European Journal of Nutrition found that dry roasting (which enhances nut flavor) and light salting doesn’t affect their nutritional content.
While great for nibbling, nuts make crunchy additions to salads, yogurt and breakfast grains. They can be chopped fine and used instead of breadcrumbs, ground fine to use in place of flour, and processed into a nut butter.
More information
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has more on the nutrients in all nuts.