Could eating a handful of pistachios daily help improve eye health? [View all]

Eating a handful of pistachio nuts each day can significantly improve eye health, according to a new study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

Adding two ounces of unsalted, shelled, dry-roasted pistachio nuts each day for 12 weeks to participants’ usual diet improved their macular pigment optical density (MPOD).

The study was supported by the American Pistachio Growers and the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
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Pistachios are unusually rich in bioavailable lutein, a plant pigment that protects the macula from damage from blue light. The study found that participants’ lutein levels increased after only six weeks and doubled by the end of the study.
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