A review of over 20 years of evidence has reinforced the link between eating pecans and positive effects on heart health, cholesterol, and the overall quality of diets. Studies on humans have shown that regularly eating pecans in snack portions has been linked to better total cholesterol, "bad" LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and non-HDL cholesterol. The findings come from an analysis on scientific evidence from 2000 to 2025 that has been published in Nutrients , a peer-reviewed journal. The