Pará Nut
Pará nut also called Brazil nut or vice-versa is a seed of nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa), a typical tree of virgin forests such as Amazon Rainforest, for example. Moreover, Pará nut tree is one of the tallest trees in Amazon, can reach 30 to 45 meters in height. Pará nut (Brazil nut) is a seed from the same oilseeds group like walnuts and almonds. This amazing nut is high in good fats, minerals and phytochemicals, being considered a food of great nutritional value.
It also contains abundant antioxidant substances, especially selenium.
Only one nut provides almost 100 mcg of selenium, that corresponds 150% recommended daily.
The nuts include phenolic and flavonoid compounds and vitamin E, phytosterols and squalene.
As the benefits Pará nut has antioxidant and antiproliferative action which reduces atherosclerosis and cancer risks.
The Brazil nut is also important for a good function of cardiovascular system and still helps lower cholesterol, good immunity and accelarates thyroid metabolism.
Source of potassium the benefits of this nutrient is good for blood pressure control and cardiovascular lowering risk disease, and it also decreases the excretion of calcium through the urine.
Phosphorus is another compenent of this superfood, which is good keeping bones healthy.
This amazing nut also contains high levels of glutathione peroxidase a powerful antioxidant that proposes healthy benefits in many ways, for example.
There are good quantitties of Omega 9.
The antioxidants control free radicals productions and also contribute for immunity, which is reflected in a minimum risk to get cancer.
