Am I Nuts?

[BRUMI1968]

I just read that many nuts can go rancid within a week of being removed from their shells. This is mostly the more oily nuts such as walnuts and pecans, etc.

There is zero possibility that store bought nuts out of their shells are less than one week old.

On top of that, shelled nuts (and seeds by the way) should be refrigerated to keep their oils from going rancid again, often in as little time as a couple weeks. I only know of one store I've ever been to that kept them in the refer, and they probably got them from a place that didn't.

I bring this up because we often find we have a hard time digesting nuts. I'm suggesting that inflammation of all sorts can be caused by eating rancid oils - and if we eat nuts that we buy outside the shell, we are most suredly eating rancid oils. If there are some of us who are "doing everything right" but who are still bloated or not quite on top of it, AND we eat lots of nuts, we might want to consider this.

I'm going to call the nut butter companies I utilize and ask them if they use shelled nuts/seeds in their products, or if they shell/hull them in their facility.

I'll post what I find for those who are interested.

[ShayFL]

This company does things right. Fresh....cold storage.

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Rancidity has both a smell and a taste. I cannot explain the smell. But once you have smelled rancid oil, you will recognize it EVERYTIME. And the taste is both unpleasant and when you chew it and hold it on your tongue for a minute you get a kinda buzzy/burny feeling.....it is rancid. Spit it out!

And this company sells very fresh climate controlled nuts/nut butters. I have spoken with them and here is no sharing of equipment with any glutinous grains. The only thing they sell with gluten is Kamut and it comes prepackaged from the processing plant. They dont even open them. So there are no cross contamination issues.

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All nuts/seeds/oils/nut butters should be stored in the refrigerator or freezer. 6 months in the fridge. A year in the freezer.

[parla]

ugh! i am just chomping on some trail mix that I bought out of the vending machine at work. I don't even want to think how old they are!