Fresh water chestnuts taste sweet and cool, can clear the summer heat, in addition to annoyance and thirst, cooked and eat can benefit the qi, spleen and stomach, fresh water chestnuts can increase the sense of satiety, weight loss and bodybuilding effect, but also anti-cancer, water chestnuts eat rich, can be cooked as a snack to eat, but also can be stripped of the flesh to stay in the stew, stewed pork ribs, congee, stir-fry, etc., the taste of powdery and sweet.

Rhombus is an aquatic food, shaped like a treasure, horn, also known as rhombus, water chestnut , is one of China's famous specialty. Rhombus cultivation has been more than three thousand years of cultivation history, it is very rich in nutritional value, the human body can play a variety of health effects.

Fresh rhododendron efficacy

1, rich in nutrients

Fresh rhododendron is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose and other elements, the nutritional value of chestnuts comparable to the taste of sweetness and coolness, can be cooled to clear summer heat, in addition to the annoyance of thirst, boiled and eaten after the benefit of the qi, the healthy spleen and stomach.

2, tonic

Fresh lozenges are a high food value tonic, in addition to the disease, and can be light, have a weight loss role . And fresh lozenges can increase satiety, not easy to accumulate fat, is very suitable for simple obesity in the weight loss time to eat.

3, anti-cancer

Fresh rhododendron in addition to containing general nutrients, but also contains rhododendron tetraene, β-sitosterol, ergosterol, gluten steroids, and other substances, which have a peculiar effect on the fight against cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, uterine cancer patients beneficial.

Rhombus edible method

Rhombus eating method is rich, can be boiled and eaten as a snack, can also be peeled the flesh of the fruit to stay stewed meat , stewed pork ribs, cooking porridge, stir-fried vegetables and so on.

Taste: the taste of pink glutinous sweet, if you want to eat as a fruit, choose the light color of the rhombus, this is more tender, crispy and sweet; if you want to cook food on the choice of dark color of the old rhombus, cooked especially fragrant, the more you eat the more addictive.

Cooked rhombus practice : use a brush to wash the rhombus, soak in salt water for half an hour, then wash with water. Fish it out and drain the water, pour it into a pot, add the right amount of water, boil it over a large fire and then turn to medium-low fire and cook it for about 40 minutes so that it can be eaten.

Fresh lozenges eating taboos

It should be noted that lozenges are a kind of cool food, and grow in the water, the shell is susceptible to infestation by ginger bugs, so it is best to cook and eat. In addition, because of the sweetness and coldness of the rhombus, more food is easy to cause indigestion, have the disadvantages of bloating, stomach cold spleen weak should not eat .