Acorn flour is processed from acorns. Acorns, oak tree fruit, shaped like a cocoon, so also known as chestnut cocoon. New Tang Book - Du Fu biography: "Guest Qinzhou, negative herbs picking acorns and chestnuts to feed themselves." Tang Zhang Ji has a poem: "the end of the year hoeing and plowing leaning empty room, calling children climbing the mountain to collect acorns." Acorn appearance hard shell, brown-red, inner kernel such as peanut kernels, rich in starch, the content of about sixty percent. Both edible, and can be used as raw materials for textile industry sizing.

Chinese Name

Acorn Powder

Origin

New Tang Dynasty Book - Du Fu Biography

Use

Acorn Tofu, Acorn Cold Powder

Medicinal Use

Can cure diarrhea and dysentery

Ingredients

Acorns

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Nutritional Value

The nutrient content per 100.0 grams is as follows:

Acorn Powder

Ingredient Name Contents

Moisture (g) 70

Protein (g) 8

Carbohydrates (g) 50.5

Thiamin (mcg) 0.03

Calcium (mg) 112

Phosphorus (mg) 64

Energy (kcal) 600

Fat (g) 2

Dietary fiber (g) 1.3

Vitamin C (mg) 7

Iron (mg) 5.8

Acorns The biofunctional factors that it has can resist, alleviate and prevent the toxicity of lead and other heavy metals on the human body, so the consumption of food made of acorn powder can protect the physical and mental health of the human body, improve the body's immunity, and improve the intelligence and development of children. Acorns into medicine, can cure diarrhea, enhance the body's immune function, promote growth and development, cell metabolism, bone growth, enhance physiological function, prevent anemia. To improve people's quality of life, reduce high pressure, reduce human cholesterol, beauty skin has a significant role, and practice has proved that diabetes has a significant therapeutic effect.

Practice of acorn powder

1 Collection of acorn particles fruit , acorns will fall from the tree after maturity, at this time you can collect

2 Collected acorns fruit drying in the sun, when the fruit has a crack when peeling off the shell, and then peeled the pulp dry (if not dry, directly wash the powder, the acorn powder will not precipitate).

3 The sun-dried acorn pulp soaked in water, soaked 10-15 days, and once a day to change the water (so that tannins leaching, water change to remove astringency), until completely soaked open acorn pulp, and then the acorn pulp fishing, grinding powder.

4 grinding into acorn starch, acorn starch at this time is wet, need to be repeated in the container stirring, precipitation, filtration several times (to astringent, generally three to five days filtering), to be soaked in water without astringent, the starch precipitation of the upper layer of water to remove (folk with grass ash to absorb the upper layer of water is not completely removed).

5 Take out the acorn starch, this time the acorn starch is lumpy, dry it, the process of drying needs to be broken into powder. [1]

Use of acorn flour

Zhejiang, Jiangxi area, acorn flour is mainly used to make acorn tofu .

In the area of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, acorns are used to make acorn cold noodles.