I have ordered practically every Food to Live product, some of them - many times over. This is one of those very rare products ... Read More
I have ordered practically every Food to Live product, some of them - many times over. This is one of those very rare products of which can be said, with absolute veracity, that there have been no disappointments. The packaging is not something that I would normally begging a review with, but in the case of nuts and seeds it is a very important consideration. Nuts and seeds can be of the very best quality, and you can pay a fortune for them, but with inferior packaging - you are left with a rancid, and off-tasting sack of useless substances. For to Live will never leave you in the lurch there. Nice, thick, sacks, superb zip-lock closure, you precious little bites of heaven are more than safely preserved.These Food to Live pistachios quite different of the redA-dyed, salted, and slightly shriveled IMiddle-Eastern Pistachios of old. This is an entirely new era in the world of Pistachios. These examples are raw, with no shells at all to worry about, and have the sweetest, purest, and sweetest taste of any Pistachio that it will ever be your good luck to savor.Pistachios are one of the more amazing of Nature's productions. The amount of health benefits arising from a small serving of these nuts is simply not to be believed. People in the past had been indoctrinated into finding must unhealthy, to at all the case when considering the modern offering which is raw, unsalted, and not roasted in some form of grease. As an example, this particular nut, the pistachio, offers ( Per 1 ounce, 49 nut serving.) more than 10% of your daily fiber recommendation, an extremely important part of your daily colon health regime. When considering that your obtain more dietary fiber from the serving than 1/2 cup serving of spinach of broccoli, this is definitely and important fact to consider..Pistachios have been discovered to provide such healthy offerings of protein , minerals, and vitamins, that they are on par with chicken. pork, and other foods widely considered to be healthy. They add nutritional values in the form of their oil, which is on par with the monounsaturated oil found in the widely known, and quite revered oil of the olive.For too many years, the Pistachio has been under-served by an unjustly, and incorrectly assumed rumor eindicating a food contributing little to the nutritional needs of a human being. Upon delving more deeply into the history and nutritional make-up of the Pistachio, it is plain that this is not a food to be scoffed at, or to be at all dissuaded from consuming. Far from it, these nuts contribute a good deal of valuable nutrition to a carefully planned diet.I have been ill, and not able to consume all of the foods that I would like to be able to consume. I did not feel that gaining all of my nutrients from an overly full shelf of vitamin bottles was particularly the wisest course to follow for my own maintenance of a reasonably healthy. Body. My husband and I began to manufacture what, for want of a better word, I will call Smoothies. Although our concoctions Stthese bea no resemblance whatsoever to the standard blend of overly sweetened fruit juice masquerading under the same name..We begin with bananas, coconutnut, various whey-based protein mixes. Many types of fruits p, a variety of Pistachios, Macadamia, Pecan, Walnut, and many other organic, non- GMO Macadamia, Almond, Hemp, or other such healthful and tasty drinks , to fabricate a mixture which can be made by turns velvety smooth, or deliciously chewy and chunky.I highly recommend this particular brand of Pistachio to be incorporated into, and used as part of a healthful diet. You will not regret it. Read Less