Chestnuts, sweet and aromatic, containing starch 51 to 60%, protein 5.7-10.7%, fat 2-7.4%, sugar, starch, crude fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C and calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals, can be absorbed by the human body and the use of nutrients up to 98%. Calculated in ten grains, calories for 204 calories, fat content is less than 1 gram, is the lowest fat content in the shelled fruit. Commonly used in food processing, cooking banquets and side dishes. Chestnut raw food, fried food are suitable, sugar fried chestnuts, mixed with roasted chicken, spray flavor, can be ground, can also be made into a variety of dishes, pastries, canned food. Chestnut easy to store fresh, can extend the market supply time. Chestnuts are mostly produced in mountain slopes, foreign countries called "health food", belongs to the stomach and kidney, prolonging the life of the top quality fruit. As a food currently the most popular method of use in China is sugar fried chestnuts, with sugar color and sand mix, will become black sand and chestnuts mixed fried, one is to make the chestnuts evenly heated, and the second is to make the chestnuts in the sugar is not easy to lose. The fried chestnuts are sweet and flavorful. Beijing snacks in the chestnut surface of the small nest, said to be handed down from the Imperial Palace, when the Empress Dowager Cixi's appreciation.

Chestnuts have the function of nourishing the stomach and spleen, tonifying the kidney and strong muscles. The Compendium of Materia Medica: "Chestnut is sweet and warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians." "Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao said:" chestnut, the fruit of the kidney, kidney disease should be eaten." "Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "Chestnut treatment of kidney deficiency, lumbar and leg weakness, can pass the kidneys and benefit gas, thick intestines and stomach also." "Someone cold, violent diarrhea such as a note, food simmering chestnut twenty or thirty pieces of ton healed." Su Dongpo's younger brother Su Zhe by had written a poem extolling the therapeutic effects of chestnuts, "old age since the addition of waist and foot disease, the Mountain Weng service chestnut old pass formula. Guests to say that the morning rose late, three swallowed Xu received white jade syrup." Eating chestnuts can benefit the blood, stomach, kidney, liver and spleen; raw food and treatment of lumbar and leg pain, the effect of relaxation. Chestnuts contain high starch can provide high calories, while potassium helps to maintain a normal heartbeat regularity, fiber can strengthen the intestinal tract, to maintain the normal functioning of the excretory system.

Because chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber, diabetics can also enjoy them in moderation. However, chestnuts are difficult to digest in raw form, and cooked food is easy to stagnate, so it is not advisable to eat more than one at a time. It is best to eat chestnuts as a snack between meals, or do in the meal, rather than eating a lot of meals, so as not to consume too many calories, is not conducive to maintaining weight. Fresh chestnuts are prone to mold and deterioration, eating moldy chestnuts will cause poisoning, so the deterioration of chestnuts can not be eaten.

Chinese medicine believes that the chestnut is sweet and warm, non-toxic, has the spleen and liver, body and bone medical role. Often eaten raw can cure waist and leg weakness, shell and bark have astringent effect; fresh leaves can be used externally to cure skin inflammation; flowers can treat scrofula and diarrhea, root hernia. Folk prescription with chestnut, daily morning and evening each raw food one to two, can cure old age kidney deficiency, urination weak frequency; raw chestnut mashed as mud, applied to the affected area, can cure bruises, swelling and pain, and pain, bleeding, absorption of pus and poisonous effect.

Contains a large amount of starch, protein, fat, B vitamins and other nutrients, known as the "king of dried fruit" reputation. Can prevent and control hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases.

At the same time, eat often on the day long difficult to heal children's mouth and tongue sores and adult mouth ulcers are beneficial.

Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts can replenish the spleen and stomach, tonifying the kidney and strong tendons, blood and stop bleeding. Kidney deficiency has a good therapeutic effect, so it is also known as "kidney fruit", especially the elderly kidney deficiency, loose stools more suitable for regular consumption of a strong body to heal the disease.

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Seeds of the chestnut of the arborvitae of the family Crustacea. Also known as chestnut, chestnut fruit. Distributed in China's east, central and southwestern China and Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. Autumn harvest mature fruit, remove the chestnut shell, thin coat (endocarp) spare.

[Properties] Sweet, salty flavor, warm nature. It can tonify the kidney and strengthen the waist, benefit the spleen and stomach, and stop diarrhea.

[Reference] Containing protein, fat, starch, sugar, vitamin B1, lipase and other ingredients.

[Usage] Used for kidney qi deficiency, weakness of waist and feet; weak spleen and stomach or spleen and kidney yang deficiency, loose stool and diarrhea; prolonged diarrhea or blood in stool.

[Usage] Eaten raw or cooked, "and fire simmered and fried in oil is better than boiled and steamed." ("Compendium of Materia Medica")

[Note] Raw food is not easy to digest, cooked food, more food will be stagnant gas full of center.