1. Can you still eat insects?
Many chestnuts may have insects, but they can be eaten if they are not rotten, but most of them will rot, and if you look at the insects inside, your appetite will be lost. You can't eat them for you. Some people may say that they don't know they have eaten them, but it's okay if they eat them. As long as the taste has not changed, it will generally have no effect on your health.
2. Benefits of eating chestnut
Eating chestnut has the effects of nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. It is good for spleen and stomach weakness, nausea, physical weakness, backache and leg weakness, bloody stool, etc.
3. Disadvantages of eating chestnut
Eating too much raw is difficult to digest; Too much cooked food is easy to stagnate; Diabetic patients should eat less or not, because the sugar content of chestnut is very high, which will cause blood sugar to rise and aggravate the condition.
4. Warm reminder
Chestnuts are not easy to preserve, and they are afraid of heat, dryness and freezing. Therefore, if there are many chestnuts, you should pay attention to the preservation method. You can pack them in cloth bags and put them in a cool and ventilated place. You can dry the chestnut first, so as to kill the eggs in the chestnut. If it is a small amount of chestnut, you can put it in the refrigerator, which can prevent the chestnut from getting insects.
5. Method of peeling chestnuts
1. Method of soaking chestnuts in granulated sugar water
Soak chestnuts in granulated sugar water for 12 hours, and take out chestnuts, so that the outer shell and the astringent skin inside can be easily peeled off.
2. Sun exposure method
After the mature raw chestnut is exposed to the sun, the water on the surface of the chestnut shell is dried, and the shell will automatically crack, so the shell can be easily peeled off.
3, microwave oven baking method
If you have a microwave oven at home, you can cut a small hole in the chestnut shell with scissors and bake it in the microwave oven for one minute. After taking it out, the shell will be separated from the nuts.
4. Refrigerator freezing method
Put the raw chestnut in the freezer for two hours, and then take it out. Due to heat expansion and cold contraction, the raw chestnut fruit shrinks, and it will split with the shell, so that the shell will crack with a gentle pinch.
5. Expansion with heat and contraction with cold
Boil raw chestnut in boiling water for four or five minutes, then take it out immediately and soak it in cold water for five minutes, so that the shells and nuts of raw chestnut can be easily peeled off.
6. Light salt water soaking method
Boil the light salt water, soak it in raw chestnut for five minutes, and take it out. By this method, the shell and inner skin of chestnut will be easily peeled off.
7. Boiling water soaking method
After the shell of chestnut is cut open, put the chestnut in boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes, then stir it with chopsticks, and the chestnut skin will be easily peeled off. Be careful not to soak for too long, otherwise it will affect the nutritional components of chestnut.
8, pressure cooker shelling method
clean the chestnut, cut a small hole on the surface with a knife, put it directly into the pressure cooker without adding water, fire it, turn off the fire after three minutes of aeration, and start peeling the shell and the skin inside after taking it out.