We all know that we need to be aware of what we eat to help maintain our health and weight. Many of us are busy with job, career, or a business to grow, and life in general. Anyone can easily lose focus on the importance of healthy eating and snacking for the sake of saving time or convenience.
Here is one good example of snacking or eating healthy by consuming delicious nuts and or nut butters. Nuts and nut butters are super healthy to eat. These nut butters make great snacks, a sandwich, can add to fruit or veggies as a dip. These nut butters are very versaitile, so use your imagination and taste of how to use these nut butters in your snacks and meals.
There are new varieties popping up on the shelf now, so there are a lot to choose from. For example, there are almond butters, cashew butters, sunflower butter, Brazil nut butter, and the old familiar peanut butter.
Nuts are good for you because nuts contain vitamins and minerals. Nuts also have fiber and protein which helps you feel fuller longer.
Nuts have unsaturated fats in them which are the good healthy fats to consume. The great healthy part of eating nuts and nut butters are these nut butters contain lots of vitamins. Nut butters contain vitamin E, B6, folic acid, niacin, magnesium, zinc, copper and potassium. Which make them great for snacking as just nuts or processed into nut butter.
Before you jump out to purchase some nut butter. Make sure you read the labels. Some flags to look out for are salt, saturated fats, sugars, preservatives on the labels. You want to go as natural as possible, so try to avoid those ingredients in your nut butters. If the nut butter does not need to be stirred, there is a high proboaility the nut butter has unhealthy oils in the butter,so watch out for that. Natural nut butters will have oils floating on the top of the nut butter inside the jar. Stirring will be needed, but the taste and quality will be well worth it.
If you have a little time, are adventurous, and a good food processor, you can make these nut butters yourself at home. By making your own nut butter at home, you can control the ingredients in your nut butters and have some fun in the kitchen as well as save bank. Research online for some great recipes to make these nut butters yourself in your kitchen.
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