1, eat more chestnuts, can make your health achieve the best effect. It has many functions, such as invigorating qi and spleen, strengthening tendons and bones, and eliminating edema.

2. Strengthen muscles and bones

Chestnut is rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal functions of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles, prevent and treat osteoporosis, soreness of waist and legs, pain of bones and muscles, fatigue, etc., and delay human aging. It is an ideal health care fruit for the elderly. Eating chestnuts raw often also has the effect of treating sore waist and legs, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals.

3. Eliminate edema

Chestnut is rich in potassium, which can help balance the sodium in the body. If there is too little potassium in the body, it will cause the imbalance of sodium and potassium in the body, and the excess sodium will retain water and cause cell edema. But if the body takes in enough potassium ions, sodium ions will not retain excess water. Therefore, potassium ions can help the body to metabolize excess water and eliminate edema.

4. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases

Chestnut contains a lot of nutrients such as starch, protein, fat and B vitamins, and is known as the "king of dried fruits", which can effectively prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis, and is beneficial to human health.

Disadvantages:

1 Indigested chestnuts are rich in nutrition, but they are not easy to digest when eaten too much raw, and they are easy to stagnate when eaten too much cooked, especially for people with poor gastrointestinal function and digestive system diseases, so as not to aggravate their illness.

2. Abdominal distension

Chestnut is a high-starch food, and its dietary fiber is different from that of rice flour and vegetables, and it is a large number of indigestible carbohydrates. The stomach can't digest, but it is easy to be "digested" by intestinal bacteria, and it will ferment in the intestine to produce gas. If you eat more, it will easily lead to bloating.

3. Constipation

Normal adults retain a small amount of gas in the gastrointestinal tract every day, and excessive consumption of chestnut will increase the amount of gas produced by bacterial glycolysis in the intestinal tract, thus forming flatulence in the gastrointestinal tract, which may seriously lead to constipation.

Step 4 get fat

Chestnut is easy to gain weight because of its high starch content, high glycemic index GI (food with high GI value is not good for weight loss), and the calorie of 100 grams of chestnut reaches 2 12 calories, while that of 100 grams of rice is only1kloc-0/2 calories.

5. Affect blood sugar

Chestnut is a kind of nut with high starch. The carbohydrate content of dried chestnut reaches 77%, which is equivalent to 75% of cereals. There are also 40% fresh chestnuts, which is 2.4 times that of potatoes. The protein content of fresh chestnut is 4%-5%, which is not as much as that of peanuts and walnuts, but slightly higher than that of cooked rice. Therefore, when eating chestnuts, you should avoid eating too much, especially people with diabetes, so as not to affect the stability of blood sugar.