Eating water chestnut in Mid-Autumn Festival is said to make children grow smart. Most people cook water chestnut with clear water or salt water, and then peel it as a snack; You can also cook shelled water chestnut and rice together to make salty rice congee. After eating sweet and greasy moon cakes and drinking a bowl of water chestnut porridge, it will help to clear the greasy stomach. Trapa is an aquatic plant, belonging to Trapa or Lysimachiaceae, and is an edible plant in China. Eleocharis tuberosa is native to Europe and Asia, and is generally planted in wet mud land with mild climate, such as ponds and swamps. The climate should not be too cold, preferably 25 degrees Celsius to 36 degrees Celsius. The water depth should be 60 cm. It is divided into two varieties: obtuse angle short thorn and acute angle long thorn. Or it can be divided into two types: deep water diamond (darker color) and shallow water diamond (lighter color). In southern China, water chestnut seedlings are often planted in paddy fields after the first harvest, and loaches are raised together in paddy fields. A seedling can bear about 80 flowers, and each flower often bears 8 ~ 12 fruits, which is edible water chestnut. The output is quite large. The production period of Eleocharis tuberosa is 9- 165438+ 10, and there is also output from May to August, but the quantity is small. It usually takes 90 to 120 days for farmers to plant water chestnut seedlings to blossom and bear fruit. According to the weight of water chestnut after harvest, the most important thing is excellent. The leaves of Eleocharis tuberosa are dark green, the petiole is thick and hollow, floating on the water, and the leaves are small diamonds. Flowers are hidden in leaves, white in color and small in size, and will rotate with the sun, just like sunflowers. When the flowers fall and bear fruit, the water chestnut is green, and when it grows to dark red, it can be harvested. There are also special varieties of water chestnut, which are still green when mature, such as South Lake Water chestnut. Image reference:. yimg/iugc/rte/* * * iley _ 1

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Trapa nat is an aquatic plant, belonging to the family Trapanateae, and is a kind of food in China. Eleocharis tuberosa is native to Europe and Asia, and is generally planted in wet mud land with mild climate, such as ponds and swamps. The climate should not be too cold, preferably 25 degrees Celsius to 36 degrees Celsius. The water depth should be 60 cm. It is divided into two varieties: obtuse angle short thorn and acute angle long thorn. Or it can be divided into two types: deep water diamond (darker color) and shallow water diamond (lighter color). In southern China, water chestnut seedlings are often planted in paddy fields after the first harvest, and loaches are raised together in paddy fields. A seedling can bear about 80 flowers, and each flower often bears 8 ~ 12 fruits, which is edible water chestnut. The output is quite large. The production period of Eleocharis tuberosa is 9- 165438+ 10, and there is also output from May to August, but the quantity is small. It generally takes 90 to 120 days for farmers to plant water chestnut seedlings until water chestnut blooms and bears fruit. After harvest, the water chestnut is screened according to its weight, and the most important thing is the fine product. The leaves of Eleocharis tuberosa are dark green, the petiole is thick and hollow, floating on the water, and the leaves are small diamonds. Flowers are hidden in leaves, white in color and small in size, and will rotate with the sun, just like sunflowers. When the flowers fall and bear fruit, the water chestnut is green, and when it grows to dark red, it can be harvested. Edible History China people have a long history of eating water chestnut, which was an important food in the sacrificial ceremony of the Zhou Dynasty. Zhou Li once mentioned: "The truth of adding water is the pickled chestnuts." Water chestnut is called "Zizhi" and sometimes "Water chestnut" in Chinese medical classics, because its taste is similar to chestnut (also called "Water chestnut" in English), and its dark red color at maturity makes it also called "Hong Ling". In Chinese medicine, water chestnut is a kind of cold food, which can help to disinfect the stomach and reduce fever. Volume 79, Dietotherapy and Fruits II, A Prescription for Emergency, mentions that it is rich in flavor, sweet, pungent, flat and non-toxic. Calm down, make up the five internal organs, not hungry, and keep fit. Ling. Huang: I don't eat raw ling in July. " The Compendium of Materia Medica also mentioned: "Relieve summer heat to quench thirst. It is sweet and cold, quenching thirst and alcohol. There are two corners, triangle and four corners, old and tender. " It is also mentioned in Wuling Ji that in the past, China called the fruit of rhombohedra rhombohedra "red" and that of rhombohedra rhombohedra "ling". Generally, water chestnuts are shelled and sold, and you can buy soup. Water chestnut shells and water chestnut leaves are also considered as edible medicinal materials by Chinese medicine.

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