you buy them unshelled or in a jar. Usually they have been roasted and salt was added. They are not healthy anymore. Their content in calories has increased by approximately 30 calories per 100 g and there is at least 300 mg difference in the salt content between salted and non-salted nuts.

	Units	Almonds raw	Almonds oil roasted with salt	Almonds dry roasted with salt
Calories	kcal	578	607	597
Fat	g	51	55	53
Sodium	g	1	339	339

Some nuts are ground into butter: almond butter is the most consumed.
Nut butters can be used as a replacement of the butter and jam on breakfast toasts or added to your sandwich.