Why are peanuts called "growing fruit"?
Peanut is a delicious and nutritious food known as the "eternal fruit". However, many people are attracted by the delicious taste of peanut, but do not really "understand", neither its nutritional value, do not understand its specific effects. Today, People's Daily Science China introduces the nutrition and function of peanuts, let's have a look.
First of all, the nutritional value of peanuts is high. Modern pharmacological studies have found that peanut is moist and greasy, with a very high fat content, up to 45%~50%, of which about 80% are unsaturated fatty acids. Peanuts are also rich in protein, up to 25%~30%. Peanuts also contain riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, selenium, lecithin, choline, vitamin E, vitamin K, B vitamins and so on.