Peanuts are a relatively common food, its small appearance is particularly pleasing, but also by many people as a daily snack, especially by drinkers, is used as a delicious side dish. Peanuts of high nutritional value, moderate consumption of human body has many benefits, generally like to eat peanuts people must have a certain understanding of the benefits of peanuts, and can talk about it, but for peanuts "peanut clothes" but know very little, not to mention the different peanut clothes of the peanut has the nutritional value, people think that peanut colors are common, in fact, it is not, peanuts have 11 kinds of peanut clothes, which color of peanuts is better? To learn more about peanut coats, you need to know these 3 aspects.
1. Definition of peanut coat
Peanut coat refers to the color of peanuts after drying peanuts, the general common peanut clothes have red, pink, white these colors, in addition to the usual relatively rare black, red white, purple black and other colors, the current known peanut cloth color has 11 kinds. At the same time, peanut coats are also known as peanut peels, rich in nutrients, with hemostasis, stasis, swelling effect, but in daily consumption, in order to better taste, people generally choose to rub peanut coats off, in fact, this also caused the loss of peanut nutrition.
2. What color peanuts are the most nutritious?
Peanuts are also called "long-lived fruits", which is enough to see its rich nutritional value, so what is the difference in the nutritional value of peanuts with different peanut coats? From the perspective of nutrition, peanuts with dark peanut coatings are rich in antioxidant polyphenols, and their antioxidant effect is better than that of peanuts with light color, and their protein and trace element content is also higher than that of peanuts with light color. From the perspective of genetics, the darker the peanut coat, the stronger its heritability, such as purple-black is greater than black, red is greater than pink, pink is greater than white, and so on. Because peanuts have a variety of peanut clothing colors, and their nutritional value also has a certain difference, so when you buy peanuts in the market, do not blindly believe that the nutritional value advocated by the merchant is high, and have your own judgment.
3. How to distinguish whether the color of peanuts is natural or artificially dyed?
Peanuts peanut coat color has a natural formation, there are also acquired artificial dyeing, some market merchants in order to make profits, deliberately confuse the nutritional value of peanuts of different colors, advocating that their own peanuts have high nutritional value, but the so-called high-nutrient peanuts are actually artificially dyed, so how to distinguish the peanut color is natural or stained? Peanut seeds are divided into two parts, seed coat and embryo, there are white marks at the tip of the seed coat, if there is no white trace at the tip of the seed coat of the colored peanut, it means that the color of the peanut coat is obtained by artificial dyeing, rather than natural formation. In addition, you can also put the colored peanuts in water to soak, if the water discoloration, while the colored peanuts also appear to fade, it means that the colored peanuts are artificially dyed, on the contrary, the water changes color, the colored peanuts do not change color, then the peanut color is naturally formed.
In addition to the above three aspects of knowledge, in the daily consumption of peanuts, it is recommended that you can keep peanut coats, especially red peanut coats, its rich nutritional value will not be lower than peanut kernels, but also need to remind everyone that in the daily purchase of peanuts do not blindly believe the merchant's boasting, so as not to buy artificially dyed peanuts, not only lose money, long-term eating artificially dyed peanuts, may also have a certain impact on health.
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