Dried Fruits

PercivalHackworth
PercivalHackworth Posts: 1,437 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
A small post about dried fruits, which are fantastic, when you know how to eat them.

Dried fruits are an excellent source of natural energy. They are nutrient-dense food for doping the organism, and boost you the whole year. Many people don't have them into their diet, due to their high-caloric density (mmm I remember my nut binges :) ), the dried fruits can help you to prevent some vitamins defficiencies, and others elements, as phosphor, or potassium.
Excellent for Vitality, dried fruits have some antioxidants virtues, which could help against skin-agging.

Nut
It's rich in essentials fat acids, Omega-3, which stimulate the cardiovascular system. It also contains E-vitamin, but most importantly B-vitamin, necessary for the nervous system. Finally it contains copper and zinc, which have anti-infectious properties. The only thing you'd watch is for some people, nuts can cause mouth-ulcers

Hazelnut
It's a very rich in omega-3 nut, fantastic for fighting the bad cholesterol, it's also an E-vitamin-bomb :)
It helps against the cells agging. Hazelnuts are also rich in B-vitamins. we usually advice it against ENT.
We also find in it's composition copper which helps fighting rheumatisms, iron against anemia, magnesium against stress and phosphor against intellectual fatigue.


Cashew
It's the anarcadia's fruit (cashew tree), a tropical shrub. It's the reason why cashews are also named "anarcads". We find the cashews trees in South America and in Asia. Cashews are a nice source of potassium, phosphor and zinc.
It contains B-vitamins and E-vitamins, which are both excellent for our heart. Asian people mix it with water since a ancestral times, in order to use every nutrient cashew contains.

Almond
It's a fantastic natural calcium source, it can helps to prevent calcium defficiencies for people who don't digest milk and it's derived products. It is also fulled with proteins, helping vegetarians against essentials amino-acid defficiencies. It's a nut which helps in intellectual developpment and fertility.

Chesnut
Rich in Potassium, they replenish the potassium levels after a muscular work, we usually advice that dried fruit to sportsmen after an intensive activity. It also contains manganese, which helps fighting free radicals, copper against anemia, and complex carbs for sportsmen, because intensive trainnings do consume these elementaries elements.

Dried abricots
Rich in beta-caroten, excellent for sight, dried-abricots also have antioxydants virtues. Rich in potassium, iron and carbs ; dried-abricots are an excellent snack for an intensive trainning. We also use dried-abricot against anemia and asthma

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  • BIGJIMMYU
    BIGJIMMYU Posts: 1,221 Member
    Not being too well schooled on these, someone told me the sugar content is extremely high in dried fruit. Even moreso than non dried fruit. Is this true?
  • sabinecbauer
    sabinecbauer Posts: 250 Member
    Not being too well schooled on these, someone told me the sugar content is extremely high in dried fruit. Even moreso than non dried fruit. Is this true?

    In a word, yes. Some dried fruit (when eaten in moderation) have properties that make up for that--e.g. dried prunes are very high in fiber and will get things moving nicely--but generally speaking, the sugar content is to be regarded with caution.
  • Melysa1988
    Melysa1988 Posts: 81 Member
    i love dried mango!
  • PercivalHackworth
    PercivalHackworth Posts: 1,437 Member
    Oh, I'll digg that, so I could update the topic :)
    thanks
  • PercivalHackworth
    PercivalHackworth Posts: 1,437 Member
    Maybe that could interest some people ahah
    fricking timezones :laugh:
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    I love all of these... its just tough to not dump in a bunch of the 'dried pineapple' which kind of seems like a sugar chunk O_O
  • theartichoke
    theartichoke Posts: 816 Member
    Bump. Thank you!
  • LovesGG
    LovesGG Posts: 241 Member
    A lot of these are calorie dense as well for those trying to gain weight... they should eat a bunch of these (and when I say a bunch I mean like at least a pound if this stuff a day). But if you're trying to lose weight just eat them in moderation (like 1-4 oz).
  • doinitforme2012
    doinitforme2012 Posts: 98 Member
    Not being too well schooled on these, someone told me the sugar content is extremely high in dried fruit. Even moreso than non dried fruit. Is this true?

    only if they are processed. say you buy a food dehydrator, they would be exactly the same nutrition and calorie wise as fresh fruit. it's all about how the fruit is processed. shop smart and read labels/ nutrition facts.
  • pdworkman
    pdworkman Posts: 1,342 Member
    There is the same amount of sugar in a dried fruit as in the whole fruit, but because the fruit has been dehydrated, it is a much more concentrated sugar source, and you tend to eat more at a time.

    For example, same amount of sugar in a grape and in a raisin, but if you eat half a cup of raisins, there is far more sugar there than in half a cup of grapes.

    Not being too well schooled on these, someone told me the sugar content is extremely high in dried fruit. Even moreso than non dried fruit. Is this true?
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