1, water chestnut is water chestnut, water chestnut eaten raw can maximize the retention of nutrients, the highest nutritional value, and eaten raw will bring a light fragrance and sweet taste, can help appetizer digestion.
2, but it is not recommended to eat raw, water chestnuts are grown in the water, easy to infect parasites, eating raw water chestnuts may cause some adverse reactions. And water chestnuts are cold, eaten raw will aggravate the body's cold, resulting in cold spleen and stomach, diarrhea and other symptoms. It is not advisable to eat water chestnuts raw for people with cold spleen and stomach, women during menstruation, cold spleen and stomach, as well as those with blood deficiency and blood stagnation.
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Water chestnut (scientific name: Heleocharis dulcis? (Burm. f.) Trin.), also known as horseshoe, water chestnut, Wuyao, Bodhi chestnut, etc., belongs to the monocotyledonous Salixaceae, is a perennial persistent herb. There are slender creeping rhizomes, and tubers are borne at the tips of the creeping rhizomes, commonly known as water chestnuts. Culms numerous, tufted, erect, terete, with numerous transverse membranes, existing nodes on culm surface after drying, but inconspicuous, gray-green, smooth and glabrous. Leaves absent, only 2-3 leaf sheaths at base of culm; sheaths submembranous, greenish yellow, purplish red or brown. Spikelets terminal, terete, two scales hollow and flowerless at base of spikelet, clasping base of spikelet for a week; remaining scales all flowered; one and a half times longer than nutlet, barbed; stigmas 3. Nutlets broadly obovate, biconvex, not constricted at tip; stylopodium sharply narrowed and flattened from a broad base to triangular. Flowering and fruiting May-October.
This is produced in China and widely spread all over the world, and it is cultivated all over the country, more in tropical and subtropical areas. Water chestnut skin color purple and black, white flesh, sweet and juicy taste, crisp and delicious, can be done both as a fruit to eat raw, but also as a vegetable to eat. The bulb is rich in starch, for raw food, cooked food or extract starch, sweet taste; also for medicinal use, appetizing and detoxification, eliminating lodging, stomach and intestines.
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