Water chestnut, also known as horseshoe fruit, is the highest phosphorus content of all stem vegetables. Phosphorus can promote the development of the human body, and can promote the body of sugar, fat, protein metabolism of the three major substances, regulating the acid-base balance, so it is a very beneficial to the body of a food, and nutritious at the same time taste good, so by everyone's favorite. In Chinese medicine, it also has a lot of efficacy in clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling the blood and promoting the production of fluids, diuretic and laxative, and resolving dampness and expectorant, and so on.

But because of the cold nature of the water chestnut, in the female menstrual period, the spleen and stomach cold, as well as the body of the people should be used with caution. Diabetic patients often may have gastrointestinal motility disorders, so when eating water chestnuts must be a moderate choice, do not overdose, overdose may be on the gastrointestinal function instead of some unfavorable factors, so to moderate intake.