Roasted and salted nuts!! Ummm! Tasty tasty! Yes, a best snack option, but do you know at the same time it is too much healthy for your hearts?

Nuts are not only the best snack option but it is healthy because it helps enrich with heart-healthy fats, proteins, essential vitamins, and minerals. Nuts are widely used and consumed by people in their day to day life. Be it kheer, pulao, salads, smoothies, we love adding nuts to these to make them more delicious, but we are totally unaware that we are adding nutritional benefit to our food.

Munching nuts in the required amount is prominent for our healthy heart as it effectively lowers the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or bad cholesterol levels in the body, thereby reducing the risk of plaque build-up in the blood vessels.

Minerals and nutrient found in nuts help reduces the risk of blood clots and hence prevents fatal heart blockage or heart attacks. They are enriched with arginine and amino acid that relaxes constricted blood vessels and eases blood flow.

Here are five nuts and their benefits mentioned that a person must include in their daily diet just to enhance the healthy functioning heart! 

Almonds!!

These nuts are rich in protein, fiber, vitamin E, magnesium, and healthy fats. They help lower the cholesterol level in your body, prevent obesity and reduce the risk of heart ailments. It is suggested to eat at least five soaked almonds in the morning before breakfast.

Walnut!! 

These nuts are overloaded with the benefits of Omega 3 fatty acids, phytosterols and antioxidants. They help reduce the blood pressure, eases blood-flow and reduce heart blocks.

Hazelnut!! 

These nuts are rich in oleic acid, magnesium, calcium, vitamins B and E and many other essential nutrients, including hazelnut in your daily diet will help you reduce bad cholesterol and promote proper circulation of blood.

Pistachio!!

The goodness of fiber and protein aid in lowering high blood pressure and improving heart’s disease and improving heart’s response in stressful conditions.

Thank You!!