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| 2007-10-27 |
| Boiled Nuts Help Protect Against Illness No, it's not what you guttersnipes think. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - For lovers of boiled peanuts, there's some good news from the health front. A new study by a group of Huntsville researchers found that boiled peanuts bring out up to four times more chemicals that help protect against disease than raw, dry or oil-roasted nuts. Lloyd Walker, chair of Alabama A&M University's Department of Food and Animal Sciences who co-authored the study, said these phytochemicals have antioxidant qualities that protect cells against the risk of degenerative diseases, including cancers, diabetes and heart disease. The perfect food! We Southerners aren't dumb after all! "Boiling is a better method of preparing peanuts in order to preserve these phytochemicals," Walker said. The study will appear in Wednesday's edition of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The other co-authors in the study are A&M researchers Yvonne Chukwumah and Martha Verghese, as well as University of Alabama in Huntsville researcher Bernhard Vogler. Don't sound like Southerners to me. Walker said peanuts and other plants use phytochemicals for things such as helping avoid disease and insect attacks. "These things are not nutrients; at the same time they have health benefits to humans," he told The Birmingham News. "The trick is to keep those health benefits, not to process them out of the foods." According to Walker, water and heat penetrate the nuts, releasing beneficial chemicals to a certain point. Overcooking the nuts destroys the useful elements. So don't over-cook your nuts! Alabama is third in the nation in the amount of peanuts produced with a crop valued at more than $67 million last year. Dothan, Alabama. The Peanut Capitol of the World! |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #4 http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/BoiledPeanutsHistory.htm For those of you not in the know. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-10-27 22:36 |
| #3 Overcooking the nuts destroys the useful elements. As is so often the case. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-27 21:14 |
| #2 "these phytochemicals have antioxidant qualities that protect cells against the risk of degenerative diseases, including cancers, diabetes and heart disease" That would account for why Jimmy Carter is still a pain in the behind more than a quarter century after being thrown out of the White House. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2007-10-27 20:24 |
| #1 I'm still a dry-roasted Planter's Cocktail Peanuts guy....never worried they might/might not be a health food... oh, and the Unsalted are for those who'll live to be a hundred and regret never having food that tastes good |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-27 20:16 |