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Article: Peanuts appear to offer cardio protection.
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- Emerging Food R&D Report
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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Fat-free peanut flour, whole peanuts and peanut oil all may have cardioprotective properties, results from a new animal study suggest. USDA-ARS scientists presented the findings at this year's Institute of Food Technologists annual meeting.
For the study, male hamsters were randomly divided into four groups. Each group of nearly 20 hamsters was fed one of four different diets, all of which were high-fat and high-cholesterol. Each diet consisted of nearly equal percentages of fats, carbohydrates and proteins. For three of the four test diets, equivalent amounts of food component were substituted with fat-free peanut flour, peanut oil or peanuts without skins. The fourth ...
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