Nuts: An Ideal Snack

Your brain and body need healthy fats, like the kind you'll find in cashews, to help manage stress, mood, and focus.

Turn those cashews into a purée to have on hand when you want to add creamy richness to soups and stews.

Originating in modern-day Iran, walnuts improve pretty much any baked good you add them to.

The mellow, sweet aroma and earthy tones of mahua flowers combine with walnuts and whole wheat flour for a fresh-baked snack.

The first tree ever domesticated by humans? Almonds have an ancient history — and a complete macronutrient profile.

You can also enjoy these almonds, spicy with the heat of smoked paprika, as a salad add-in or casserole topper.  

Cousins of the cashew, pistachios elevate everything they touch. Try swapping out pine nuts for them the next time you make a pesto.

Nuts in a dressing? Yes. Pistachios are the key to a salad that's like a slaw with an an herbal tang. 

Think outside the pie when you consider pecans, which provide manganese, thiamine, and copper.

No need to buy granola at the store. Try this gluten-free, energy-boosting recipe featuring pecans and even more nuts and seeds.

In a nut rut? This book, as the subtitle states, is your essential guide to culinary creativity with nuts, with tips from notable chefs.

Nutritionist and cookbook author Karman Meyer touts almonds, and many other food choices, that are "sleepy foods."

Find out how certain food and ingredients, including a variety of nuts, interact with and promote overall wellbeing for women.