It is water chestnut.

The water chestnut (scientific name: Eleocharis dulcis? (Burm. f.) Trin.), also known as the horseshoe, water chestnut, Wuyao, Bodhi chestnut and so on. Water chestnut skin color purple and black, white flesh, sweet and juicy taste, crisp and delicious, both as a fruit to eat raw.

Water chestnuts like to be born in ponds and swamps or cultivated in paddy fields, like temperature and love wet and fear of freezing, suitable for growing in the loamy soil with soft tillage and solid subsoil.

Nutritionally speaking, water chestnut contains protein, fat, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, iron, calcium. It can be used for cooking and can be made into starch. Water chestnut has a high phosphorus content, which can promote human growth and development and maintain physiological functions required for the development of teeth and bones, suitable for children to eat.

Expanded Information:

Health Benefits of Water Chestnuts:

1. Promote children's Teeth and bones development

Each 100 grams of water chestnut has 68mg of phosphorus, which is relatively high in the content of root vegetables, phosphorus to maintain our physiological functions, can promote human growth and development, children's teeth and bones development is very beneficial, but also can regulate the acid-base balance, and promote the metabolism of protein, fat and sugar.

2, clear lungs and phlegm

Water chestnut is cold, rich in mucus, with the effect of clearing lung heat, can produce fluids and moisturize the lungs, so it can clear phlegm heat.

3, thirst quenching

People who have eaten water chestnuts, know that water chestnuts are juicy and tender, water chestnuts are cold, coupled with sweet juice drink, it is a good medicine for thirst quenching, ancient thirst quenching famous five juice drink contains water chestnuts.

4, antibacterial

Water chestnut has a kind of heat-resistant substance called "water chestnut Ying", which can inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and other germs, and resist viruses.

5, laxative and diuretic

Water chestnut also contains starch and crude protein, which can promote the peristalsis of our large intestine, while the crude fat in water chestnut has the effect of laxative.

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