Benefits of peanut butter
Benefits of peanut butter. Peanuts are eaten everywhere in the world. Some people like to eat them raw, others roast it and chew in different kinds of snacks while some prefer to fry and prepare the butter. Let us in this article find out the benefits of its butter.
Like most real foods, peanut butter contains more than just the basic vitamins and minerals. It also contains plenty of other biologically active nutrients, which can have some health benefits.
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PEANUT BUTTER IS FULL OF ANTIOXIDANTS
The role of antioxidants cannot be overemphasized. The antioxidants in peanut butter is voluminous and the quality is high, some of them are p-coumaric. This is a type of acid that helps to beat down the development of arthritis according to some studies.
One other antioxidant contained in peanut butter is reveratrol. This is the compound that helps you to reduce drastically the chances of you getting heart related conditions.. Apart from that it also provides assistance in reducing the chances of getting other chronic conditions according to some research work.
A WORD OF CAUTION
This part of this piece is to caution consumers of peanut about eating peanut that has not been processed at all. These could contain what is known as aflatoxins per some studies. Aflatoxins could be dangerous to your health. This is because of the chance of them having a certain type of mold, this mold is called aspergillus. Aspergillus is the root source of aflatoxins and is rated as one of the potential hazards to human health.
Per information from the National Cancer Institute in the United States, there is yet to be any disease linked to these aflatoxins in the USA, but in less developed parts of the world this is not the case. According to some research work, some countries in other parts of the world have recorded such cases.
Because of this, eat peanut that is unprocessed with care.