The two cups of shell-on pistachios in the 8-ounce bag worked out to exactly one cup of ready-to-eat nuts. The 6-ounce pre-shelled bag, on the other hand, contained 1 1/2 cups of ready-to-eat nuts.

A&E Food Raw or roasted, whole or chopped, nuts add flavor, texture Wed., Oct. 13, 2010 Chef Jeremiah Timmons holds his pecan-crusted brie appetizer at Ambrosia in Spokane Valley on Tuesday, Oct ...

Whole nuts retain intact cell walls, which prevent the immediate release of fat. In contrast, nut butters and ground nuts have broken cell walls, allowing more fat to be easily absorbed by the body.

Keeping nuts in-shell at room temperature is also an option, but only for about six weeks. Schaich says that if you put some whole walnuts out “at Thanksgiving, [they] probably could get to ...

Unshelled nuts, or filberts, were found to be contaminated, and it is thought that consumers transferred E. coli bacteria from the shell to the nut meat as they cracked open the nuts.

Nutrition information per 1⁄4 cup serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 199 calories; 147 calories from fat (74 percent of total calories); 16 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans ...