A handful of peanuts twice a day before meals can contribute to weight loss and lower blood pressure, new research from the University of South Australia (UniSA) has found.
In collaboration with Texas Tech University, the UniSA study assessed two groups of Australian adults at moderate to high risk of type 2 diabetes, testing the effect of consuming 70 grams of lightly salted dry-roasted peanuts daily on top of a weight loss diet, as opposed to a traditional low-fat weight loss diet.
The ‘peanut group’ ate 35 grams of peanuts 30 minutes before two of their main meals, whereas the control group did not consume peanuts or peanut butter at all, and both groups restricted their energy intakes to 5,500kJ for women and 7,000kJ for men, in addition to keeping their exercise patterns constant throughout the study period….