Eating a lot of macadamia nuts doesn’t really change your blood triglyceride levels — so if it helps your cholesterol, it’s probably not because it’s fixing your whole fat profile.

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A macadamia nut-rich diet reduces total and LDL-cholesterol in mildly hypercholesterolemic men and women.

Randomized Controlled Trial

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2008 Apr

The study found that eating macadamia nuts lowered bad cholesterol but didn’t change triglyceride levels, which means the nuts mainly help with cholesterol, not all types of blood fats.

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A macadamia nut-rich diet reduces total and LDL-cholesterol in mildly hypercholesterolemic men and women.

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DOI: 10.1093/JN/138.4.761

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