seattle prattle wrote:
Your best bet, if you can afford it, is to eat a variety of nuts and legumes (in that the peanut is a legume, not a nut, as another poster correctly noted).
Peanuts are inexpensive relative to nuts, and have a lot of good nutrients. Sesame Seeds i find are another low cost, nutritious alternative.
Almonds are particularly high in antioxidants.
Pumkin seeds kick your magnesium levels into high gear, important for athletes and runners.
A single brazil nut gets you all the selenium you need in a day per RDA recoomended levels
Walnuts are big in the omega-3 category.
And given that they take almost forever to spoil, keeping a variety around is not so hard.
But peanuts are good. And i am among those who bulk up at Costco on this and the others mentioned above.
Sesame seeds have too much sodium and are too much labor and work to get out of the shell. Most runners have high blood pressure (which is why I measure my runners blood pressure between intervals) and we dont need any sodium in our diet.