Chestnut is also rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, which can prevent and treat diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and osteoporosis, and is a nourishing good product for anti-aging and prolonging life.

Eating chestnut can prevent hypertension.

The content of potassium in chestnut is very prominent. The content of potassium in fresh chestnut is 442 mg per 100 g, which is three times higher than that of apples which are said to be rich in potassium.

Therefore, it is very suitable for patients with hypertension. In addition, the unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins contained in chestnuts are also very rich, which can prevent and treat diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis, etc. It is a nourishing good product for anti-aging and prolonging life.

When eating, it should be noted that chestnut is high in calories, so it is easy to cause constipation if eaten too much. It is enough to eat 10 at most every day. It is a good choice to stew soup, cook porridge and cook rice with chestnut.

Also known as chestnut, big chestnut, chestnut fruit, hairy chestnut, chess piece and chestnut wedge. Chestnuts are distributed in Liaoning, Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places in China. They are big, spherical, with external thorns, and 2-3 nuts are born in the shell bucket. The famous variety is Liangxiang chestnut, which is produced in Fangshan Liangxiang, a suburb of Beijing. The fruit is small, about 5 grams, sweet and mature in mid-October. Qianxi Mingli, also known as "red skin" and "red hair", is produced in Qianxi, Xinglong and Guoda, Hebei Province, with 7-9.5g, reddish brown skin, bright and sweet taste, and matured in mid-September. Laiyang Hongguang chestnut, produced in Zhuangtou, Laiyang, Shandong Province, is large in fruit, dark brown in skin, bright, good in quality, sweet in taste and ripe in early September; In addition, Castanea henryi, also known as Pearl Chestnut, is distributed in the Yangtze River valley and all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and an oval nut is contained in the shell head, which tastes the same as chestnut. Chestnut not only contains a lot of starch, but also contains protein, vitamins and other signature nutrients, and is known as the "king of dried fruits". Chestnut can replace grain, and it is called "hardcore crop" and "woody grain" together with jujube and persimmon. It is a kind of cheap and nutritious tonic and tonic medicine. Nutritional analysis 1. Chestnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, which can prevent and treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases, and is a nourishing product for anti-aging and prolonging life; 2. Chestnuts contain riboflavin, and eating chestnuts often is beneficial to children's mouth sores and adult oral ulcers that are difficult to heal for a long time; 3. Chestnut is a kind of dried fruit with high carbohydrate content, which can supply more heat energy to human body and help fat metabolism, and has the functions of invigorating qi, strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach and intestines; 4. Chestnut is rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal functions of teeth, bones and blood vessels and muscles, prevent and treat osteoporosis, soreness of waist and legs, pain and fatigue of bones and muscles, and delay human aging. It is an ideal health care fruit for the elderly. The relevant population can be eaten by the general population 1. It is suitable for the elderly with kidney deficiency, especially for the middle-aged and elderly people with backache, leg weakness and frequent urination; Suitable for elderly patients with bronchitis, cough and asthma, and diarrhea due to internal cold; 2. People with diabetes should not eat; Infants, people with spleen and stomach weakness, indigestion and people with rheumatism should not eat more. Production instruction 1. Chestnuts can be eaten raw, cooked, fried, or stewed with meat; 2. Skillful peeling of raw chestnut: cut the chestnut into two pieces with a knife, remove the shell and put it in a basin. After soaking in boiling water for a while and stirring with chopsticks, the chestnut skin will be peeled off, but it should be noted that the soaking time should not be too long to avoid nutrient loss. Dietotherapy is sweet and warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians; Nourishing stomach and spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding; Indications: weakness of spleen and stomach, nausea, diarrhea, weakness of waist and leg, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, bedsore, swelling and pain due to fracture, and swollen scrofula. Used for frequent urination and weakness of waist and legs caused by kidney deficiency: 30 grams of chestnuts are cooked in the fire, once every morning and evening/kloc-0 times. Chestnut's nourishing function on human body is comparable to that of ginseng, astragalus and angelica, and it has a good curative effect on kidney deficiency, so it is also called "the fruit of kidney", especially for the elderly with kidney deficiency and diarrhea. Regular consumption can strengthen the body and recover from illness.