Chestnut is not only rich in protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins and trace elements, but also contains more vitamin C than tomatoes. Regular consumption of chestnut can enhance memory immunity and improve disease resistance. Moreover, it is rich in vitamin C, which can prevent and treat osteoporosis, soreness of waist and legs, pain and fatigue of bones and muscles, and delay human aging. It is an ideal health fruit for the elderly.
Chestnut is a kind of dried fruit with high carbohydrate content, which can provide more heat energy for human body, help fat metabolism, and have the functions of invigorating qi, strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach and intestines. Containing riboflavin, eating chestnut often is beneficial to children's oral ulcers and long-term intractable adult oral ulcers; Raw chestnuts or cooked chestnuts can be used to treat soreness of waist and legs, frequent micturition, nausea, bloody stool, chronic lymphadenitis, chronic diarrhea caused by deficiency of cervical lymph nodes and spleen and stomach, and long-term infertility caused by kidney deficiency.
Although chestnuts have high nutritional and health value, they also need to be eaten properly. It is better to eat chestnuts as snacks between meals or during meals, rather than eating them in large quantities after meals. This is because chestnuts contain more starch, and it is easy to consume too many calories after meals, which is not conducive to maintaining weight. People with diabetes should eat less or not, because chestnut has a high sugar content.