# Are Almonds the Healthiest Nut?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-almonds-the-healthiest-nut/685637>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 8, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-almonds-the-healthiest-nut/685637 "2014-04-08T14:41:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-almonds-the-healthiest-nut/685637/21 "2014-04-09T21:55:28Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> They’re also great if you’re a tad deficient in hydrogen cyanide. 🙂

A doctor friend of mine once said: “Assume that anything that smells like almonds is poison. Including almonds.” He wasn’t a fan.

In some parts of the world, you can still get “bitter” almonds, which do have a surprisingly low toxic dose, but the everyday ones you get in the US are pretty much harmless (I don’t know if they don’t have cyanide at all or if the dose is just too low to matter.)

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-almonds-the-healthiest-nut/685637/22 "2014-04-10T20:53:14Z")

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Here ya go, a printable [chart](http://www.health-alternatives.com/nut-seed-nutrition-chart.html) showing the nutritioinal value of various nuts/seeds/grains/legumes.

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**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-almonds-the-healthiest-nut/685637/23 "2014-04-10T21:04:47Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> Here ya go, a printable [chart](http://www.health-alternatives.com/nut-seed-nutrition-chart.html) showing the nutritioinal value of various nuts/seeds/grains/legumes.

Peanuts do better on this chart than I would have thought.

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**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-almonds-the-healthiest-nut/685637/24 "2014-04-11T05:36:33Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> Here ya go, a printable [chart](http://www.health-alternatives.com/nut-seed-nutrition-chart.html) showing the nutritioinal value of various nuts/seeds/grains/legumes.

Odd how some grains seem so much more dense than others (e.g oats vs. millet).

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