What are the nutritional values and benefits of peanuts?

Tanida Dream (Natural Grain Food Advocate) Answer:

The most nutritious aspects of peanuts are probably its niacin and oil, but its oil may still not be perfect in vegetable oil.

Peanuts are a great snack to eat, but be careful:

Do not eat too much, because peanuts contain more oil;

Try not to eat moldy peanuts if you have a choice, because moldy peanuts may contain a lot of aflatoxin.

Comrades with a family history of peanut allergy must be cautious when eating peanuts and their products. If you have a known peanut allergy, keep your mouth shut.

Peanuts are not only a highly nutritious food, but also a health care medicine with high medicinal value. Peanut seeds, seed coats, seed shells and peanut oil can all be used as medicine. Peanut flavor is sweet and flat, and has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, lowering cholesterol and protecting blood vessels.

1. Moisten the lungs and relieve cough: Peanuts are rich in fatty oil, which can play a role in moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and are often used for long-term cough and asthma, phlegm with blood and other diseases.

2. Reduce cholesterol: The linoleic acid contained in peanut oil can decompose cholesterol into bile acids in the human body and excrete it from the body, avoid the deposition of cholesterol in the body, and reduce the incidence of a variety of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases caused by cholesterol exceeding normal values in the human body.

3. Protect blood vessels: Peanuts contain unsaturated fatty acids, choline, lecithin and other nutrients, which can increase the permeability of capillaries, delay the production of heart disease, hypertension and cerebral hemorrhage, and help alleviate the precipitation and accumulation of cholesterol in blood vessels and cause arteriosclerosis. Peanut shells contain luteolin and sitosterol, which can regulate blood pressure and blood lipids.

How to eat peanuts.

1.Boiled peanuts: Raw peanuts retain more nutrients from peanuts, but eating raw peanuts directly after being infected with Aspergillus flavus and crawling by insects and mites will affect health.

Although boiled peanuts lose some nutrients compared to raw peanuts, the content of chemicals in boiled peanuts that can prevent disease occurs is more than 4 times more than that of raw peanuts, fried peanuts and roasted peanuts, etc., when water and heat penetrate peanuts, beneficial chemicals will be released, and overcooking peanuts, such as frying, baking, etc., will destroy these beneficial ingredients, so relatively speaking, boiled peanuts have a relatively high effect on disease prevention.

2.Vinegar soaked peanuts: Vinegar soaked peanuts have the effect of clearing heat and invigorating blood, and have a good effect on protecting blood vessel walls and preventing thrombosis. Long-term insistence on eating vinegar soaked peanuts can lower blood pressure, soften blood vessels, reduce cholesterol accumulation, and is a health food for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

3.Sprouted peanuts: When peanuts sprout, many of these nutrients can be activated, such as resveratrol will be more than 100 times higher than before germination, resveratrol is a polyphenolic compound, is a chemopreventive agent for tumors, can also reduce platelet aggregation, prevent and alleviate atherosclerosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, etc.

Peanut effect. Introduction: Also known as peanuts, ground fruits, and Chinese beans.

Flowers grow in nourishment and nourishment, and there is a fetal nail ball in prolonging life, so the folk is also called "longevity fruit", and like soybeans, it is called "plant meat" and "meat in vegetarian food". The nutritional value of peanuts is higher than that of grains, and is comparable to some animal foods such as eggs, milk, and meat. It contains a lot of protein and fat, especially the content of unsaturated fatty acids is very high, which is very suitable for the manufacture of various nutritious foods.

Efficacy: Peanuts have hemostatic effect. The hemostatic effect of peanut red coat is 50 times higher than that of peanuts, and it has a good hemostatic effect on many bleeding diseases.

Peanuts can enhance memory, anti-aging, delay the decline of brain function, and moisturize**. The unsaturated fatty acids in peanuts have the effect of lowering cholesterol and help prevent and treat arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease. American scientists have discovered a biologically active natural polyphenol in peanuts - resveratrol.

This substance is a chemopreventive agent for oncological diseases, as well as a chemopreventive agent for reducing platelet aggregation and preventing atherosclerosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In the "Anti-Aging Sacred Book" published by American scholar Al Mindell in 1998, resveratrol was listed as one of the "100 most popular and effective anti-aging substances". Peanuts also have the functions of correcting and replenishing deficiency, pleasing the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and dissolving phlegm, nourishing and regulating qi, diluting water and reducing swelling, stopping bleeding and producing milk, clearing the throat and stopping malaria.

Suitable for: It can be eaten by all ages. Physical weakness after illness, recovery of surgical patients, and women's postpartum consumption of peanuts during pregnancy all have tonic effects.

Applicable amount: 80 100 grams per day.

Tips: Peanuts and red clothes are eaten together with red dates, which can not only replenish deficiency, but also stop bleeding, and is most suitable for bleeding patients with weak bodies. After peanuts are fried or fried, they are hot and dry in nature and should not be eaten more.

Among the many ways to eat peanuts, it is best to eat them stewed. This not only avoids the destruction of nutrients, but also has the characteristics of tepid, moist taste, good and easy to digest, suitable for all ages. Peanuts contain a lot of oil, and they need to consume more bile when digesting, so patients with bile disease should not eat them.

Peanuts can enhance blood clotting and promote thrombosis, so people with high blood viscosity or blood clots should not eat them. Peanuts contain a large amount of carcinogens - aflatoxin, so moldy peanuts should never be eaten.

Many people like to eat peanuts have the effect of nourishing blood, for peanuts that have just come out, you can pick out the more tender peanuts to cook and then put a little salt to eat. In addition, in order to better preserve peanuts, you can also fry them, or eat them raw, in fact, there are many benefits of eating more raw peanuts, so what are the effects and functions of raw peanuts?

1. Supplemental nutrition raw peanuts contain a large number of nutrients, such as protein, fat, sugar, trace elements, minerals, etc., which are needed by the human body.

2. Raw peanuts can dilute gastric acid to relieve gastric acid, if you find that there is a burning sensation in the stomach, you can chew a few peanuts at this time, which can not only relieve gastric acid, but also reduce the feeling of stomach burning.

3. Peanut has the effect of hemostasis and coagulation, when the first is damaged, it can stop bleeding through peanut skin, in addition, it also has the effect of anti-fibrinolysis, can regulate the defect of coagulation factors, and can play a certain preventive role in athlete's foot, blurred vision, neuritis, etc., and has a certain preventive effect on athlete's foot, blurred vision and neuritis.

4. If the cholesterol is low, if the cholesterol in the body is high or high, you can eat peanuts, the fat contained in peanuts will decompose cholesterol in the liver into bile acids, which can help to discharge, thereby reducing blood cholesterol, so after eating peanuts, atherosclerosis is not easy to appear.

5. Peanut can enhance hematopoietic function, improve the function of platelets, have the effect of hemostasis and coagulation, enhance hematopoietic function, and play a role in blood replenishment.

The efficacy and function of peanuts: it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and reducing phlegm; It has certain effects of lowering blood lipids, lowering cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, increasing coronary artery flow, calming the nerves, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and nootropic and brain-strengthening effects.

Peanut is the mature seed of the legume plant. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that peanuts are sweet and flat, return to the spleen and lung meridians, and have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and dissolving phlegm, and can be used for spleen deficiency and nausea, lactating women with less milk, dry cough, dry stool, etc.

Modern pharmacological studies have shown that peanuts contain fatty oil, protein, arachidine, betaine, vitamin B, pantothenic acid, biotin, vitamin C, -sitosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, lecithin, -methylene glutamic acid, -amino-methylenebutyric acid and other components; Peanuts can promote red blood cell agglutination, reduce blood lipids, lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, increase coronary artery flow, calm the nerves, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and strengthen the brain.

Peanuts are rich in nutrients and can be eaten more appropriately. However, it should be noted that peanuts are easy to produce aflatoxin when stored for too long, and eating too much is easy to cause cancer; Peanut fat content is high, and people with gallbladder disease should not eat it; Peanuts can promote blood clotting, and people with thrombotic diseases or thick blood should not eat more. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is not suitable for those who have cold and dampness stagnation and slippery bowel and diarrhea.

Although some components of peanuts have a role in modern research, their effective content and effects are limited. Food and food are not intended for disease** and are not intended as a substitute for medicine.