It Safe Menu Planner FoodFit Profile Search for healthy and delicious recipes by type of food, season, meal, etc. Talk about it in FoodFit's Community . Try nuts in these FoodFit Recipes . Nuts Pass the nuts. After falling out of fashion because they're fatty, nuts are getting a second look.
Nuts can add crunch to a green salad, pizzazz to a pasta dish and flavor to baked goods.
Nuts are full of monounsaturated fats , which can help lower your cholesterol, and polyunsaturated fats , which can help prevent heart disease. Plus, nuts are a good source of protein , calcium , phosphorus , zinc , copper , selenium , folate , vitamin E and vitamin A . That means if you sprinkle nuts on top of your pasta, leave off the cheese. Or if you're tossing nuts into a salad, choose fat-free dressings and add smaller amounts of meat, fish or poultry. Stretch out the snack by mixing the nuts with dried fruit.