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This may be a dumb question, but what the heck. Im beginning to bulk again and have been eating alot of almonds for my P+F meals, and although i do like almonds, it gets a little old after a while. Tonight i decided to do a healthy version of candied almonds. I rinsed off the salt and put them in a pan for a few minutes on low heat with some FF butter spray and splenda. They were awesome, but i didnt know if doing that affected the nutritional benefit at all of almonds. Its tough sometimes to hit 4000+ calories per day and almonds (especially if they taste damn good like this) make it a whole lot easier.
I'd be interested to see if there was any affect because hell they do sound good!
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Yeah, I can't see where adding splenda and spray butter would do anything to the nutritional value. I'm gonna try it too [img]smile.gif[/img] Sounds good.
Welcome back AS (if this is the AS from MH)! Good luck on the bulk.
Those splenda coated almonds sound pretty good. Don't worry about screwing up the nutrition. Roasted almonds have almost identical nutrition to raw ones.
Plus, here's a study showing that raw, roasted, and roasted almond butter all have the same health effects:
Effects of Plant-Based Diets High in Raw or Roasted Almonds, or Roasted Almond Butter on Serum Lipoproteins in Humans
Gene A. Spiller, PhD, CNS, FACN, Anna Miller, MS, RD, Karla Olivera, MS, RD, Julie Reynolds, RD, Beverly Miller, RD, Stanley J. Morse, PhD, Antonella Dewell, MS, RD and John W. Farquhar, MD
Sphera Foundation (G.A.S., A.M., K.O., J.R., B.M., S.J.M., A.D.), Los Altos
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University (J.W.F.), Stanford, California
Objective: To compare the lipid-altering effect of roasted salted almonds and roasted almond butter with that of raw almonds, as part of a plant-based diet.
Methods: Thirty-eight free-living, hypercholesterolemic men (n = 12) and women (n = 26) with a mean total serum cholesterol (TC) of 245 + 29 mg/dL (mean + SD) followed a heart-healthy diet including 100g of one of three forms of almonds: roasted salted almonds, roasted almond butter or raw almonds for four weeks. Measurements of serum TC, triglycerides (TG), selected lipoproteins and blood pressure were taken at baseline and after four weeks.
Results: All three forms of almonds in the context of a heart-healthy diet significantly lowered low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL) from baseline to the completion of the study. Both raw and roasted almonds significantly lowered TC, whereas the decrease by almond butter (in a smaller cohort) did not reach statistical significance. High-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL) did not significantly change with raw or roasted almonds but slightly increased with almond butter. At the end of the study, blood pressure did not change significantly from baseline values for any of the groups.
Conclusion: These results suggest that unblanched almonds—whether raw, dry roasted, or in roasted butter form—can play an effective role in cholesterol-lowering, plant-based diets.
hey John, yeah its me and my whopping 28 posts [img]smile.gif[/img] I don't really post much, but im on the board browsing around every day.
Im about ready to start S2B, im trying to eventually get back into the shape i was a couple years ago. Im not exactly scrawny but i finished the book today and am excited about giving it a try after coming off a little cutting phase. I took 4 or 5 servings of these splenda coated almonds to work with me today and they were 100 times easier to eat than normal.
I put a little Parkay butter spray over the almonds in a pan on medium low heat, then sprinkled some splenda over them, stirred them around. After a minute or so i put another spray or two and some more splenda and stirred. If you leave it on the stove for 3-4 minutes and let them cool, the almonds become a little bit soft when you bite into them, but have a crispy sweet texture on the outside. They tasted like candy to me today (compared to what i usually eat).
Thanks for the study John, i just wanted to make sure i wasnt doing something dumb to my diet.
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