Walnuts are rich in a variety of nutrients, pregnant women eat walnuts have many benefits. After carrying a baby, pregnant women need to supplement all kinds of nutrition, in addition to eating more fruits, nuts are also very necessary. Modern medical research believes that the phospholipids in walnuts have a good health effect on the brain and nerves. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which have the effect of preventing arteriosclerosis. Walnut kernel contains zinc, manganese, chromium and other indispensable trace elements. The human body in the aging process of zinc, manganese content is decreasing, chromium has to promote glucose utilization, cholesterol metabolism and protection of cardiovascular function. When is the best time for pregnant women to eat walnuts? Generally three or four months when eating is better, this stage is the fetal brain as well as retinal development is very important stage. Generally speaking, it is best to eat between breakfast and lunch, or between lunch and dinner, you can choose to make some snacks in the two meals directly eat, eat two to five per day. The benefits of walnuts for pregnant women and babies! Walnuts are rich in nutrients, each 100 grams containing 15 to 20 grams of protein, 60 to 70 grams of fat, 10 grams of carbohydrates, and contains essential calcium, phosphorus, iron and other trace elements and minerals, as well as carotene, riboflavin and other vitamins. It has been determined that 500 grams of walnuts equivalent to 2500 grams of eggs or 4750 grams of milk nutritional value, especially beneficial to the brain nerve cells calcium, iron, and vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and other components of the content is relatively high. Walnuts can be peeled and eaten raw, can also be crushed and brown sugar mixed with steamed buns to eat, you can also cook porridge or made into peach cake to eat, if pregnant women insist on eating a few walnuts every day, the maintenance of their own bodies and the development of the fetus have great benefits. How to pick good walnuts? 1, look, carefully observe its shell, good quality walnut appearance round, head grain uniformity, stitching line tight, will be slightly tied. Blackened, oiled most of the bad fruit. 2, touch, experienced eaters will be walnuts in the hand weighing weight, light and weightless, most of the empty fruit, bad fruit. 3, smell, taste is also very easy to identify, good walnuts should not have any odor, pick a few smell, old fruit, bad fruit has obvious flavor of the haram, if the walnut cracked open smell, haram more obvious. 4, listen, take in the hand and knead, if the so-called sound of gold and stone, that is, very real, hard, it is mature wild walnuts, if PiLaPiLa empty sound, it is mostly grafted. In addition to the walnuts from a meter high or so thrown on the hard ground to listen to the sound, empty fruit will sound like a broken ping-pong ball. In short, pregnant women want to eat “good” walnuts must go through this from the surface to the inside, from the shell to the kernel of repeated comparisons, careful selection. Only eat a good walnut, in order to give full play to its nutrients, to achieve the role of strong brain, have a healthy and smart baby is just around the corner.