Watershoe cake is a traditional dessert snack in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, and Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty. It is made with sugar water mixed with water chestnut powder or sweet potato powder. Steamed. Water chestnut, also known as horseshoe in Cantonese and Fujian, hence the name. It is dark brown in color, translucent, can be folded without cracking, and can be popped without breaking. It is soft, smooth, refreshing, and tough at the same time, and has a very sweet taste.

Main functions

Water chestnuts are also called water chestnuts. They are rich in vitamins B and C, plant protein, and phosphorus. They have the effect of clearing away heat, removing dampness, and detoxifying. It is the bulb of the sedge root plant Water Chestnut. Mainly grown in southern China. Horse hooves contain a large amount of starch, plus oligosaccharides and simple sugars, accounting for more than 86% of the dry weight. Starch 18.8%, protein 2.3%, fat 0.2%, ash 1.6%. A variety of vitamins A, B1, B2, C, and minerals calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. In addition, it also contains water chestnut, a heat-labile antibacterial ingredient, which has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.

Horses hoofs have many health care effects:

- Diuretic and laxative: Water chestnuts contain crude protein and starch, which can promote large intestine peristalsis

- Diuretic and laxative: Water chestnuts Water can diuresis and relieve diuresis.

- Clearing the lungs and reducing phlegm: Water chestnuts are sweet and cold, and can clear away the heat in the lungs; they are also rich in mucus, which has the effect of promoting body fluids, moistening the lungs and reducing phlegm, so it can clear away the heat in the lungs.