A bowl of salted nuts isn't the only way to get your nut nutrition.
So think outside the peanut bowl and try baking with this: Pecan Flour.
Nut flours are a great way to pack nutrition into muffins, waffles, breads, and more.
And a new study shows that pecan meal may be especially helpful in boosting heart-healthy antioxidants.
Heart-Protecting Pecans
In a small study of men and women, eating a test meal made of whole or ground pecans produced some pretty amazing benefits over another meal that contained the same number of calories but was made with refined ingredients.
The pecan meal resulted in significantly higher blood concentrations of antioxidants and even doubled the participants' blood levels of gamma-tocopherol -- a form of vitamin E.
What's more, 3 hours after eating the test meal made of whole pecans, the men and women had significantly lower blood levels of oxidized LDL - the stuff that nicks and wears away artery walls.
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