Best places to buy nuts and seeds?

Wanderer2010

I have recently started to include more nuts and seeds into my diet in an attempt to eat healthier so I usually pick up a few bags of nut mix in Aldi (containing almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts etc) as well as pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds but I have been told by a few workmates that the only place to buy nuts and seeds is a health store and that shops like Dealz, Aldi etc process the nuts so you are not getting the healthiest product.

Does anyone know how true this is? I certainly have had absolutely BAGS of extra energy after I added a few handfuls of these nuts to my diet so surely buying them anywhere is ok?

Mr. CooL ICE

Try getting them from the baking sections of large shops. These ones are most likely to be unprocessed and cheaper.

Dtp1979

What do Aldi/Lidl do to nuts that health stores don't?

Mellor

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I have been told by a few workmates that the only place to buy nuts and seeds is a health store and that shops like Dealz, Aldi etc process the nuts so you are not getting the healthiest product.

Ask these workmates how exactly they are processed?
Or what different process do health food shops do?

Zillah

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I have been told by a few workmates that the only place to buy nuts and seeds is a health store and that shops like Dealz, Aldi etc process the nuts so you are not getting the healthiest product.

This is exactly the sort of pretentious garbage I would expect from someone who is willing to pay 200% a product's value because it comes from a health food store. I'll get some immune boosting herbs while I'm there I suppose?

What 'processing' could they possibly be doing? You take nuts from the shell, you put them in a bag, you sell the bag. They don't need any processing. Your workmates are idiots. As long as you're not buying the roasted/salted/oily ones you are getting nuts from trees and that's it. Ask your workmates what process (exactly) is being done to these nuts, and why they would do it. They won't have an answer.

Makapakka

As long as they're not salted or spicy nuts, they are as healthy as the ones in the health shop!

ford2600

Just don't go mental with the aldi nuts...

http://sigmanutrition.com/eating-too-many-nuts/

Slydice

Read the ingredients. If it just lists the nuts/seeds, then it's just the nuts/seeds

dastardly00

I normally buy flaxseed, chia seed, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts all in either Lidl or Aldi. They are the cheapest B'n'M store I know of.

tinpib

Asian food shops can be cheap too. I bought almonds there for next to nothing yonks ago.

Wanderer2010

Thanks for the replies guys, when I put it to my workmates it was more a snobbery towards cheap shops than any scientific fact!
I enjoy the mixed nuts but how often should you be eating them? At present I eat 2 generous handfuls of mixed nuts 3 times a week as I read other articles warning not to overdo it just like any food.