Almonds and hazelnuts

halfgaar · Post by **halfgaar** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 17:27

I have a question about almonds and hazelnuts. Even though we have raw ones, they are shelled. Does that mean they have been heated or quick-frozen to shell them, or is that unnecessary for those nuts? I've been eating a lot of them, and I wonder if I'm consuming dirty proteins by doing so.

halfgaar · Post by **halfgaar** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 17:50

BTW, is freezing "just as bad" as cooking/frying/etc? I would imagine it does less damage. For example, eggs, even human eggs, can be frozen, stored, thawed and fertilized. There are also bacteria which can survive freezing perfectly.

Post by **Oscar** » Sat 15 Mar 2008 00:32

Usually heating is use for the shelling, so yes, you will most likely consume dirty proteins.

Freezing, as far as we know, isn't so bad, but there hasn't been a lot of research done in that area.

halfgaar · Post by **halfgaar** » Sat 15 Mar 2008 00:51

OK, now off to find unshelled hazelnuts and almonds. They seem to be pretty hard to find...

halfgaar · Post by **halfgaar** » Sat 15 Mar 2008 19:11

To continue on this; it appeared that my acne was going away, but it seems that some new pimples are still forming. They're relatively small, but still. Can it be that the consumption of those shelled nuts is the cause?

Post by **Oscar** » Mon 17 Mar 2008 11:39

Yep, could very well be.