If nuts are so healthy, nutritious and good for you, why do they have such high nutritional scores?

Question

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

Answer 1

Fat is not bad. There are “good fats” and “bad fats” (like fried oil). Nuts are generally full of “good fats”, they also have a ton of proteins too (which you left out of your post, I don’t know why). They’re very energy dense (meaning, they have a lot of calories in a small portion), so they’re not good for you in the specific case of you wanting to lose weight. They’re fine otherwise, even very good if you’re into body building and you’re bulking.

Also I’m not sure why you’re equating having a high percentage of daily intake to a bad thing. It’s just means that a specific food as a lot of fat/protein/carbs/other…