Dryfruits and nuts--Vegan

Dryfruits are concentrated forms of freshfruits.
They are richer sources of minerals than the fresher form of a fruit if cosumed in teh same quantity by weight. Having said that dry fruits are essentially processed in a small given way when compared to their fresher counterparts and therefore all water soluble vitamins are gone. Nevertheless dryfruits are reall nutritious have large quantities of microminerals given the fact that one can consume larger quanities of a dry fruit at a given time than say the same number of fresh fruits.
ONe could eat greater number of dried figs than say freshfigs.
Having said that, It is always a better option to eat fresh figs than dried just so that you don't miss out on the fiber, water content and the water soluble vitamins.

Now coming to the nuts. Nuts contains a high quanity of essential fatty acis . They are yet again good mineral sources as well. But then, many of them do have varying quanitities of saturated fats in combination to the pufas-Poly unsaturated fatty acids. Which is, they are very very rich sources of calories.
Nuts do have fiber but come on, nuts are not hte only source of fiber.Vegetables are a far superior source of fiber without the cholesterol but with the minerals if at all you are looking for a mineral rich fiber source. I would suggest that nuts are better off when used of as garnishes rather than when consumed as is as a snack.Nuts when eaten by the handful are just not right. So, quit eating nuts as a meal. Rather just include a tablespoonful of nuts in your diet every alternate day.That should do.
Nuts and dryfruits do provide minerals for a vegan but i would rather than vegans derive all their fiber and minerals from vegetables which are quite balanced when consumed in large quantities than when nuts are . It is funny when i see vegans going crazy over cashew paste in every damn thing.Serioulsy, come on , cashew does have a lot of cholesterol-Not that cholesterol is bad, but then out own body is perfectly capable of synthesizing cholesterol on it's own from vegetable sources.