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New Research Presented on Peanut Components 6-30-08
Fat free peanut flour, whole peanuts and peanut oil all may have
cardio-protective properties, results from a new animal study suggest.
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are presenting the findings at
this week's Institute of Food Technologists 2008 Annual Meeting in New Orleans,
La.
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 diet contained no peanut product and served as the control
group.
After the hamsters had been on the test diets for six months, the researchers
tested their blood lipid chemistry. Compared to hamsters in the no-peanut
control group, those in each of the three peanut groups were found to have
significantly lower total cholesterol and LDL "bad" cholesterol. Also positive,
HDL "good" cholesterol levels held steady.
Other blood chemistry research has been published that links reduced heart
disease risk factors in humans with consuming peanut butter and peanut oil, but
this is the first animal study to exhibit such an effect from consuming the
fat-free portion of peanuts. While it is still unknown if the effect would
translate to humans, the unit’s confirmatory and additional research studies
with peanut components are ongoing.
The study was conducted by Tim Sanders, who heads the ARS Market Quality and
Handling Research Unit, in Raleigh, N.C., and Amanda Stephens, a food science
and nutrition graduate student at North Carolina State University (NC State), in
Raleigh.
Stephens is participating in a cooperative program with ARS in which students
gain course credit through laboratory training and experience. The ARS study was
conducted in NC State facilities under an Institutional Animal Care and Use
Committee approved protocol.
ARS is a scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Comment:
Feeding hamsters something that would never be found in their natural diet, in no way tells us how this change would operate in a human. This would be like feeding us mice for 6 months and seeing if our cholesterol went down! Peanut oil is an omega 3 so this solves the mystery a bit.