Karma Nuts “Wraps Up” Functional Snacking

Cashews are a staple for many vegan diets, between cashew milk, the base of vegan nacho “cheese”, and just plan cashews for snacking on the go! What most vegans may not know is that Cashews have skin, similar to peanuts! Karma Nuts shows us why they keep the skin with their Wrapped cashews to get us a well-rounded nutritional snack!

Key benefits of skin on cashews: 

• 2x the fiber of regular cashews
• Comparable antioxidants to blueberries
• Great source of plant-based protein
• Significant amounts of Catechins and Epicatechins (the polyphenols found in Green Tea) with very high Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) values

Karma Nuts keep these skin on by carefully removing the cashew nut from the cashew shell. PLUS keeping the skins means less food waste and an overall win all around. 

“Don’t get my wrong, cashews taste great on their own”, says Founder of Karma Nuts Ganesh Nair. “But by keeping on their skin they have even more crunch, flavor, and overall nutrition”. 

In 2014 Karma Nuts introduced a line of minimally processed cashews, including the Wrapped® cashew (the most delectable, crunchy, and nutritionally-dense cashew) which was developed by the Nair family leveraging their 85+ years of experience in the cashew business. In 2016, the Wrapped cashew was recognized as the “Best New Snack” at the world’s largest Natural Products show, Expo West.  

Karma Nuts has since developed many flavors of both Wrapped and Roasted (which are the more conventional “skin-less” cashews) cashews, using All-Natural, Non-GMO Project Verified, Vegan, and Kosher ingredients and are available through both online and brick & mortar retailers.

We wanted to make “Functional Snacking” possible”, states Nair. We wanted to contribute to society by providing plant-based snacks that have a lot of added nutrition. One of the key deficits in the American diet is fiber and it is very important for a regular diet. So by snacking on our cashews, we are able to add benefit to consumers by wrapping our cashews and provide an alternate for people to have a less-processed, low sugar, high-fiber snack to amplify their nutrient-intake while also enjoying a tasty snack on the go”. 

Karma Nuts come in 11 delicious flavors: Sea Salt,Cocoa Dusted, Cinnamon, Golden Turmeric, Lime Twist, Toasted Coconut, Lightly Salted, Sweet Matcha, Raw, and Peri Peri. They are also vegan, gluten-free and non-GMO. Karma Nuts can be found online or in select grocery stores here.