Everyone has heard about delicious and healthy almonds. Their calorific value is relatively low, so those who are on a diet do not interfere with familiarizing themselves with the information.
For starters - general information about almonds. Almonds are a drupe fruit with a wrinkled or smooth surface cracking during ripening. It is often considered a nut, although in reality almonds are a stone fruit. Almond trees reach a height of about 8 meters; during flowering, white or light pink flowers appear on them. The fruits have a sweet or bitter aftertaste. Almonds are of two types - sweet and bitter. There is still blue almond, this is a rarer variety.
100 grams of these nuts contain: 5 grams of water, 22 grams of protein, 50 grams of fat, 22 grams of carbohydrates, B vitamins (namely B1, B3, B2, B6, B5 and B9), vitamin E and various minerals - iron , potassium, phosphorus, magnesium and calcium. All of these data are for raw almonds. Due to the content of vitamin E, almonds have a positive effect on people suffering from anemia, insomnia, convulsions and eye diseases.
How many calories are in almonds? This question excites those people who want to make their food as healthy as possible, but in no case do not want to get fat. Nuts and drupes are quite high-calorie fruits. Almonds are also no exception, with calories of approximately 575 calories per 100 grams of product.
Almonds are very widely used in cooking. It is eaten both fresh and dried. It is salted and fried in vegetable oil. Then roasted and salted almonds are served with some drinks. Almonds are most commonly known as spice, which is added to a variety of dough products, chocolate products, liquors, various sweets and so on. In the manufacture of various wines, liquors and other alcoholic products, not only the nut itself, but also its shell is used. It is added in order to improve the color of the drink and its aroma.
Almond is very important as a spice in Chinese and Indonesian culinary - there it is used together with citrus fruits as an additive to dishes of rice and fried poultry. But in cooking only sweet almonds are used, bitter is not a good seasoning.
Almonds are also used in folk medicine. Almonds are useful for high or low acidity of gastric juice, gastric ulcer. People suffering from such diseases should eat this fruit once or twice a day, each time eating at least ten pieces of nuts. Almonds should be consumed in this way for about a month. Children are also prescribed to eat almonds for medicinal purposes with stunting, to maintain activity. This is most relevant at an early age.
With pleurisy, cough, hemoptysis or sore throat, you can fry almonds with sugar and take it inside - it helps a lot, since it also has anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.
From almonds, you can even make a simple face scrub. You just need to mix the crushed dry almonds with oatmeal and egg white. It will turn out a natural remedy, made by yourself, which you can’t buy at the same time in any pharmacy.
Another aspect is calories. Almonds contain in 30 grams 163 kilocalories. Also, 30 grams of almonds (this is one tablespoon) contains about 14 grams of fat and 4 grams of fiber. A glass of almond with a volume of 250 milliliters weighs about 165 grams and contains 1,005 kilocalories. A glass with a volume of 200 milliliters weighs about 130 grams and contains 792 kilocalories. Almonds, whose calorific value is average among nuts, are not contraindicated, and even vice versa, recommended for those people who monitor their weight and figure or "diet" and adhere to strict food restrictions. Despite the average calorie content and fatty acid content, almonds do not gain excess weight, paradoxical as it sounds. Thus, almonds cannot become a forbidden product for losing weight: its caloric content allows you to eat up to 25-30 kernels of nuts per day and at the same time not to be afraid for your figure.