High carbohydrate, starch content in 10% ~ 20%, so the lotus root can do both vegetables, but also can do staple food, especially diabetics, there is lotus root meal, pay attention to reduce the amount of other staple food Oh ~ lotus root vitamin C content is not bad ~ per 100 grams of lotus root containing 44 mg of vitamin C, in the north, vegetables are less winter, eat lotus root can also get a lot of vitamin C it; The calcium content of lotus root is also relatively rich, 100 grams of lotus root calcium content is about 40 milligrams.

Lotus root has: clear heat and cool blood, spleen and stomach, tonic blood effect, rich in trace elements. After the fall, the weather is hot and dry at noon and cool in the morning and evening. It is easy to cause dry mouth, heartburn, dry skin, you can cook lotus root soup to drink, through the lotus root heat-cooling effect, remove the body's heat, relieve the symptoms. Lotus root peanut ribs soup:First, remove the skin of the lotus root and cut it into cubes, and cut the ribs into sections. Then put the lotus root, peanuts, pork ribs together in the pot, high fire boil after turning small fire to cook 2 hours can be. This soup with the addition of brain-healthy blood peanuts, neutralize the coolness of the lotus root, the soup is more fresh and sweet and delicious. With the spare ribs in soup, the lotus root is more pink and sweet.

Lotus root is sweet and cold in nature, belonging to the heart, spleen and stomach, boiled lotus root is warm and has a very good health effect. Fried lotus root slices, cut into slices of lotus root dipped in semolina coated with egg wash, fried and eaten. Occasionally eat, but also food, to meet the taste buds on the tongue, fried lotus root slices of fried food, although delicious and can not be eaten more, the intestines protested.

Raw food is good for quenching thirst and clearing away heat. Lotus root also has a clear flavor, scented into the heart and spleen, so the Belonging Records cloud its "long-serving people heart happy", but also can be open to wake up the spleen and help digestive. This fragrance can also melt the dirty stomach, summer and autumn due to the sense of summer and wet dirty gas caused by cholera and diarrhea, as well as the resulting loss of fluid, dry mouth and thirst, you can eat raw lotus root to solve it. Boil water over high heat, open the water into the lotus blanching 10 seconds, immediately after the fishing cast cool, and then cast the cooled and dripped dry lotus pieces to the plate, pour the prepared sauce and mix well, sprinkled with chopped parsley can be. If you like to eat spicy friends, and then add chili oil can be.