Natural foods such as walnut has the essential fatty acid especially linolenic acid and omega 3 fat.
It is also significantly rich in essential amino acids like animal proteins without the burden of bad cholesterol in animal proteins.
It has about 15-18% of proteins of high biological value and about 60% fats mainly polyunsaturated essential fatty acids linoleic acid and linoleic acid.
Arginine is one of the essential amino acid that is abundantly found in walnuts.
The cholesterol in walnut is the good one.
Recent researches have also revealed that walnut are also very rich in antioxidants (polyphenolic compounds).The others include flavonoids, quinones, etc.
Walnuts are also very rich in important materials that facilitate the proper psychological functioning of the body.
They include copper (cu), zinc (zn), selenium (se) manganese (mn) and iron(fe).
They have trace elements as well as macro or major elements like potassium (k) magnesium (mg), calcium(ca),and phosphorus (p).
It also has vitamin A and B complex.
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