Dried Apricot
Benefits
- Very nutritious and low in calories
- Rich in antioxidants
- Promotes eye health
- Boosts skin health
- Protects skin from pollution
- Improves digestion and gut health
- Rich in potassium
- Prevents high blood pressure and reduces risk of stroke
- May protect your liver
- Easy to add to your diet
Detailed Benefits
Antioxidants
Prevents/slows damage to cells. Helps lower risk of infections and some forms of cancer.
Protein
Reduces hunger helping you eat fewer calories. Helps increase muscle mass and strength. Helps maintain bone mass. Boosts metabolism. Helps lose and regulate weight.
Dietary Fiber
Helps lose and maintain a healthy weight. Helps with digestion. Lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart diseases.
Omega 6 Fatty Acids
Primarily used for energy in the right quantities. Ideal ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 is 4:1 or less. Helps treat symptoms of chronic diseases.
Vitamin A
Helps in maintaining healthy vision, ensuring the normal function of your immune system and organs and aiding the proper growth and development of babies in the womb. Important for healthy cell division and may reduce the risk of some types of cancer. Reduces risk of fractures.
Vitamin E
Antioxidant. Protects cells from damage due to air pollution and exposure to ultraviolet rays from sunlight.
Vitamin K
Helps with the clotting of blood. Activates a protein that prevents calcium from depositing in arteries and preventing atherosclerosis. Also helps prevent the development of plaque.
Niacin
Also known as Vitamin B3. Helps convert food to energy by aiding enzymes. Helps against memory loss, fatigue, depression, headache, diarrhea, and skin problems.
Vitamin B6
Improves mood and reduces symptoms of depression. Promotes brain health and reduces risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Helps treat nausea during pregnancy. Prevents atherosclerosis and reduces risk of heart diseases. Helps prevent eye diseases.
Folate
Also known as Vitamin B9. Is needed to make red and white blood cells in the bone marrow, convert carbohydrates into energy and produce DNA and RNA. Extremely important during periods of rapid growth such as pregnancy, infancy, and adolescence. Intake higher than 1000 mcg per day can promote cancer growth. 1 ounce of almonds contains 14 mcg of folate. The recommended daily allowance is as follows:
- 0 to 6 months: 65 mcg
- 7 to 12 months: 80 mcg
- 1 to 3 years: 150 mcg
- 4 to 8 years: 200 mcg
- 9 to 13 years: 300 mcg
- ver 14 years: 400 mcg
- during pregnancy: 600 mcg
- during lactation: 500 mcg
Choline
An organic, water-soluble compound, it is needed for many essential functions such as:
- to make fats that support cell structure
- to produce compounds that send messages across cells
- to remove cholesterol from the liver
- to make acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter
Recommended consumption:
- 0–6 months: 125 mg per day
- 7–12 months: 150 mg per day
- 1–3 years: 200 mg per day
- 4–8 years: 250 mg per day
- 9–13 years: 375 mg per day
- 14–19 years: 400 mg per day for women and 550 mg per day for men
- Adult women: 425 mg per day
- Adult men: 550 mg per day
- Breastfeeding women: 550 mg per day
- Pregnant women: 450 mg per day
Calcium
Strengthens bones. Needed by heart, muscles and nerves to function properly. Helps with high blood pressure.
Iron
Reduces fatigue. Improves muscle strength and boosts immunity. Improves concentration and helps with insomnia. Needed for immune and cardiovascular systems.
Magnesium
Helps absorption of calcium. Reduces risk of type 2 diabetes. Reduces risk of atherosclerosis and high blood pressure. Reduces anxiety.
Phosphorus
Helps build strong bones and teeth. Helps filter out waste in the kidneys. Helps to balance and use vitamins such as vitamins B and D, as well as other minerals like iodine, magnesium, and zinc. Assists in muscle contraction. Reduces muscle pain after exercise.
Potassium
Helps manage fluid balance, nerve signals and muscle contractions. Helps reduce blood pressure. Reduces calcium loss preventing osteoporosis. Helps fight kidney stones.
Copper
Helps with the production of red blood cells, regulation of heart rate and blood pressure, and absorption of iron. Also helps prevention of prostatitis, or inflammation of the prostate, development and maintenance of bone, connective tissue, and organs such as the brain and heart, and activation of the immune system.

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