Does the consumption of peanuts raise or lower blood pressure?

Aunt Li is 68 years old and has a 20-year history of hypertension. Before seeing online articles said to eat peanuts to lower blood pressure and unblock blood vessels, so she bought a lot of peanuts, nothing to do at home will eat a few.

One day, a friend came home to visit, and Auntie Li took out peanuts to entertain her friend. "You also have high blood pressure, hurry up and eat more peanuts!" Auntie Li said while taking out her cell phone to show relevant articles to her friend.

Unexpectedly, the friend refused and said, "Peanuts are used to extract oil, so much fat, eat to raise blood pressure right!" After listening to the words of friends, Auntie Li's heart can not help but wonder: eating peanuts, in the end, to lower blood pressure or blood pressure?

First, the consumption of peanuts is to raise blood pressure or lower blood pressure?

Peanuts are rich in carbohydrates, protein, fat, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals, and other nutrients, which unsaturated fatty acids, oleic acid, niacin and magnesium, and other components do help prevent the formation of blood vessel plaque and promote heart health.

Dr. Wang Xiaohuan, a medical doctor at Fudan University, pointed out that although many fruits and vegetables, including peanuts, are believed to lower blood pressure, the actual blood pressure-lowering effect of peanuts is quite limited, want to play the role of blood pressure-lowering ingredients in peanuts may need to eat into the number of tons.

Moreover, the healing component of food is insignificant, and it is almost impossible to rely on eating a certain food to cure a disease. Therefore, eating peanuts does not lower blood pressure.

So does eating peanuts raise blood pressure? Dr. Wang further explained that excessive sodium intake in the diet can indeed trigger high blood pressure, but peanuts do not belong to high-sodium food, so do not worry about eating peanuts will lead to increased blood pressure.

Second, peanuts contain a lot of fat, which cardiovascular disease patients can not eat.

Many people believe that peanuts are high in calories and contain a lot of fat, eaten easily makes people fat, so peanuts are usually excluded from the weight loss diet. However, a moderate amount of peanuts, but is conducive to improving metabolism.

A clinical nutrition intervention study conducted by the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with East China Hospital of Fudan University found that replacing isoenergetic refined grains with peanuts not only did not lead to weight gain but also improved the overall risk of metabolic syndrome.

The study recruited 224 volunteers and randomized them into a peanut group (eating lightly salted roasted peanuts daily) and a white rice group (eating white rice cakes daily). Results after the 12-week trial showed that participants in the peanut group had a 34.5% reversal rate of metabolic syndrome, which was 2.33 times higher than the white rice group.

Overall, using peanuts as a snack can improve cardiovascular metabolism without promoting weight gain. Therefore, patients with cardiovascular disease are allowed to eat peanuts appropriately.

And really can not eat peanuts are the following five groups of people.

Young children

Because peanut particles are large, and not easy to chew, and the swallowing function of young children under 3 years old is not mature, so young children may eat peanuts because joking, choking, and coughing peanuts slipped into the respiratory tract, which can easily lead to danger.

Patients with cholecystitis

After a person eats, the gallbladder will contract to expel bile, thus helping to digest food. Among the three major nutrients, fat is the most capable of causing strong contraction of the gallbladder. Peanuts have a high-fat content, so patients with cholecystitis should not eat peanuts during acute attacks and after surgery to avoid triggering or aggravating the disease.

As for patients with chronic cholecystitis, it is possible to eat peanuts in small amounts when the gallbladder is not attacked, but pay attention to controlling the intake of fatty foods and try to avoid excessive fat intake at one time, otherwise, it may induce acute cholecystitis.

People allergic to peanuts

Some people may be allergic to peanuts if accidentally eaten, which may cause skin itching, throat edema, and other allergic reactions, and in serious cases can be fatal. This group of people should not only abstain from eating peanuts daily but also pay attention to avoid eating food containing peanut ingredients.

Gout patients

The purine content of peanuts is high, containing about 85 mg of purine per 100 grams, it is recommended that gout patients should avoid eating peanuts during acute attacks, and wait until the disease is in remission before they can eat some in moderation according to the advice of your doctor and your situation.

People with diarrhea

Peanuts are rich in fats and dietary fiber, both of which have a laxative effect, so people with diarrhea and symptoms of acute infection of the digestive tract should temporarily abstain from eating peanuts to avoid aggravating the condition.

Third, peanuts so eat, to protect the blood vessels

In daily life, we should pay attention to the following matters when eating peanuts.

1, eat in moderation

The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)" recommends a weekly intake of about 70 grams of nuts, which means that you can eat about 10 grams of peanuts every day (about half a cupped amount).

In addition, we should also pay attention to controlling the total intake of fats and oils, you can use unsaturated fat content of peanuts instead of lard, butter and palm oil, and other saturated fat content, usually, if you eat peanuts, you should properly reduce the intake of other fatty foods.

2, pay attention to the production method

Fried peanuts, roasted peanuts, salt-baked peanuts, five spice peanuts, sweet peanuts, etc., in production, will not only cause more nutritional loss but also easy to make peanuts attached to a lot of salt, sugar, and oil, eat easily cause "three high" and cardiovascular disease.

It is recommended that when eating peanuts try to choose steam, boiling, stewing and boiling and other cooking methods that use less oil, for example, can be used to boil porridge, soup, or stew, which is healthier to eat.

3, selection and preservation

Peanuts and their related products are susceptible to aflatoxin contamination, aflatoxin is a very strong hepatotoxic and carcinogenic substance, and long-term consumption of peanuts contaminated by aflatoxin can be a serious health threat.

Therefore, it is recommended to buy peanuts to choose regular manufacturers, do not buy roadside peanuts from unknown sources; try to choose a small package, eat while fresh, if you do not finish hard seal up, put them in a dry, ventilated place to avoid moisture and mold; once found that peanuts moldy, do not eat again.

Peanuts are rich in nutrients, as long as they are not consumed in excess will not make people fat, but also have many benefits to the body. It is recommended that you can eat 4-5 peanuts every day, try to eat unseasoned, with less oil cooking, and eat the best with the skin together.