Peanuts, known as long-lived fruits, do you know the nutritional effects?

Peanut is a delicious and nutritious food, known as "long-lived fruit". However, when many people are attracted by the mellow taste of peanuts, they don't really "get it", not knowing their nutritional value, or their specific effects. Today, People's Daily Science China will introduce the nutrition and efficacy of peanuts. Let's take a look.

First of all, the nutritional value of peanuts is high. According to reports, modern pharmacological studies have found that peanuts are rich in oil and fat, and their fat content is very high, up to 45% to 50%, of which unsaturated fatty acids account for about 80%; peanuts are also rich in protein content, up to 25% 30%; peanut also contains riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, selenium, lecithin, choline, vitamin E, vitamin K, B vitamins, etc.

Secondly, peanuts have many effects. Peanuts are known as "long-lived fruits" in the folk, and are also known as "the meat of the prime." Chinese medicine believes that peanuts are flat in nature and sweet, and can enter the spleen and lung channels, which can refresh the spleen and stomach, moisten the lungs and reduce phlegm, nourish and regulate the gas, clear the throat and cough. Purple spots on the skin, maternal milk loss and dry stools and other diseases.

In addition, peanuts are "high satiety" foods. If you eat peanuts or peanut butter at breakfast, you can reduce the amount of food you eat that day, which helps to lose weight; eating peanuts can also stabilize blood sugar, which is beneficial to heart health.

Although there are many benefits of eating peanuts, Qi Cuihua, a director of the Shandong Nutrition Society and an associate professor of nutrition in Jinan University, pointed out in an interview with a newspaper that eating peanuts also has taboos:
Peanut contains a lot of protein, and digesting too much protein will increase the intestinal burden, so people with indigestion should eat peanuts less.

Raw peanuts have a smooth bowel effect after entering the stomach, and eating more can easily cause diarrhea. Therefore, some patients with stomach acid use raw peanuts to relieve stomach discomfort. .

High-protein and high-fat foods will stimulate the gallbladder and promote a large amount of bile secretion, so patients with hepatobiliary diseases should choose the cooking method when eating peanuts to avoid frying and frying.

Peanuts contain a lot of fat, and eating more can promote the secretion of more oil from skin follicles, so those with oily skin should not eat too much peanuts.