Peanuts, especially red peanuts, contain a lot of phenols, which are very beneficial to human body, especially women, and have skin care and anti-aging effects. As long as your peanuts are fresh and not spoiled, a lot of phenols will remain in the water after soaking, and so will the water after boiling peanuts, which is beneficial and harmless to drink.

1. Boiled peanuts can well retain their nutrients and medicinal components, and are very delicious, which is beneficial to human health after eating. Therefore, peanuts are best cooked.

2. Peanut's blood-enriching and hemostatic effects are mainly "red". Peanut is recognized as a healthy food all over the world, and it is considered as one of the "Top Ten longevity food" in China. Chinese medicine believes that the role of peanuts is to reconcile the spleen and stomach, replenish blood and stop bleeding, and reduce blood pressure and lipid. Among them, the function of "enriching blood and stopping bleeding" is mainly because of the red coat outside peanuts.

3. According to the theory of "spleen governing blood" in TCM, people with qi deficiency are prone to bleeding. Peanut in red can nourish blood and stop bleeding because it can replenish the qi of the spleen and stomach, which is called "invigorating qi and stopping bleeding" by Chinese medicine.

Western medicine believes that peanut red coat can inhibit fibrinolysis, increase platelet content, improve platelet quality, improve coagulation factor defect, strengthen capillary contraction function and promote bone marrow hematopoietic function. Therefore, it has obvious curative effect on various bleeding and anemia and aplastic anemia caused by bleeding.

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Matters needing attention

1. Because peanuts are high-energy foods, diabetics need to control their daily total energy intake. Do not use more than 30 grams of oil every day, but 18 peanuts is equivalent to 10 grams of oil. Eating peanuts can easily make the total energy exceed the control amount.

2. The principle of diet therapy for patients with hyperlipoproteinemia is to limit calories and reduce the intake of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol. Eating more high-calorie and high-fat peanuts is bound to aggravate the symptoms.

3. Patients with gastric ulcer, chronic gastritis and chronic enteritis should have a light diet, while peanuts belong to nuts, and protein and fat content are very high, so it is best not to eat them; Peanuts are rich in oil, so people with cold and wet diarrhea should not eat them.

4. If gout patients still eat peanuts during gout, high fat will reduce uric acid excretion, thus aggravating the condition; Bile produced by gallbladder can effectively digest the fat ingested by human body, but the consumption of peanuts by cholecystectomy patients will affect the digestion of fat.

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