Which is better, eating raw peanuts or roasted peanuts?

Peanuts are also known as groundnuts and dicotyledonous plants. The seeds are covered with peanut peels. Historically, they were called longevity fruit, ground beans, fallen flower ginseng, ground pine, longevity fruit, fan beans, figs, ground fruit, and Tangren beans. Peanuts are nourishing and beneficial, and help prolong life, so they are also called "longevity fruit" by the people. Like soybeans, they are also known as "plant meat" and "vegetarian meat". Peanuts have a high protein content and are easily absorbed and utilized by the human body. They contain a lot of unsaturated fatty acids and other nutrients.

The efficacy and function of peanuts

1. Lower cholesterol: Peanut oil contains a large amount of linoleic acid, which can break down cholesterol in the human body into bile acid and excrete it out of the body, avoiding the deposition of cholesterol in the body and reducing the incidence of various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases caused by cholesterol exceeding normal values ​​in the human body.

2. Delaying human aging: The zinc content in peanuts is generally higher than that in other oil crops. Zinc can promote the development of children's brains, enhance the brain's memory function, activate brain cells in middle-aged and elderly people, effectively delay premature aging of the human body, and has anti-aging effects.

3. Promote children's bone development: Peanuts are rich in calcium, which can promote children's bone development

4. Prevent tumors: Peanuts and peanut oil contain a natural polyphenol substance with strong biological activity - resveratrol. Peanuts, peanut oil and other related peanut products rich in resveratrol will play a greater role in diet and health.

According to the 6th edition of the standard version of "Chinese Food Composition Table", every 100 grams of peanut kernels (raw) contains 6.9 grams of water, 24.8 grams of protein, 44.3 grams of fat, 21.7 grams of carbohydrates, 5.5 grams of insoluble fiber, 2 grams of ash, 39 milligrams of calcium, 383 milligrams of phosphorus, 2 milligrams of iron, and also contains 0.04 milligrams of carotene, 1.07 milligrams of vitamin B1, 0.11 milligrams of riboflavin, 9.5 milligrams of niacin, etc.

As can be seen from the above table, there is a certain difference in the nutritional content between raw peanuts and fried peanuts, but the difference is not very obvious. Therefore, whether to eat raw peanuts or cooked peanuts can be based on personal preference and taste. Raw peanuts have not been subjected to high temperatures, so the taste is not as fragrant as cooked peanuts, but the vitamins are retained. Fried peanuts are stir-fried at high temperatures, crispy and delicious, and some vitamins are lost. If salt is added during the frying process, the salt intake will be too much. If the gastrointestinal function is good, there is no irritable bowel syndrome, or indigestion, you can try to eat some raw peanuts at ordinary times.

Precautions for eating peanuts

1. Don’t eat a lot of peanuts every day just because they are high in nutritional value. Peanuts contain high fat. For an average healthy person, you can eat about 10 peanuts a day, and you should eat them in alternation with other nuts.

2. Not everyone is suitable for eating peanuts. For example, for people with gallbladder diseases, peanuts contain a lot of protein and fat, which require bile to digest, which will increase the burden on the gallbladder. Peanuts have the effect of lubricating the intestines. People who have diarrhea or weak spleen and stomach should not eat peanuts.

In addition to the above, if the peanuts are moldy, then you must not eat them. Such peanuts contain a large amount of aflatoxin, which will cause liver poisoning once excessive amounts enter the body. If consumed for a long time, the probability of inducing liver cancer will be particularly high, which is very harmful to health.