Cooking chestnuts with electric cookers is also a common practice. Many people are reluctant to eat raw chestnuts, because it is difficult for people to easily accept raw chestnuts in terms of taste and nutritional value. Therefore, they should wait until they are cooked before eating them. Instead, they can give full play to the most typical nutritional components of chestnuts, including a series of functions and functions such as tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

The chemical composition contains protein 5.7%, fat 2%, carbohydrate 62%, ash 1.3%, starch 25%, vitamin B, lipase, etc.

the sexual taste is sweet and warm; Enter kidney, spleen and stomach meridians.

the function is mainly to nourish the stomach, strengthen the spleen, tonify the kidney, strengthen tendons, promote blood circulation and stop bleeding. It can be used for nausea, diarrhea, weakness of waist and feet, vomiting, dysentery, bloody stool, golden sore, swelling and pain, scrofula, family disease, jaundice, and dysentery.

usage and dosage: raw food, boiled food or fried ground powder; Tamping for external use.

compatibility and application of yuejia disease: 1g chestnut flower, decocted in water. (Ping Huang, Guizhou)

Jiuziyang: appropriate amount of chestnut flowers, decocted in water. (Songtao, Bijie, Guizhou)

Red and white dysentery: 1g chestnut, 1g purslane and 1g jujube red, decocted in water. (Bijie, Guizhou Province)

Chestnuts in North and South China are edible

1) Chestnut seeds are fried, which have smaller fruit shape, higher sugar content than those in protein, less starch and are waxy. The excellent varieties are represented by chestnuts produced in Yanshan Mountains, Hebei Province.

2) Vegetable chestnut species, with large fruit shape, low sugar content, high moisture content and high starch content, are japonica, and are suitable for dishes, cakes, canned goods, etc. The representative varieties are chestnuts from Jiangsu, Hubei and other places. [7]

Medicinal value

Chestnut has the effects of strengthening spleen and stomach, benefiting qi, tonifying kidney, strengthening waist, strengthening tendons, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and strengthening heart, and is suitable for waist and knees weakness caused by kidney deficiency, adverse waist and legs, increased urination, chronic diarrhea caused by deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach, fracture caused by trauma, blood stasis, swelling and pain of bones and muscles, etc.

Chestnut also has high medicinal value, and is mainly used for nausea, hematemesis and hematochezia, which is suitable for all ages. Chestnut contains soft dietary fiber, and its glycemic index is lower than that of rice. As long as sugar is not added in the processing and cooking, diabetics can also take appropriate supplements.

Chestnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, which can prevent and treat diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. There are also extremely high sugar, fat, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and other minerals, as well as vitamins C, B1, B2, etc., which are useful for strengthening the body.