Horseshoes belong to the fruit, horseshoes can be used as a fruit to eat raw, but also can be used as a vegetable to eat.

Often eat horseshoes, are washed and cooked to eat, although not as refreshing as when eaten raw, but still crunchy, the elderly and children are better to chew.

It is important to note that because horseshoes are aquatic vegetables, some of which grow in the mud, they are easily contaminated and harbor bacteria, so it is not recommended to eat them raw, and it is best to clean them and cook them.

If you want to eat it raw, be sure to wash it and peel it, and it is recommended that you soak it in hot water for a short period of time, so it will be safer.

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p>Water chestnut, also known as horseshoe, skin color purple and black, white flesh, sweet and juicy taste, crisp and delicious, since ancient times there is a subterranean Snow Pear's reputation, the north people regarded as the south of Jiangnan ginseng. Water chestnut taste sweet and crisp, nutritious, containing protein, fat, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, iron, calcium, phosphorus and carbohydrates. Can be used for cooking, can make starch, but also as traditional Chinese medicine.

Water chestnut contains a variety of active ingredients, mainly flavonoids, polyphenols, polysaccharides, sterols, water chestnut Ying and so on. Therefore, water chestnut has many functions, such as antioxidant, scavenging free radicals, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, anticancer, analgesic, anti-inflammatory as well as improving human immunity.

Each 100 grams of fresh water chestnut meat contains 84 grams of water, so it is often used as a drink, and pear and honey is a good drink to moisten the dryness and clear the lungs;

Each 100 grams of fresh water chestnuts, the carbohydrate content of 14.2 grams, 1.2 grams of protein, 0.2 grams of fat, so the high-carbohydrate, low-fat food has become the "three highs". , phosphorus 44 mg, potassium 306 mg, carotene 20 micrograms, vitamin B10.02 mg, vitamin B20.02 mg, vitamin C 7 mg, niacin 0.7 mg, etc.;

Contains flavonoids, polyphenols, polysaccharides, stanols, and other plant compounds, which make water chestnuts have the role of antioxidant and so on;

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