Calories in Cashews

Welcome to our page all about the number of calories in cashews. The cashew nut is an incredibly popular food all over the world, and in addition to covering cashews calories, we also provides you with a range of information on cashew nutrition facts. We have covered raw cashews, roasted cashews and even cashew butter here.

There are many nutritional benefits that can be obtained from eating nuts like cashews, so read all about just why cashews are a nut that is good for you.

How many calories in cashews?

First of all lets look at the number of calories cashews contain, using various different types of cashew nuts.

Raw cashew calories

In a 1 oz serving of raw cashew nuts there are 157 calories
In 10 g of raw cashews there are 55 calories

Calories in dry roasted cashew nuts

In 1 oz of dry roasted cashews with salt there are 163 calories
In 1 of of dry roasted cashews without salt there are 163 calories

In 10 g of dry roasted cashews with salt there are 57 calories
In 10 g of dry roasted cashews without salt there are 57 calories

Cashew calories - Honey roasted

In 1 oz of honey roasted cashew nuts there are 162 calories
In 10 g of honey roasted cashew nuts there are 57 calories

How many calories in cashew butter?

In 1 oz of cashew butter there are 166 calories
In a 0.6 oz tablespoon of cashew butter there are 94 calories
In 10 g of cashew butter there are 59 calories

We hope that this section has been able to successfully highlight how many calories in cashew nuts for you.

Cashew nutrition facts

The following cashew nutrition facts are based on 3.5 oz / 100 g of raw cashew nuts.

Vitamin A - 0.0 IU
Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) - 0.4 milligrams (an impressive 28% of your RDA)
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) - 0.1 milligrams
Vitamin B3 (Niacin) - 1.1 milligrams
Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid) - 0.9 milligrams
Vitamin B6 - 0.4 milligrams (a helpful 21% of your recommended daily allowance)
Vitamin B9 (Folate) - 25 micrograms
Vitamin B12 - 0.0 micrograms
Vitamin C - 0.5 milligrams
Vitamin E- 0.9 milligrams
Vitamin K - 34.1 micrograms (a massive 43% of the total you need in a day)

Calcium - 37 milligrams
Copper - 2.2 milligrams (a whopping 110% of your RDA)
Iron - 6.7 milligrams (a handy 37% of your recommended daily allowance)
Magnesium - 292 milligrams (an amazing 73% of your recommended daily allowance)
Manganese - 1.7 milligrams (a brilliant 83% of your recommended daily allowance)
Phosphorus - 593 milligrams (a very helpful 59% of your RDA)
Potassium - 660 milligrams (an impressive 19% of your RDA)
Selenium - 19.9 micrograms (an impressive 28% of your RDA)
Sodium - 12 milligrams
Zinc - 5.8 milligrams (a helpful 39% of your recommended daily allowance)

Protein - 18.2 g (an impressive 36% of your recommended daily allowance)
Dietary Fiber - 3.3 g (an impressive 13% of your recommended daily allowance)
Carbohydrates - 32.7 g
Water - 5.2 g
Total fats - 43.8 g
Sugars - 5.9 g

If you want to find out more about the nutrients that have been listed above, such as the many foods that they can be found in, and the roles that they play in keeping you healthy, please check out our vitamins and minerals menu.

Are cashews good for you?

The list above shows the many nutritional benefits of cashews, but are cashews good for you or not? Well you can plainly see that there are several very appealing factors when it comes to consuming cashews, such as their rich volumes of protein, magnesium, vitamin K, copper and manganese. However, one thing that you can also see is that they have a rather high fat content, although of the 43.8 g of fat found in a 100 g serving, only 7.8 g of that is bad saturated fat. I must stress that 7.8 g of saturated fat is still relatively high.

The fact is that cashews are highly nutritious, and there really are more reasons that you should eat them, than you shouldn't. The key is moderation, and it is important to make sure that they feature regularly, but that you are not eating a ton of them at a time. Just a 50-100 g portion every other day can heavily contribute to keeping the levels of various important nutrients right up at a safe height.

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