Whether it is possible for pregnant cashews

Pregnancy is the period when the woman needs to be careful in everything, whether it be physical activities or food which she eats. Sometimes women in situation are afraid to use cashew nuts to avoid a possible allergy or increase in weight. It not always so, it is just necessary to find out how it is correct to consume them. In this article we will consider, than cashew nuts are useful to pregnant women in what their harm and also what nutritiousness of this product.

Caloric content and chemical composition

Nutritional value of 100 grams of nuts of cashew and ratio as a percentage between them:

Advantage and harm

Nuts of cashew are vitamin-rich also minerals, they are a good power source for its fast completion at pregnant women.

Important! During pregnancy it is desirable for women to avoid some salty nuts of cashew as in them excess amount of sodium. Salty food promotes deduction of water in an organism and to developing of hypostases.

Each 100 g of nuts of cashew deliver to an organism a set of nutrients and render considerable advantage to health:

• magnesium — it substance promotes normal functioning of heart, muscles and kidneys, prevents complications and interferes with emergence of a preeklampsiya during pregnancy;
• potassium — this electrolyte is necessary to an organism for normal work of cages, fabrics and internals. Low level of potassium can cause high blood pressure that bears in itself high potential danger during pregnancy;
• phosphorus — is important for the fortress of bones and teeth, normal work of kidneys and production of construction blocks in fruit genes;
• zinc — this mineral has antioxidant properties. It is necessary for health of the immune system and fibrillation, provides normal development of pregnancy and the beginning of patrimonial activity;
• calcium — besides that this substance is a basis for bones and teeth, mineral is necessary for reduction and expansion of blood vessels and work of neuromuscular function. Calcium consumption can also reduce risk of a preeklampsiya;

Important! Calcium is necessary during pregnancy therefore women need to include in a diet the products rich with calcium, such as milk, cheeses, cottage cheese and greens.

• iron — substance is extremely necessary for red blood cages which transfer oxygen to various parts of a body. At incubation of the child the organism of future mothers is inclined to deficiency of iron that can lead to a complication of pregnancy, anemia, fatigue;
• folate, or B9 vitamin — is important for the pregnant woman as it can reduce considerably risk of development in the child of defects of a nervous tube which include such states as splitting of a backbone and pathogenesis;
• vitamin K — is necessary for normal fibrillation that is vital during childbirth or at Cesarean section in time to stop bleeding;
• copper — is necessary to help to increase quantity of red blood cells in blood and for production of collagen in an organism;
• nutritiousness — nuts are also a powerful power source, their consumption will help to overcome any fatigue or weakness during pregnancy;
• the help in a set of missing weight — nuts of cashew contain fats most of which part is healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. Because of the high content of carbohydrates and fats of cashew have good nutritiousness for those pregnant women who gain insufficient weight.

Whether you know? Cashew is a member of the family of Anacardiaceae. This family is known that the poisonous ivy also belongs to it. All plants of this family contain urushiol — the irritating oil causing skin rash. Cashew which is consumed by people is peeled previously from a thin skin and the toxic milk which is between a skin and nut.

It is necessary to remember that an insufficient set of weight by mother after the birth of the child will mean also the insufficient weight of the baby. Such children sometimes do not wish to take a breast and more often are exposed to risk to ache. Also some children with an insufficient weight can test delays in development, without keeping up with development of the peers.

Possible harm:

1. The use of too large number of cashew can lead to increase in weight therefore they should be consumed in moderate quantities. The woman has to control daily reception of nutlets and watch that the amount of the eaten delicacy did not exceed 10 pieces. In view of that the pregnant woman inevitably gains weight, excess extra kilos can do harm as to her, and future child.
2. Overeating of nuts of cashew can provoke problems with kidneys and bilious puzyryom that is caused by existence of oxalates in them. Oxalates concentrate in liquids of an organism and cause problems with these bodies. Pregnant women should show extra care, using this product.

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Whether it is possible for pregnant women on early terms

In the first trimester of development of a fruit the woman should not gain too quickly weight therefore it is temporarily necessary to limit meal, so rich with fats as nuts, to 2–3 kernels a day. In the second and third trimesters it is desirable to increase a daily dose to 10 pieces a day.

In the second trimester

In the second trimester of pregnancy these nutritious nuts are important high content of Riboflavinum (vitamin D) which is responsible for full development of a skeleton of future child. Also during this period future mother can periodically have dissonances in work of digestive tract — cashew nuts will help to cope with manifestation of dysbacteriosis too.

Whether you know? Cashew actually is a seed of the fruit growing on a tree. These yellow fruit possess with a high content of vitamin C, still call them cashew apples. Fruit possess the sweet and slightly astringent taste (reminding mango) and are very popular in the countries where they grow.

In the third trimester

During this period the woman gradually approaches the final stage of pregnancy — to childbirth therefore it is worth thinking of that in the future there was enough milk for feeding of the baby in advance.

Nuts are the high-protein food raising a lactation. Presence of nuts at a diet of the pregnant woman gives an impetus to development by an organism of maternal milk.

Contraindications and precautionary measures

Not to provoke a problem, it is necessary to take an interest in possible contraindications to consumption of nuts of this look in advance:

• too many the eaten cashews can lead to a hypertension. It is caused by the fact that, besides healthy fats of nonsaturated type, they also contain a number of saturated fats. During pregnancy the blood volume in an organism naturally increases to satisfy additional requirements of the pregnant woman for oxygen. If there is an allergy or suspicion of an allergy, it is necessary to exclude completely cashew (as well as other products with their additive) from the pregnant woman's diet. It means that the body of future mother can already adapt to more high normal blood pressure.

Whether you know? Biologists call nut only a filbert, all the rest is seeds. Nuts develop on a plant after fertilization, and they just ripen and harden in process of growing. For example, the acorn is nut too, it develops just as a filbert.

But if the woman has a hypertension because of cholesteric plaques in arteries, then consumption of a large number of fat products can lead to further narrowing of arteries and increase in pressure in blood vessels. About 10-15% of women have hypertensia at pregnancy and can face complications during pregnancy or childbirth if not to limit consumption of greasy food. It can influence fruit weight, increase risk of emergence of trouble breathing at the child to or during childbirth, to increase risk of an otsloyka of a placenta;

• a large amount of saturated fats in an organism can lead to increase in the general cholesterol and level of cholesterol of lipoproteins of low density. It, in turn, can increase the probability of obstruction of arteries. Even if the woman in situation has no problems with health connected with cardiovascular diseases or with the high level of cholesterol, nutritionists advise to moderate consumption of saturated fats no more than 10% of the general consumption of calories during the day;

Whether you know? The homeland of cashew is South and Central America and also the Caribbean islands. Thanks to trade caravans in the ancient time a plant widely extended in India and Africa. And until now this whimsical native of tropics, cashew apple, very badly transfers long-term storage and transportation therefore residents of the distant countries can enjoy only taste of seeds of this fruit (nuts).

• consumption of nuts of cashew sometimes causes allergic reaction (skin rashes, the naggers). It is undesirable to use cashew nuts to those women in situation who did not eat them before pregnancy or if they had an allergy to nuts or other products. But if analyses or tests as a result of which it was revealed that the patient has no an allergy to cashew were carried out, then there is nothing to be afraid, and it is possible to eat so useful product.

There are some products which may contain cashew:

• the packaged mix of nuts;
• pesto sauce;
• dishes of Asian cuisine;
• nut oils (Nutella);
• candies;
• ice cream;
• cakes.

We recommend to study useful properties of nuts a macadamia, black fox and also a filbert, black, almond, muscat, Brazilian and walnut nuts.

The woman expecting the child needs to pay special attention to food. Nuts of cashew have the high caloric content and mass of vitamins and minerals necessary for an organism, but at the same time can be heavy and too greasy food therefore it is necessary to use them in small quantities to encourage an organism in the portion of the necessary substances and not to do much harm to mother and a fruit at all.