Known as the "King of Autumn Fruits", how high is the nutritional value of chestnut?

Chestnut cultivation began in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. The fruit is called chestnut and can be eaten raw, stir-fried with sugar, baked, canned, ground into powder to make cakes, and cooked with a spoon. Containing sugar, protein, fat and multiple vitamins, it has high nutritional and economic value. Chestnuts mostly grow on the gentle slopes of hills and rivers. Hebei, Funing, Shandong, Hubei, Luoshan in Xinyang, and Zhen'an in southern Shaanxi are famous chestnut producing areas.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the properties and flavors of chestnut are sweet, salty, and warm in nature, and it returns to the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians. It can strengthen the spleen and stomach, stop bleeding and reduce swelling, and strengthen muscles and activate collaterals. Chestnut can be used to treat symptoms of weak spleen and stomach, or spleen and kidney yang deficiency, loose stools and diarrhea, kidney qi deficiency, weakness of the waist and feet, persistent diarrhea, or blood in the stool. External application can treat swelling and pain in muscles and bones.

Long-term consumption of chestnuts can achieve the health effects of nourishing the stomach, spleen, kidneys and beauty. Chestnuts are rich in nutrients, including carbohydrates, proteins, fats and other vitamins and inorganic salts. They have good preventive and therapeutic effects on hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, etc. However, everyone needs to be reminded that when eating chestnuts, raw food is not easy to digest. Eating more cooked chestnuts will also cause qi stagnation and fullness. Especially for patients with constipation and functional dyspepsia, it is not recommended to eat too much chestnuts.

How to eat chestnuts:

1. Eat chestnuts raw. Eating it raw is suitable for those who vomit blood or have bloody stools, and to nourish the kidneys.

2. Eat chestnuts simmered or stir-fried. Suitable for those with spleen and stomach deficiency.

3. Eating chestnuts and pig kidneys together can treat common weakness in the waist and legs.

Taboos for eating chestnuts: Excessive consumption of chestnuts can easily damage the spleen and stomach. Eat less if you have stagnant food intake or abdominal distension.

What are the benefits of eating chestnuts in winter? The various trace elements contained in chestnuts can ease emotions and suppress pain. It has a certain relieving effect on the frequent emotional instability of expectant mothers, and can also alleviate daily emotional instability. Chestnuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. It is a good nourishing product for anti-aging and prolonging life.