Nutritional value of peanuts

Peanuts are higher in calories than meat, 20% higher than milk, and 40% higher than eggs. Others such as protein, riboprotein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. are also higher than milk, meat, eggs, etc. Peanuts also contain vitamins A, B, E, K, etc., as well as lecithin, protein amino acids, choline and oleic acid, arachidic acid, fatty acids, palmitic acid, etc.

Nutritional efficacy

1. Promote growth and development: Peanuts are rich in vitamins and minerals, which can promote the growth and development of the human body.

2. Brain-building and intelligence-enhancing: Peanut protein contains more than ten kinds of amino acids needed by the human body, among which lysine can improve children's intelligence, glutamic acid and aspartic acid can promote cell development and enhance the memory ability of the brain.

3. Anti-aging: The catechin contained in peanuts has a strong anti-aging effect on the human body, and lysine is also an important component to prevent premature aging. Eating peanuts regularly is beneficial to the human body to delay aging, so peanuts are also called "longevity fruit".

4. Moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough: Peanuts are rich in fatty acids, which can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. It is often used for chronic cough, asthma, expectoration of blood and other diseases.

5. Coagulation and hemostasis: Peanut membrane contains oil and a variety of vitamins, and contains substances that shorten the coagulation time, can resist the dissolution of fibrin, and have the function of promoting bone marrow to produce platelets. It can not only stop bleeding for various bleeding diseases. It has a certain therapeutic effect on the primary disease and is beneficial to human hematopoietic function.

6. Lower cholesterol: prevent coronary heart disease. Peanut oil contains a large amount of linoleic acid, which can decompose cholesterol in the human body into bile acids and excrete it. Avoid the deposition of cholesterol in the body, reduce the incidence of high cholesterol, and prevent coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. In addition, peanuts contain a natural polyphenolic substance with strong biological activity—resveratrol, which can prevent the occurrence and development of cancer, and has anti-atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, ischemic heart disease, and hyperlipidemia. preventive effect.

7. Nourishing blood and promoting milk: Peanuts are rich in fatty acids and protein, which can nourish qi and blood, nourish blood and promote milk for those who have insufficient milk after childbirth.

8. Anti-cancer: When the soluble fiber in the peanut fiber tissue is digested and absorbed by the human body, it will absorb liquid and other substances like a sponge, and then expand into an adhesive body to be excreted with the feces. When these objects pass through the intestinal tract, they come into contact with many harmful substances and absorb certain toxins, thereby reducing the accumulation of harmful substances in the body and the resulting toxic effects, reducing the chance of intestinal cancer.