Why are peanuts called "growing fruit"?

Peanut is a delicious and nutritious food known as the "eternal fruit". However, many people are attracted by the delicious taste of peanut, but do not really "understand", neither its nutritional value, do not understand its specific effects. Today, People's Daily Science China introduces the nutrition and function of peanuts, let's have a look.

First of all, the nutritional value of peanuts is high. Modern pharmacological studies have found that peanut is moist and greasy, with a very high fat content, up to 45%~50%, of which about 80% are unsaturated fatty acids. Peanuts are also rich in protein, up to 25%~30%. Peanuts also contain riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, selenium, lecithin, choline, vitamin E, vitamin K, B vitamins and so on.

Secondly, peanuts also have many functions. The peanut is known as the "eternal fruit" and is also known as the "meat in vegetable". Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, flower natural disposition is flat, taste sweet, enter the spleen, lung classics, can xing PI and stomach, embellish lung to change phlegm, nourishing adjust gas, clear pharynx to stop cough, cure is malnourishment, little body is weak, dry cough little phlegm, hemoptysis, skin purple spot, puerpera milk little and defecate dry knot wait for disease.

In addition, peanuts are "high satiety" food, if eat peanuts or peanut butter at breakfast, can reduce the amount of food intake on this day, and thus contribute to weight loss; Eating peanuts can also stabilize blood sugar and is good for heart health.

While there are many benefits to eating peanuts, there are also taboos:

1. Peanuts contain a lot of protein, and digestion of too much protein will increase the burden of the intestinal tract, so indigestion should eat peanuts less.

2. After entering the intestines and stomach, raw peanuts have the effect of sliding intestines, and eating more can easily lead to diarrhea. Therefore, some gastric acid patients use the method of eating raw peanuts to relieve stomach discomfort in a timely manner, and should not eat too much.

3. High protein and high fat food will stimulate the gallbladder, promote the secretion of a large number of bile, so when patients with liver and gallbladder disease eat peanuts, it is best to choose the way of cooking, avoid frying, oil Fried, and should be a small number of times to eat.

4. Peanuts contain a lot of fat, eating more easy to promote the skin follicle secretion of more oil, so oily skin should not eat too much peanuts.