Peanuts deserve a lot of reverence and also four clarifications. The first: botanically they are a legume, but we eat them as if they were nuts. The second: they do not generate cholesterol, as has probably been said and believed. In fact, from bags of mixed nuts, it has become customary to believe that peanuts were the worst. “No food of plant origin contains cholesterol, which is only present in foods of animal origin, because it is a molecule that is part of the membranes of their cells”, explains dietitian-nutritionist Anna Grífols. And the third: peanuts not only do not generate cholesterol, but they help to regulate it, as demonstrated by one of the most important clinical trials on nutrition and cardiovascular health, carried out in the State with the participation of the Rovira i Virgili University, among others.