The ten ways to eat water chestnuts are as follows:

1. Rock sugar, snow pear, white fungus and water chestnut soup

2. Sweet potato, water chestnut and pineapple soup

3 , Shepherd's purse and water chestnut soup

4. Stir-fried carrots with water chestnuts

5. Stir-fried water chestnuts with colored peppers and fungus

6. Orange water chestnuts

7 , Water chestnut cake

8. Pumpkin, water chestnut and millet porridge

9. Mung bean water chestnut dew Value:

Water chestnuts, also known as horseshoes, are horse hooves and are native to India. It is a perennial herb that grows in paddy fields. We eat the oblate underground stems. The taste of water chestnuts is sweet and crisp, and it is rich in nutrients. It contains protein, fat, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, iron, calcium and carbohydrates. It can be used for cooking and making starch. The Cantonese snack water chestnut cake is made from water chestnut starch.

Its fibers are spherical and easy to absorb debris. If you want to eat it raw, you must completely remove the bud eyes and outer skin, otherwise it will easily lead to the eggs of ginger worm entering the intestinal tract and parasitizing. Horse's hooves are suitable for eating raw because cooking can easily cause the loss of nutrients.

Most of the water chestnuts grown in the vast southern paddy fields are made into fruits and can be eaten raw. However, it is better to wash the soil and dry it with moisture. It can be used as fruit or vegetable, canned, or candied. It can be eaten raw or cooked.