Chestnuts can be food, and dates, persimmons and known as "hardcore crops", "woody food", is a cheap, nutritious tonic and tonic medicine.
Nutritional effects
1. Chestnuts contain carbohydrates up to 40% (2.4 times as much as potatoes), protein 10.7%, fat 2.7%. Fresh chestnuts are very rich in vitamin B1, B2, vitamin C content than tomatoes. Chestnuts also contain dietary fiber, tannins, carotene and phosphorus, calcium, potassium, iron and other minerals.
2. Chestnut rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, minerals, can prevent and control hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases, is the anti-aging, prolonging the life of the nourishing good.
3. Chestnuts contain riboflavin (vitamin B2), the day long difficult to heal children's mouth sores and adult mouth ulcers have a very good effect.
4. According to Chinese medicine, chestnuts can replenish the spleen and stomach, tonifying the kidneys and strong muscles, and stop bleeding. Chestnuts on the human body's nourishing function, comparable to ginseng, astragalus, angelica, etc., to assist in the treatment of kidney deficiency is beneficial, especially for the elderly kidney deficiency, loose stools better, so it is called "kidney fruit".