Water chestnut with low sugar content. Water chestnut, also known as water chestnut, has low sugar content and is rich in vitamin C and protein. After eating, you can supplement the vitamins and protein needed by your body. Proper consumption is good for your health. Water chestnut is a kind of food with low glycemic index, which will hardly affect the control of blood sugar for diabetic patients.

Water chestnut likes warm and humid, not cold-resistant. It usually grows in shallow water. Water chestnut needs high temperature and long sunshine in the early growth stage, such as the optimum temperature for germination is 15-20℃ and the optimum temperature for tillering is 25-30℃, and the shortened light hours in the later growth stage should be less than 65438+.

morphological character

Creeping rhizomes are slender. Most of the stalks are tufted, straight and slender, cylindrical, 40- 100 cm high, 2-3 mm in diameter, gray-green, smooth, hairless and with diaphragm. After drying, the surface of the stalk has knots and many longitudinal stripes. No leaves, only 2-3 leaf sheaths at the base of the stem; The sheath is light brown, smooth, hairless, membranous, and the sharp point at the oblique top of the sheath mouth is 7- 15 cm long.