What is water chestnut?
Eleocharis tuberosa is a kind of herbaceous plant, which belongs to 1 Gramineae of Monocotyledon, and its fruit grows underground. There are also names with local characteristics, such as horseshoe, water chestnut, black taro and water chestnut. We all know that the skin of water chestnut is purple-black, its flesh is white, not only sweet but also juicy, and it is crisp and delicious. Therefore, we can eat water chestnut raw as a fruit, and also make water chestnut a vegetable. There is also a place called sagittarius. Eleocharis tuberosa was first discovered in India and produced in large quantities. Now it is mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and other places with shallow water in China, and planted in paddy fields.
Nutritional value of water chestnut
Eleocharis tuberosa has certain antibacterial effect and can promote human metabolism. Water chestnut also contains a lot of nutrients. For example, the phosphorus content in water chestnut is the highest among all stem vegetables, which can promote human development. Water chestnut has three substances, sugar, fat and protein, which can adjust the acid-base balance. Water chestnut also has an antibacterial component, water chestnut. Water chestnut has certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nutrient content of water chestnut: it contains water, carbohydrate, protein, carotene, vitamin B 1, vitamin b2, vitamin C3, niacin, fat, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus and iron. At the same time, when water chestnut is used as a vegetable, it has higher nutritional value when mixed with other foods.
Efficacy and function of water chestnut
1. Water chestnut has the effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, because the pulp of water chestnut is delicate, sweet and juicy, which can achieve the effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
2. Eleocharis tuberosa has the function of promoting bowel movement and relaxing bowels, because Eleocharis tuberosa contains a substance called crude protein, which is beneficial to the peristalsis of large intestine, and has a curative effect on fullness of food and dry stool, and is a good food therapy for patients with urinary tract infection.
3. Eleocharis tuberosa has the functions of clearing away lung heat and resolving phlegm, clearing away lung heat, promoting fluid production, moistening lung and resolving phlegm, because Eleocharis tuberosa is sweet and cold, and has mucinous quality, these characteristics are convenient for coughing, coughing up yellow sticky phlegm and other symptoms.
4. Water chestnut juice, together with fresh lotus root juice, pear juice, fresh reed root juice and Ophiopogon japonicus juice, is called "five juice drinks", which can be used to promote fluid production and eliminate heat, so water chestnut can lower blood pressure.
5. Water chestnut can promote bone development, because water chestnut contains high phosphorus. At the same time, water chestnut has the need to promote human growth and maintain physiological functions.
6. Water chestnut can help to clear the boredom in the chest and relieve fever, body fluid injury and thirst.
How to eat water chestnut?
1. Stir-fried mushrooms with water chestnuts, because they are both vegetables with high nutritional content, which are not only delicious but also rich in nutrients, which is beneficial to health, and also has the function of regulating the spleen.
2. Water chestnuts and auricularia can be cooked together.
3. Water chestnuts and borneol can be eaten together, which is more delicious after being chilled.
4. Water chestnut can also be mixed with sheep liver, rabbit meat, mushrooms, black fungus, borneol, soybean milk and white wine.
Water chestnut should not be eaten with anything.
1, water chestnut and spironolactone
Because spironolactone contains a lot of potassium salt, it is easy to accumulate in the body after eating. And water chestnut also contains a lot of potassium, so eating water chestnut after taking spironolactone is prone to hyperkalemia and arrhythmia. In severe cases, it even causes heart diseases, such as cardiac arrest.
2, water chestnut can't be eaten with cold food.
Because water chestnut is cold food, eating it with cold food is easy to aggravate the cold in the body. It is very unfavorable for women with palace cold. At the same time, for children with weak digestive ability and blood stasis, it is easy to cause symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain and indigestion after eating. Therefore, people with the above situation should not only eat less water chestnuts, but even suggest not eating water chestnuts.
3. Don't take water chestnut with other antihypertensive ingredients.
Water chestnut contains an ingredient called water chestnut, which has the effect of lowering blood pressure and is very harmful to patients with low blood pressure and hypoglycemia. It is recommended not to eat it.