Many people have eaten braised peanuts in a pot in their daily life, which is a very good dish. When making it, you need to prepare some spices, as well as the five spices used when braising meat, and Sichuan pepper is an indispensable ingredient in braising peanuts, along with some cassia bark.

Colorful peanuts come from the color variation of the kernel pericarp of common peanuts, producing a variety of colors. Colorful peanuts are mainly divided into several varieties such as selenium-rich black peanuts, white jade peanuts, and pearl peanuts, among which the kernel pericarp color can be further divided into black, purple black, white, purple red, red white, and colorful grain, etc. The colors of the five-color peanuts include black, snow white, white with red patterns, black with yellow patterns, and yellow with black patterns. The vines grown are not different from those of common peanuts, but the leaves are slightly larger. They can be divided into two black grains, four black grains, two colorful grains, four colorful grains, double flower grains, and double white grains according to grain color.

Flavor, meridian tropism and medicinal use:

Flavor and meridian tropism: sweet, mild, entering the spleen and lung meridians.

Functional effects: strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote kidney diuresis, regulate qi and promote lactation, treat various blood diseases.

Vitamin K in peanuts has a hemostatic effect. The hemostatic effect of the red skin of peanuts is 50 times higher than that of peanuts, and it has a good hemostatic effect on various bleeding diseases.

Peanuts contain vitamin E and a certain amount of zinc, which can enhance memory, anti-aging, delay the decline of brain function, and moisturize the skin.

The vitamin C in peanuts has the effect of reducing cholesterol, which helps prevent atherosclerosis, hypertension, and coronary heart disease.

The trace element selenium and another bioactive substance, resveratrol, in peanuts can prevent and treat tumor diseases, and are also chemical preventive agents for preventing platelet aggregation, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Peanuts have the effects of reinforcing the body, benefiting the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm, nourishing and regulating the qi, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, stopping bleeding and promoting lactation, clearing the throat and stopping malaria.