Peanuts
Peanut is one of the most famous plant species, which is considered to be one of the best sources of plant proteins. Peanuts are also known as nuts, which are eaten toasted, salted, smoked, peanut butter, The benefits of the great, and the intervention in the preparation of many food items, and in the preparation of a lot of candy, and South American countries, and especially Brazil, is the original home from which spread peanut cultivation.
Benefits of peanuts
- A rich source of calories, energy, to contain peanuts on many important vitamins and minerals, and antioxidants.
- Reduces the level of harmful cholesterol in the body, and raises the level of cholesterol useful, so as to contain peanuts high proportions of unsaturated fatty acids, especially oleic acid, which protects against cardiovascular disease.
- Helps the growth of the body, providing it with important nutrients, also contains essential amino acids, which the body has proteins using.
- It protects against many types of cancers, especially stomach cancer, colon cancer, peanut containment of polyphenols, and bicomaric acid, which reduce nitrous production, and many amino acids producing cancer cells.
- Protects the body from cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, many infections, and diseases caused by fungal or viral infections.
- Reduces the risk of stroke, because it contains resveratrol, a powerful antioxidant, increases the production of nitric oxide, which prevents stroke.
- Promotes healthy skin, contains high amounts of vitamin E, which gives skin freshness, smoothness and vitality, maintains healthy mucous membranes, eliminates the free radicals of cancer cells, and prevents skin cancer.
- It contains niacin, thiamin, vitamin B6, and vitamin B9, which are very important in preventing the body from many diseases.
- Contains many minerals, such as potassium, copper, calcium, manganese, zinc, selsenium, and iron, which play an important role in the body’s vital functions.
- Helps to treat gallstones, and prevents their formation again.
- Helps maintain an ideal weight, when eating peanuts twice a week, because it enhances the feeling of fullness.
- Increases fertility in men and women, and reduces the possibility of abnormalities in the fetus, because it contains high levels of folic acid.
- Helps regulate blood sugar, because it contains manganese, which regulates metabolism, helps in the absorption of carbohydrates and fats, and regulates their digestion process.
- Reduces depression, and stimulates the body to secrete the hormone serotonin, which is responsible for feeling happy, because it contains tryptophan, which stimulates the secretion of this hormone.
- It treats acne, reduces the appearance of pimples and spots on the skin, prevents eczema, relieves the symptoms of skin psoriasis, and rashes.
- Peanuts contain a high amount of fiber, which purifies the body of toxins, and prevent constipation, and regulate the level of sugar in the blood.