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Water chestnut, China's ancient earliest known tool "Er Ya" called the eider Common Gromwell, is because the eider bird likes to eat and get the name. It is sweet and delicious, can be used as a fruit and also as a vegetable, canned food, can be used for cold fruit preserves, it can be eaten raw, can also be cooked; water chestnut color and shape of the beauty of the cause of successive generations of writers and writers for the painting of their poetry is very much.

Water chestnut is not only nutritious but also has high medicinal value. According to chemical determination, water chestnut contains protein 1.5%, fat 0.1%, sugar 18%, starch 26%, crude fiber 3.5% or so. According to the Qing Dynasty medical monograph "Materia Medica" records, it is "sweet taste and cold", with "break the accumulation of attack, stop bleeding, dysentery, detoxification, hair acne, clear color and sobering up the wine" of the efficacy. The Compendium of Materia Medica" that, water chestnut can "quench thirst, warming Qi, under the Dan Shi, eliminating the wind, in addition to the chest of real heat." Powdered food can "brighten the ears and eyes, eliminate jaundice, open the stomach and food, can detoxify. It can cure diaphragmatic gas, eliminate food and dissolve copper. Treatment of hematochezia, elimination of parasites." It has high starch content, can make starch, make vermicelli, brewing, and its residue is also a high-quality feed for pigs.

Calories (kcal) 59 Thiamin (mg) .02 Calcium (mg) 4

Protein (g) 1.2 Riboflavin (mg) .02 Magnesium (mg) 12

Fat (g) .2 Niacin (mg) .7 Iron (mg .6

Carbohydrates (g) 13.1 Vitamin C (mg) 7 Manganese (mg) .11

Dietary fiber (g) 1.1 Vitamin E (mg) .65 Zinc (mg) .34

Vitamin A (mcg) 3 Cholesterol (mg) 0 Copper (mg) .07

Carotenoids (mcg) .8 Potassium (mg) 306 Phosphorus (mg) 44

Retinol equivalents (mg) 83.6 Sodium (mg) 15.7 Selenium ( micrograms) .7