During pregnancy, pregnant women are under great pressure to eat, so what they can eat and what they can't eat need special attention. So pregnant women can eat water chestnut. Let's first analyze the specific nutritional value and efficacy of water chestnut.

Water chestnut is also called "peanuts in water", and its nutritional value is not worse than other nuts. It is universally acknowledged that eating water chestnut can promote diuresis, promote lactation, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Therefore, pregnant women eat water chestnut in moderation, which has a certain auxiliary effect on the discharge of postpartum milk.

In addition, water chestnut is rich in nutrients such as starch, protein, glucose, fat, carotene, B vitamins, vitamin C, and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Proper intake of these ingredients by pregnant women is not only beneficial to maternal nutritional supplement, but also beneficial to fetal growth and development. However, it should be noted that water chestnut is cold and cold, and it is easy to bloat after eating too much, so it is not advisable to eat too much raw food. Pregnant women eat water chestnut, it is best to grind it into powder and cook it with rice into porridge.

Jiao Ling Zhou

Ingredients: 20 horseshoes, 50 grams of lotus root starch, 50 grams of japonica rice and 20 grams of brown sugar.

Exercise:

1. First, clean the harvested water chestnut, cut it open, shell it, take out the water chestnut fruit, dry it in the sun or dry it in the sun, and grind it into fine powder for later use.

2. Wash the water chestnut shell, put it into a casserole, add the washed japonica rice, add some water, boil it with strong fire, then simmer it with low fire until the japonica rice is cooked, then add water chestnut powder and wet lotus root powder, stir while simmering, and finally add brown sugar to make thick porridge.