Chocolate Covered Macadamias
Continued from Nuts Nutrition: Healthy Nuts.
Chocolate covered macadamias are usually covered with low-grade chocolate and sugar, which reduce their nutritional value.
Does it mean you should you avoid chocolate covered macadamias? Not really. There is nothing wrong with having chocolate covered macadamias from to time, but they should not be a part of your daily diet.
Macadamias: With 40 to 80 times more palmitoleic acid than other nuts, macadamias favorably affect the biomarkers for oxidative stress, thrombosis, and inflammation – risk factors for coronary artery disease.
A Japanese study of healthy female students found that macadamias not only decreased total and LDL cholesterol but also reduced body weight and body mass index.
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