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Boiled Peanuts help protect against illness.

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.

“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.

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.

Alabama is third in the nation in the amount of peanuts produced with a crop valued at more than $67 million last year.

Mississippi is number 1 in the nation in per capita consumption of boiled peanuts.

OK, I just made that up. Heh.

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at 10/27/2007 9:36:09 PM

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at 10/27/2007 9:25:04 PM

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at 10/27/2007 9:23:07 PM

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at 10/27/2007 9:21:17 PM

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at 10/27/2007 8:24:51 PM

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at 10/27/2007 7:59:47 PM

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at 10/27/2007 7:48:59 PM

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at 10/27/2007 7:44:31 PM

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Comment posted by Nuke
at 10/28/2007 11:06:35 PM

I ate all the peanuts for health reasons, yeah that’s it. On doctor’s orders.

Comment posted by Melissa
at 10/28/2007 10:38:45 PM

OK, Dad– I think this is just your excuse for eatting all the boiled peanuts ( WHOLE POT) and leaving Mom half a bowl. mmmhmm.

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