Peanuts can be eaten at any time. When you're hungry, you can have them as a snack; when you're drinking, you can have them as a side dish. However, it's important to note that not everyone can eat peanuts. There are six types of people who should avoid them.
1. Gout patients: Gout is a disease caused by purine metabolism disorders, and patients all have hyperuricemia. Since a high-fat diet reduces uric acid excretion and worsens the condition, peanuts should be avoided during an acute attack of gout, and only a moderate amount can be consumed during the remission period.
2. People who have had their gallbladder removed: Bile is important for the digestion and absorption of fat. After a meal, the gallbladder contracts to release bile into the duodenum to aid digestion and absorption. High-protein and high-fat foods strongly stimulate the gallbladder, causing a large release of bile. After gallbladder removal, bile cannot be stored, which will inevitably affect the digestion of fat in oil crops like peanuts.
3. Patients with gastric ulcers, chronic gastritis, or chronic enteritis: These patients often have symptoms such as chronic abdominal pain, diarrhea, or indigestion. Their diet should consist of small, frequent meals that are light and low in oil. Peanuts are a type of nut with excessively high protein and fat content, making them difficult to digest and absorb. Such patients should avoid them.
4. People who want to lose weight: Peanuts are very high in calories and fat. Eating two liang (100g) of roasted peanuts consumes 581 kilocalories of energy, which is equivalent to eating five and a half liang (275g) of steamed buns. Therefore, people trying to lose weight should stay away from peanuts.
5. Diabetics: Diabetics need to control their total daily energy intake, so the daily cooking oil should not exceed three tablespoons (30g). However, just 18 peanuts are equivalent to one tablespoon of oil (10g) and can produce 90 kilocalories of heat.
6. Patients with hyperlipoproteinemia: An unreasonable diet is a major cause of hyperlipoproteinemia. Therefore, the principle of dietary treatment is to limit calories and reduce the intake of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol. Peanuts are high in fat and calories, and eating more will only worsen the condition, leading to life-threatening cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease.
After reading the above, everyone knows that peanuts are crispy, delicious, nutritious, and inexpensive, making them a snack loved by people of all ages. But if you belong to one of the six groups mentioned above, peanuts will be more harmful than beneficial to you. Therefore, you must pay attention to this: for the sake of your health, you must not eat peanuts indiscriminately.