Water chestnuts have no incompatible foods. Contraindications: Water chestnuts are cold in nature. Women during menstruation and those with spleen and stomach deficiency should use it with caution. It is also not suitable for children with enuresis.

Water chestnut, also known as water chestnut, has purple-black skin, white meat, sweet and juicy taste, crisp and delicious. It has been known as underground snow pear since ancient times, and northerners regard it as Jiangnan ginseng. Water chestnuts have a sweet and crisp taste and are rich in nutrients. They contain protein, fat, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, iron, calcium, phosphorus and carbohydrates.

It can be eaten raw, can also be used for cooking, can be made into starch, and can also be used as traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the functions of quenching thirst, digesting food, and relieving heat. Water chestnuts have the function of preventing acute infectious diseases and are a rare medicinal and edible food.

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Modern pharmacological research shows that water chestnuts contain a variety of active ingredients, mainly flavonoids, polyphenols, polysaccharides, sterols, water chestnuts, etc. Therefore, water chestnuts have multiple functions, such as antioxidant, free radical scavenging, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, anti-cancer, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and improving human immunity.

The research results of some scholars on water chestnuts show that water chestnuts are more concentrated in the parts between the skin and pulp of water chestnuts. Research results on water chestnut peel extract show that the active substances contained in water chestnuts can inhibit the nitrosation reaction, with a blocking rate of nitrosamine synthesis of 47.9 and a clearance rate of sodium nitrite of 59.1; water chestnut extract It has a strong inhibitory effect on bacteria, yeast, and mold.

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