Diamond Foods makes snack products such as baked potato chips, low-fat popcorn and nuts including macadamia nuts, pine nuts, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, almonds and walnuts. If you are looking for a nutrient-dense option or a baking ingredient, you might consider walnuts. Diamond walnuts are part of its culinary line of nuts, and the company grows its English walnuts in California.
Background
Diamond states that its walnuts are somewhat sweet with a slight bitter accent from the skin. Varieties include shelled, chopped, and diced walnuts, walnut halves and whole walnuts in the shell. They come in packages with multiple servings in sizes ranging from 2 1/4 oz. to 2 lb. for the unshelled walnuts. They are ready to eat as snacks, or you can use them in recipes such as spinach salad, walnut-oatmeal cookies or beef stew.
Overall Nutrition Information
One serving of Diamond Walnuts is 30 g, or 1/4 cup. It has 200 calories with 180 calories from fat, or about 90 percent of its calories from fat. It has 5 g of protein and 4 g of total carbohydrates, including 1 g of sugar and 2 g of dietary fiber, which is heart-healthy as it may decrease cholesterol levels in your blood. Walnuts also have 0 g of cholesterol.
Healthy Fats
Like other nuts, Diamond English walnuts are high in heart-healthy fats. Of the 20 g of fat per serving, only 2 g are from saturated fats, which raise levels of "bad," or LDL, cholesterol in your blood. Unsaturated fats may lower your cholesterol and Diamond walnuts have 2.5 g monounsaturated and 14 g polyunsaturated fats per 30-g serving. Diamond walnuts are naturally free from dangerous trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils.
Vitamins and Minerals
A serving of Diamond walnuts provides 50 percent of the daily value for manganese, which is essential for metabolism and bone health. The nuts have 25 percent of the daily value for copper and 10 percent of the daily value for the essential minerals phosphorus, magnesium and molybdenum. One serving also has 8 percent of the daily value for folate and vitamin B6. A high-sodium diet may lead to high blood pressure and a higher risk for coronary heart disease and stroke; Diamond walnuts do not contain sodium.
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