Nuts should be stored in an airtight container away from sunlight - so the best way to keep them is in glass jars in a dark room or cupboard, right? Well I dont have any glass jars so I just make sure the plastics pakcaging is well wrapped round and help with an elastic band and I keep them in my clothes cupboard. Do you reckon that is good enough.
The reason why nuts should be stored this way is to stop the fats being changed by the air and sunlight by oxidation which makes healthy fats less healthy. For the same reason it is best ot eat nuts raw.
I would love to to a biochemical study of nuts over time under different conditions!!!! I guess it would be quite straight forward - at appointed times, extract the fats and run them out on a gas-liquid chromatography.... hmmmm
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