How to Eat Nuts

1. The best time to consume nuts. The best time to eat is during meals. This is because eating after meals can cause excessive energy intake throughout the day. Eating nuts during meals is beneficial for enhancing our satiety, especially nuts with high dietary fiber content such as big almonds, small almonds, and hazelnuts, which have the best effect.

2. How to eat nuts. Nuts can be chopped and eaten whole, but each has its own advantages and disadvantages, which vary from person to person. When eating whole almonds, the feeling of fullness is stronger, and the effect of controlling blood sugar rise after meals is better. For example, large almonds have a tight texture and high fiber content, making it difficult to thoroughly chew and grind them, resulting in slow digestion and a slower increase in blood sugar and blood lipids. Breaking and eating may accelerate digestion. If ground into sauce, that's even more so.

Congee with Nuts

Fresh Milk Babao Congee (suitable for babies over 1 year old)

Ingredients: Lotus seeds, red beans, mung beans, Job's tears, dried longan, peanuts, glutinous rice, and raisins in moderation.

Method: 1. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot, bring to a boil, then add lotus seeds, red beans, mung beans, barley peanuts, and glutinous rice. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until sticky and soft. 2. Add dried longans and raisins to the pot, simmer for a while, then pour in the fresh milk and bring to a boil.

Chestnut Congee (suitable for babies over 10 months old)

Ingredients: 1 small bowl of rice Congee, 3 chestnuts, and a little refined salt.

Method: 1. Peel off the outer skin and endothelium of chestnuts and grind them. 2. After the chestnuts are cooked, put them into the rice Congee, stir them evenly, and continue to cook until thoroughly cooked. 3. Add a little refined salt and mix well.

Walnut cheese (suitable for babies over 1 year old)

Ingredients: 15 grams of walnuts, 150 milliliters of fresh milk, 1 teaspoon of sugar, and 2 grams of flour.

Method: 1. Crush the walnuts slightly and place them in the oven until cooked. 2. Heat the fresh milk over low heat, add walnuts, sugar, and flour, and mix well. 3. After cooling, refrigerate for 1 hour.

Cashew nut shrimp (suitable for babies over 2 years old)

Ingredients: 200g shrimp, 50g cashew nuts, 1000g oil (approximately 100g consumed), 30g eggs, appropriate amounts of water, starch, scallions, garlic slices, ginger, sesame oil, broth, cooking wine, vinegar, salt, and monosodium glutamate.

Method: 1. Wash the shrimp, peel off the shrimp, and remove the shrimp line. 2. Knock open the egg, leave the yolk behind, beat until stiff, add salt, cooking wine, and starch, stir well, add the shrimp, and evenly dip in the egg batter. 3. Add oil to the pot, fry the cashews first, wait for the cashews to turn slightly yellow, then remove and set aside. 4. Place the shrimp in an oil pot, stop for a moment and remove, then drain the oil. 5. Place a small amount of oil in the original pot, add scallions, garlic, ginger, cooking wine, vinegar, salt, monosodium glutamate, and a little high soup, pour in shrimp and cashew nuts, stir fry, and finally sprinkle with a little sesame oil to remove from the pot.