Peanuts are traditional foods that Chinese people like. Peanuts have certain medicinal value and health care functions. They were called "longevity fruit" by the ancients and folks said: "Eat peanuts can keep you healthy."
At the end of the 1990s, American nutrition experts first initiated scientific research on peanut oil, peanut butter and peanut products. After years of research, it has been found that peanuts and their products contain various types of cholesterol-lowering, beneficial cardiovascular, anti-aging, etc. Functional factors.
US nutrition experts have discovered that peanuts and peanut oil contain a highly bioactive natural polyphenolic substance called resveratrol. Its content is 908 times that of grapes, reaching 27.7 μg/g. It is a natural chemopreventive agent for tumor diseases and a chemopreventive agent that reduces platelet aggregation and prevents and treats atherosclerotic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
It has anti-oxidation and blood-dilution properties that help reduce people's cholesterol levels and improve cardiovascular health. It can effectively prolong the life span of fruit flies and yeast and is a potential anti-aging natural compound. In the anti-aging script compiled by the American scholar Al Mindell in 1998, resveratrol was listed as one of the "100 most popular and effective anti-aging substances." Today, NASA defines peanuts as one of the foods of space.
The American health and nutrition celebrity Jane Kappa said in his monograph "Anti-aging" that the content of coenzyme Q in peanut oil is higher than that of all vegetable oils. Per 100 grams of peanut oil contains about 6-10 mg of Coenzyme Q. Coenzyme Q has special health functions for the prevention and treatment of various types of cardiovascular diseases, increase energy and brain power, and assist in the treatment of cancer.
A recent study by Mexican nutrition experts confirmed that peanuts and peanut oil are rich in beta-gut. It not only has the role of “rich people's disease†in preventing and treating hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia in urban people, but also lowers blood fat and prevents heart disease. Anti-cancer function. As a natural nutrient component in plants, β-fixmyl alcohol protects the heart and brain blood vessels by removing residual substances from the intestinal wall, activating cells, and lowering cholesterol in the blood.
In addition, a cardiovascular epidemiological survey of residents of the Mediterranean coast found that although local residents consumed high-fat diets, because they mainly use olive oil based on oleic acid, the incidence of cardiovascular disease is rather low. This is the magical "Mediterranean meal pattern." After rigorous scientific experiments, scientists concluded that the risk of cardiovascular disease, edible olive oil can be reduced by 25%, eating peanut oil and peanut food can be reduced by 21%.
The results of the Chinese Preventive Medical School test showed that the zinc content per 100 grams of peanut oil reached 8.48 milligrams, which was 7 times that of salad oil, 16 times that of rapeseed oil, and 7 times that of soybean oil. Zinc can promote the development of children's brains, activate the brain cells of the elderly, and have a special effect on anti-aging.
In addition, peanuts and peanut products are low-glycemic index foods and play an important role in blood sugar and diabetes control. As nuts, peanuts can increase the consumption of excess energy, reduce the accumulation of fat in the body, and have a certain auxiliary effect on weight loss. Peanut and peanut oil rich in nutrients, such as vitamin E, folic acid, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B, and certain minerals magnesium, copper, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, iron, calcium, as a healthy diet The nutritional supplements have their important role.
Today, the pursuit of healthy and nutritious diet has become a topic of increasing concern for the people. With the results of research on peanut nutrition and health care, peanuts known as “longevity fruit†are bringing more surprises to the people. The fragrant peanut oil not only possesses all the characteristics of olive oil, but also is more easily accepted by the average working class in terms of cost performance, and its unique quality is more suitable for Chinese people to pay attention to traditional eating habits of color, smell and taste.
From the above studies, it can be seen that peanuts and peanut products have a good effect on reducing blood fat and preventing cardiovascular diseases. Especially for the middle-aged and the elderly, choosing to eat a certain amount of peanuts every day or using peanut oil as a cooking oil can also be as healthy as the elderly in the Mediterranean region, far from the dangers of cardiovascular diseases.