Seeing that it is almost the New Year, have you bought enough nuts?
There are many kinds of nuts, but to ask which one is delicious and nourishing, and the cost performance is high, it is not peanuts.
Without further ado, let's talk about peanuts today
Peanuts are both "longevity fruits" and "vascular scavengers"
Chinese medicine believes that peanuts have a sweet and flat taste, can moisten the lungs, nourish the spleen and stomach, and tonify the qi, and have the reputation of "longevity fruit".
From a nutritional point of view, peanuts are quite nutritious, such as:
Peanuts are more protein-rich than eggs. Each 100 grams of peanuts contains about 20 grams to 25 grams of protein, which is 1.5 to 2 times the protein content of eggs;
Peanuts have a high content of lysine, lysine is an essential amino acid of the human body, which cannot be synthesized in the body and can only be obtained through food intake;
Peanuts contain a large amount of vitamin E, vitamin B, a variety of minerals (such as potassium, calcium, iron, zinc, selenium, etc.) and active substances lecithin, choline, etc.;
Peanuts are rich in plant sterols, including resveratrol, β-sitosterol, and plant isoflavones.
These ingredients not only have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant effects, but also help to reduce the content of total cholesterol and harmful cholesterol in the blood, and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases;
In addition, peanuts are a high-fat food, containing about 45 grams of fat per 100 grams of peanuts.
However, it is worth mentioning that the fatty acids contained in peanuts, most of which are unsaturated fatty acids, help to improve the composition of blood lipids, and it also does not contain cholesterol, and is known as "vascular scavenger".
Having said so much about the benefits of peanuts, it's time to talk about how to eat peanuts
Peanuts are eaten in many ways, but the most recommended is...
1. Boiled peanuts
Boiled peanuts are delicious, and most of their nutrients and medicinal ingredients can be basically retained. However, boiled peanuts add a lot of condiments, especially salt, so everyone should be wary of their high salt risk.
2. Sauté peanuts, fried peanuts
After peanuts are fried or fried at high temperatures, 80% of vitamin B1 will be destroyed, and protein, cellulose and fresh peanut coats will be partially or completely carbonized, so that their nutritional value and medicinal value will be reduced.
In addition, fried peanuts to be fried thoroughly, need a lot of oil, and high-oil diet on the human body is innumerable harms, such as fat, indigestion, blood lipids and blood viscosity increased, over time can cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
3. Season peanuts
Salted dried peanuts, sea salt peanuts, spiced peanuts, seaweed peanuts, etc. need to be soaked with salt or added other flavoring agents during the processing process, so they are not healthy in themselves.
In addition, after the peanuts are seasoned, it is not conducive to people to identify the quality of raw materials, and the possibility of peanuts being contaminated with aflatoxin is higher.
Therefore, if you eat bitter peanuts, you must spit them out in time and rinse your mouth fully.
4. Original peanuts
Raw peanuts have not been processed in any way and have no loss of nutrients. However, it has a greater chance of contamination during storage. Especially in humid environments, it is very susceptible to aflatoxin infection, and once germinated, the risk of contamination is higher.
Therefore, when storing peanuts, be sure to seal them and store them in a dry and ventilated place.
In general, even if there are many ways to eat peanuts, it is still the best original taste.
However, many people in life dislike the original peanut taste is somewhat dull, neither as fragrant as boiled peanuts, nor as crispy as fried peanuts.
In fact, as long as the original peanut is equipped with a "golden partner", not only the taste is rapidly improved, but the health effect is also quite good! For example, the following collocations ~
Peanuts meet it, more nourishing than eggs, more qi than astragalus
1. Peanuts with yam: healthy spleen and lungs, good qi and nourish blood
Peanut yam porridge
Ingredients: 50 grams of peanuts, 50 grams of Huaishan, 100 grams of japonica rice, rock sugar to taste
Directions: Mash the yam first, then cook the porridge with japonica rice and peanuts in the right amount of water, and then add rock sugar after cooking.
Health effect: This porridge has the function of strengthening the spleen and lungs, nourishing the qi and nourishing the blood, beautifying the face and moisturizing the lips, especially for people who are weak and thin, pale and pale.
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2. Peanuts with millet: tonic, calm and warm the stomach
Peanut millet porridge
Ingredients: 50 grams of peanuts and millet, 10 dates, 30 grams of honey
Directions: Bring millet and peanuts to a boil in a pot, bring to a boil on high heat and add dates and honey.
Health benefits: peanut tonic, millet to calm the nerves, jujube tonic qi. Cooked together into porridge, it has the function of tonifying and nourishing qi, calming the nerves, warming the stomach and relieving fatigue.
3. Peanuts with lean meat, raw land: nourish the yin and jin, clear the heat and cool the blood
Raw peanut lean broth
Ingredients: 100 grams of peanuts, 500 grams of lean meat, 60 to 100 grams of raw land
Directions: Add an appropriate amount of water to all ingredients and simmer for about 1 hour.
Health benefits: This soup can nourish yin and vitality, clear heat and cool blood.
4. Peanuts with pig's feet and red dates: replenish qi and blood, strengthen spleen and stomach
Pork knuckle with peanuts and red dates
Ingredients: 100 grams of peanuts, 5 red dates, 1 pair of pork knuckles, salt to taste
method:
After washing peanuts and dates, soak them in water for a while, remove the hair, nails, etc., wash and cut into pieces, blanch to remove blood and water for later;
Put peanuts, red dates, and pig's feet together into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over a low flame, continue to simmer for about 3 hours, add an appropriate amount of salt, and eat.
Health effect: pig's trotters replenish qi and blood, milk, peanut spleen and stomach, especially suitable for women to eat in moderation during lactation.
5. Peanuts with guiyuan: tonic qi wins astragalus, supplemental false race eggs
Peanut cinnamon round red date soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of peanuts, 15 grams of guiyuan, 10 red dates, rock sugar to taste
Directions: Cook all the ingredients with water, or add an appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste.
Health benefits: Many doctors believe that the tonic effect of guiyuan is stronger than ginseng and astragalus. In addition, peanuts and dates can replenish qi and blood, and the protein content of peanuts is higher than that of eggs. The three are boiled together, and the effect of replenishing qi and blood, helping sleep and replenishing deficiency is remarkable.
6. Peanuts with papaya and chicken feet: relieve fatigue and strengthen bones
Peanut papaya chicken foot soup
Ingredients: 80 grams of peanuts, 1 semi-cooked papaya, 5 pairs of chicken feet, 300 grams of minced pork bones, 3 slices of ginger
Method: Wash all the raw materials, peel and cut the papaya, crack the chicken feet and broken pork bones with the back of the knife, put the ginger into the clay pot together, add 2500 ml of water, boil over low heat, change the heat to cook for 2 hours, and add the appropriate amount of salt.
Health Benefits: This soup can refresh and relieve fatigue and strengthen the body.
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