Chestnuts, also known as chestnuts, chestnuts, chestnuts, it is China's specialty. Chestnuts can be eaten raw, can also be made into pastries, dishes, porridge, etc., and the most popular among consumers is the sweet and refreshing fried chestnuts and chestnuts and chestnut chicken or chestnut roasted meat. Chestnuts, the ancient name of wood amber. From the Xi'an half-slope Neolithic site, the physical remains of chestnuts have been found, more than 6,000 years of history of harvesting. Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, planting chestnuts has been very popular.
Chestnuts, dried fruits in the treasures
Sweet and flavorful chestnuts, since ancient times as a precious fruit, is the best of the dried fruit. Chestnut belongs to the nuts, but it is not like walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds and other nuts rich in fat, it is very high in starch. Dry chestnut carbohydrates reach 77%, with 75% of the grain cereals; fresh chestnuts are also as much as 40%, is 2.4 times the potato. Fresh chestnut protein content of 4% to 5%, although not as much as peanuts, walnuts, but slightly higher than cooked rice. At the same time it also has a good medicinal value, the main Chinese medicine for chestnuts have kidney and spleen, strong body and bones, stomach and liver effects. Therefore, chestnuts have \" kidney fruit \" reputation.
Chestnuts rich in nutrients
Chestnuts produce high energy, just because the fresh raw chestnuts contain more water and various nutrients than dry chestnuts and cooked chestnuts are relatively less. Because of the sugar contained in chestnuts is not low, therefore, in eating chestnuts tonic time, to avoid eating too much, especially diabetics, so as not to affect the stability of blood sugar.
Chestnuts not only contain a lot of starch, but also rich in protein, fat, B vitamins and other nutrients, calories are also very high, chestnuts are rich in vitamin B1, B2, vitamin B2 content is at least 4 times that of the rice, per 100 grams also contains 24 mg of vitamin C, which is incomparable to the grain.
People are afraid that it is difficult to think of, fresh chestnuts contain more vitamin C than the recognized vitamin C-rich tomatoes, is more than ten times the apple! Chestnuts contain minerals are also very comprehensive, potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, etc., although not up to the hazelnut, melon so high content, but still much higher than apples, pears and other ordinary fruits, especially the potassium content is prominent than the claim that potassium-rich apples are also four times higher.
Golden autumn chestnut kidney tonic spleen ---- chestnut, commonly known as chestnut, is China's specialty, known as the "king of dried fruits" reputation, in foreign countries it is also known as "ginseng fruit".
The medicinal value of chestnuts
Motherland medicine believes that chestnuts are sweet and warm, non-toxic, "benefit the spleen, thick stomach and intestines, tonifying the kidney and strong tendons, and stopping bleeding" role.
Raw or cooked chestnuts have the treatment of waist and leg weakness, frequent urination, regurgitation, blood in the stool, chronic lymphadenitis and cervical lymph nodes and cervical lymph node tuberculosis, as well as due to the spleen and stomach cold caused by chronic diarrhea, or due to kidney deficiency caused by a long time of infertility and other diseases. With air-dried chestnut shells burned into charcoal and then crushed into powder, plus honey and water can be used to cure bleeding hemorrhoids.
Some Chinese doctors also use chestnut shells and Xia Gu Cao, Salvia divinorum to treat acute cervical lymphadenitis and goiter. Its nourishing function on the human body, comparable to ginseng, astragalus, angelica and so on. Chestnut is sweet and warm in nature, and enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, which has the effect of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidneys, strengthening the waist, strengthening the tendons, activating the blood, stopping bleeding and reducing swelling. It is suitable for kidney deficiency caused by lumbar and knee weakness, waist and feet, urination and chronic diarrhea caused by cold spleen and stomach and traumatic fracture, bruising and swelling, skin sores, tendon pain and so on.
Chestnuts contain unsaturated fatty acids and a variety of vitamins, have the effect of fighting hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis and other diseases.
Medicinal use of chestnuts ---- from the medicinal side, chestnut fruit is a good kidney tonic, both spleen and qi, clearing away heat and detoxification, diarrhea cough and other effects .
Consumption should also be method Do not eat too much after meals
Chestnut nutritional health value is very high, but also need to eat method. It is best to take chestnuts as a snack between meals, or do eat in the meal, and do not eat a lot after meals. This is because chestnuts contain more starch, eat after meals is easy to eat too many calories, is not conducive to maintaining weight.
Buying chestnuts do not pursue the flesh of the color white or golden. The golden flesh may be chemically treated chestnuts, on the contrary, if fried or cooked after the flesh in the middle of some brown, is the chestnut containing enzyme "browning reaction" caused by as long as the flavor did not change, no harm to the human body. (Sohu Health Forum)