Raw Organic Almonds Are Rawsome
Here at Creative Health Institute we use almonds in many of our recipes and almost daily as we make fresh almond milk which is a mainstay in our diets. We highly recommend eating and using only raw organic almonds. Raw organic almonds taste better and you’ll get more food value for your money. Never eat roasted, glazed, boiled, cooked or salted almonds as their fats will be rancid and almonds which have been cooked in anyway above 120 degrees are lifeless and devoid of many of the nutrients which make them such a wonderful food when they are eaten in their natural state.
Raw Organic Almonds Are A Protein Powerhouse
A quarter-cup of raw organic almonds contain 7.62 grams of protein. more protein than is provided by the typical egg, which contains 5.54 grams. Protein: 1.58 g – The recommended daily protein requirements for humans are derived from “ideal body weight”. The ideal body weight is calculated based on height and varies slightly for men and women. Our protein requirements can also be expressed in terms of total caloric intake.
The world health organization and many national health agencies have independently conducted studies, which (even though they differ slightly) all conclude our daily protein requirement should be between 10% to 15% of our daily caloric intake.
Get To Know Your Almonds
The almond that we think of as a nut is technically the seed of the fruit of the almond tree, a medium-size tree that bears fragrant pink and white flowers. Like its cousins, the peach, cherry and apricot trees, the almond tree bears fruits with stone-like seeds (or pits) within. The seed of the almond fruit is what we refer to as the almond nut.
Eating Almonds Will Help You Loose Weight
A recent 28 month study of how raw organic almonds affect our health and involving 8,865 adult men and women in Spain, found that participants who ate nuts at least two times per week were 31% less likely to gain weight than were participants who never or almost never ate nuts.
Researchers organized 20 women into 2 groups: the almond group and the control group.
The almond group consumed 344 calories worth of almonds (about 2 oz.) each day, while keeping the rest of their diet exactly the same. The control group simply stuck to their normal eating habits without including any almonds at all. During this 23 week study, doctors kept track of the participants’ body weight, metabolic rates, physical activity, and Vitamin E blood levels. The results were quite surprising:
- A daily serving of almonds can help you feel full without leading to weight gain.
- The almond group also benefited from an increase in several important vitamins and nutrients found in almonds:
- Vitamin E – In addition to their cholesterol-lowering effects, almonds’ ability to reduce heart disease risk may also be partly due to the antioxidant action of the vitamin found in the almonds, as well as to the LDL-lowering effect of almonds’ monounsaturated fats. (LDL is the form of cholesterol that has been linked to atherosclerosis and heart disease). When almonds are substituted for more traditional fats in human feeding trials, LDL cholesterol can be reduced from 8 to 12%.
- Potassium – an important electrolyte involved in nerve transmission and the contraction of all muscles including the heart, is another mineral that is essential for maintaining normal blood pressure and heart function. Almonds promote your cardiovascular health by providing 257 mg of potassium and only 0.3 mg of sodium, making almonds an especially good choice to in protecting against high blood pressure and atherosclerosis.
Similar studies have shown that subjects can consume up to 570 calories worth of almonds per day without leading to weight gain.
- Almonds all help reduce spikes in blood sugar when combined with high-carbohydrate meals. Lessening after-meal surges in blood sugar helps protect against diabetes and cardiovascular disease, most likely by lessening the increase in cholesterol-damaging free radicals that accompanies large elevations in blood sugar. This is one reason why low- glycemic index diets result in lower risk of diabetes and heart disease.
- Almonds appear to not only decrease after-meal rises in blood sugar, but also provide antioxidants to mop up the smaller amounts of free radicals that still result. (Jenkins DJ, Kendall CW, Journal of Nutrition)
Five large human epidemiological studies, including the Nurses Health Study, the Iowa Health Study, the Adventist Health Study and the Physicians Health Study, all found that nut consumption is linked to a lower risk for heart disease.
Researchers who studied data from the Nurses Health Study estimated that substituting nuts for an equivalent amount of carbohydrate in an average diet resulted in a 30% reduction in heart disease risk. Researchers calculated even more impressive risk reduction–45%–when fat from nuts was substituted for saturated fats (found primarily found in meat and dairy products). Creative Health Institute will continue to prepare almonds in many forms to so as to make sure our guests have the best nutrients including protein.
Wishing you a blessed and healthful life,
Robert Morgan – Bobby
Union City, Michigan
866-426-1213
Almond Nutrients
| Nutrient |
Amount |
DV
(%) |
Nutrient
Density |
World’s Healthiest
Foods Rating |
| Manganese- |
0.90 mg |
45.0 |
3.9 |
very good |
| vitamin E |
8.97 mg |
44.9 |
3.9 |
very good |
| magnesium |
98.67 mg |
24.7 |
2.2 |
good |
| tryptophan |
0.07 g |
21.9 |
1.9 |
good |
| copper |
0.40 mg |
20.0 |
1.7 |
good |
| vitamin B2 (riboflavin) |
0.30 mg |
17.6 |
1.5 |
good |
| phosphorus |
168.70 mg |
16.9 |
1.5 |
good |
