Compared with rice and millet, the edible history of peanut in China is not long. Even so, peanut has won the reputation of "evergreen fruit" and "the emperor of vegetable". Modern scientific nutrition research reveals more secrets of peanuts: eating peanuts and nuts often reduces the incidence rate of modern "civilization diseases" and significantly improves the nutritional and health status of human beings.
Studies have shown that peanuts are high energy, high protein and high lipid plant foods, rich in micronutrients and plant active compounds, which play an important role in balancing diet nutrition, preventing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity. Moreover, a research team in Huntsville recently found that peanut contains plant active substances with strong antioxidant properties, which can prevent the damage of degenerative diseases, inhibit the growth of cancer and anti-aging, etc.
One hundred years ago, the emergence of peanut butter not only successfully solved the problem of elderly patients getting enough nutrition, but also made peanut popular in the United States. Nowadays, peanuts are widely used in healthy diet in the Mediterranean region, the American Heart Association strongly advocates eating peanut oil, and Harvard University has designed a popular peanut diet to lose weight; Peanuts and their products have become an essential food for more and more European and American families; Peanut oil and olive oil are listed as healthy and fashionable nut oil.
