Saturday Open: Boiled Peanuts are good for you
October 27th, 2007 at 3:58 pm . by nukeLISTEN TO THE Georgia-Florida Game!!! FROM AM930: THE FOX
Dang, Who knew?
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.
Here’s an open thread for Saturday afternoon, watching (or listening to) the world’s largest outdoor cocktail party.
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Here ya go, Swamps!
Thanks, Nuke! I’m listening, but damn if Florida scores, I might have to turn it off in case I’m jinxin’ Georgia.
Yeeeeehaw! LOSE that ball, Gators.
Touchdowwwwwwwwwwwn dawgs!
Doin’ the happy dance. Doin’ the happy dance. I believe I’ll wear my red and black to work again MONDAY. (I was the only person there in red and black Friday.)
What a throw!
/At least it sounded good on the radio.
The announcers said there was still plenty of time for the Gators to win. Lordy, I hope not.
Well, shit.
I can’t stand it. My fingernails are gonna be bitten off soon.
Aaaaargh! TD Gators.
35-30 GA, 9:30 left in the 4thQ.
Just another Bulldawg-Gator ho-hummer
touchdowwwwwwwwn dawgs!
42/30! Woohooo. I think I see the fat lady headed for the microphone.
Oh, the Florida QB gots a sore shoulder and was sacked 6 times.
Agh….19 yard line. Now 11 yard line.
The fat lady just cleared her throat….
Recovered the ball at the 15 yard line! DAMN!
Okay, Georgia, now just play catch for the next 2 minutes.
I don’t care if Georgia wins another game this season. Winning over Florida is good enough.
It’s over! 42-30! great game to watch (or listen to)
The Dawgs beat the Gators. Oh, ain’t that a pretty sound! Final score 42-30 Georgia.
I’m glad Matthew Stafford stepped up and showed what he could do.
I can’t listen to the postgame interviews.
Thanks, Nuke, for letting me listen to the victory
Had that game and the Nebraska game on, switching back and forth, while setting this thing up. Dang…still got a long way to go before I get this thing set-up the way I want. This thing has the Vista Home Premium OS, and it’s not so bad, except it doesn’t have squat for drivers, so have to go the manufacturers websites for the printer and scanner, and this font size has got to be changed….again.
/and I’m now hungry
Oh…way to go Dawgs and Dawgs.
Kentucky never saw it coming.
/henh
And the LSU game isn’t televised…WTF?
open date
Dang, SwampMan is watching a Quentin Tarantino movie. “This kinda sucks….I hope it gets better soon.” “Well, it’s been 5 minutes, somebody is bound to be killed soon.” “Yeah, so it’ll be better any minute now!”
Dang. So much for me watching any television tonight.
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Oh!
Guess that explains it, but my hackles are still up.
Tarantino sux.
Well, I just wandered in, and the pointless killing had begun, so SwampMan is happy.
Well, put the hackles down ‘fore you hurt somebody.
The goldfish were acting all excited and followiing me as I walked past the aquarium and were agitating their little fins, and I realized that I may not have fed them this week. They’re probably working really hard on evolving legs and lungs so they can climb outta that aquarium and kick my ass.
Well, stopped messing with this thing for a while, fixed and ate dinner, now I’m dragging.
I’ve been up since 07:30hrs., and have been messing with this thing since 10:00hrs.
Somebody give me a good or funny sumpin’-sumpin’…quick!
Still can’t figure out how to make firefox my primary browser. It’s installed, but didn’t take over like it did on the old system. I’m still getting the google tool bar on the IE browser.
Any suggestions?
No sumpin sumpin for YOU.
I’m draggin’ myself. Gnight, all. Hope you got your browser thang figured out, n2l, but I hesitate to dredge the depths of my computer knowledge mostly because there are no depths to dredge.
Night, Swampie.
I’ll be back up to normal speed soon.
Just about had it with this thing for now.
Well, glad you’ll be back to normal soon; I missed you when you weren’t around.
OK, Dad– I think this is just your excuse for eatting all the boiled peanuts ( WHOLE POT) and leaving Mom half a bowl. mmmhmm.
I ate all the peanuts for health reasons, yeah that’s it. On doctor’s orders.
Dang No2Liberals — Huskers almost took it to those Longhorns! What the heck, it was a respectable showing compared to others.
How bout Kansas? Granted, their schedule hasn’t been too tough, but they did beat Texas A&M and looked pretty good doing it.
Yeah, kept switching back and forth from the Huskers, to the UGA-Florida game.
The Huskers just don’t have the defense this year, as the running game has killed them in the last four or five games. This season is a wash, but they will be back.
Kansas is for real, and so is Arizona State. Boston College? What a joke, that they are #2. I wouldn’t be surprised if FSU and Miami beat them, as BC has no team speed…but tortoise speed.