Dr Juhi Gulati Amla
Winter is a healthy season and one thing for which we all develop craving during this time is delicious, crunchy, and nutty peanuts. Peanuts are one of the popular oil seeds known to humankind since ancient times. The nuts are enriched with many noteworthy health-benefiting nutrients that are essential for optimum health. They are actually legumes but have almost all the qualities that true nuts like almonds have.
Reasons to enjoy peanuts
* Rich in energy and contain many health benefiting nutrients, minerals, antioxidants and vatamins that are essential for optimum health.
* Rich in mono-unsaturated fatty acids like oleic acids that help to lower LDL or “bad cholesterol’ and increase HDL or “good cholesterol’’.
* Good source of dietary protein compose fine quality amino acids that are essential for growth and devlopment.
* Excellent source of vitamin E (a -tocopherol; containing about sperioog.
* Rich source of minerals like copper, manganese, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesim, zinc, and selenium.
* Packed with many important B-complex groups of vitamins such as riboflavin, niacin, thaimin, pantothenic acid, vitamin B-6, and folates.
* Contains anti-carcinogenic agents-p-coumaric acid.
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