I have cut out most added salt to my diet and as a result, my tastebuds have changed. Yesterday, I was at Costco looking for nuts and I decided to buy a mixed nut assortment that is salted. I figured I'd either eat them as they are or try to remove some of the salt. Well one taste and I knew the mixture was way too salty for me.

So I rinsed the nuts in a collander.
I laid the nuts flat out to dry on some paper towels.
Since the nuts were still a little damp, I tried using the oven to dry them out a little. I wasn't sure exactly what to do because the nuts were already roasted, I didn't want to burn them. So I did a little trial and error at a low oven temperature. I think I was successful but it was kind of cludgy.

Has anyone ever de-salted nuts? Is there a better method to doing it?

Hi Nelie -

I've never tried to "de-salt" nuts. However, you can buy several different kinds of unsalted nuts at Whole Foods.

I've done this before, but I usually only wash a handful of them - just what I plan on eating. That way they don't sit around and get soggy and watery. I've also de-cheesed Doritos before. Yeah, yeah, yeah...I should have just bought corn tortilla chips, but I wanted Doritos at the time. It was before I was on a diet, so the de-cheesing wasn't for health purposes. It was just because I didn't like the massive amounts of cheese powder they put on those things. Eww. Soggy Doritos aren't much fun.

BreakingFree, I was trying to be cheap 2.5 lbs of mixed nuts (no peanuts) was 10 dollars. I usually buy Costco's unsalted walnuts but they were out. I also have a korean grocery store near me that sells unroasted unsalted shelled peanuts for really cheap and I roast those in the oven. I like the nut mixture because it has a variety including brazil nuts which are pretty expensive nuts.

Yes, buy unsalted nuts

I like saoked nuts better than dry. I wash them and soak them for an hour or two or more as u like until they swell and they taste so good like that! Almonds soaked overnight are my fav.

This is only kind-of related, but I've heard that roasted nuts are entirely different nutritionally than nonroasted, at least in the case of almonds. I guess making almond milk with a roasted and unroasted nut will demonstrate the difference, as it does something to the fats. This was information I'd heard from a nutritionist (Deanna Latson) recently. I suppose it's true in the sense that a whole food is a preferably unprocessed one, and that roasting a nut would process it.

I don't know about almonds but in some instances cooking foods makes the nutrients more bioavailable. I wouldn't necessarily say that cooking something makes it processed although raw foodists would disagree

Raw unsalted nuts are the best nutritionally, then roasted unsalted, and finally the roasted salted. Of course, the ones with sugar are entirely out.