For example, the Nutrition labelling: Calories and Reference Intake (RI) on the front of my bag score as follows:
– Energy: 630kj/151kcal
– Fat: 9.5g (14%)
– Saturates: 0.9g (5%)
– Sugars: 10.7g (12%)
– Salt: <0.01g (<1%)
In: 0
You need to forget this division of foods into “healthy” and “unhealthy”.
Unless we’re talking about some heavily processed crap, there are no “healthy” and “unhealthy” foods. Pretty much every whole (unprocessed) food may have a role in one’s diet, and therefore contribute to your good health.
Chicken is not healthy. Tuna is not healthy. Peanut butter is not healthy. Broccoli, apples, spinach, bananas, beef, almonds, oats or beans aren’t healthy either.
They’re all just foods with different nutritional values.
What makes you healthy or unhealthy is your overall diet coupled with your activity level (because your activity partly determines how much food you need and how your body uses it). Your body needs a certain amount of nutrients and energy to function correctly. You’ll be unhealthy if you take too many or not enough of some over long periods of time.
The thing with nuts is the fact that they are rich in fat, which means they are pretty calorie dense, so it’s easy to eat too much of it (especially in form of butter where it’s more difficult to get a sense of how much you’ve actually eaten), which is why it is usually not recommended. That doesn’t mean it’s “unhealthy”, though.
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