Antioxidants have several health benefits to human body too. Due to nutrient dense characteristics of nuts and seeds, they are known to provide several health benefits, such as:
- Helping to maintain your weight.
- Reducing your heart disease risk.
- Several nuts are among dietary plants with highest content of total antioxidants. Of the tree nuts, walnuts, pecans and chestnuts have highest contents of antioxidants.
- Walnuts contain more than 20 mmol antioxidants per 100 g, mostly in walnut pellicles.
- Pecans, chestnuts, peanuts, pistachios, and sunflower seeds are very rich in total antioxidants.
- Hazelnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, macadamias, pine kernels, cashew nuts, flax seeds, poppy seeds, and sesame seeds contain significant amounts of total antioxidants.