Can water chestnut be eaten raw?
Water chestnut should not be eaten raw, because it grows in the soil, and there may be more bacteria and parasites attached to the epidermis and inside, so it must be washed and cooked before eating.
Cooked food is mostly used as ingredients, and can also be used for frying, burning or stuffing. Such as "Fried shrimps with water chestnut" and "Fried diced chicken with water chestnut".
How to eat water chestnut?
1, eaten raw, although water chestnut grows in the soil, there may be some unknown molds, but after the sun's irradiation, almost all those molds are killed, and there are many sweet juices.
2, cooked food, spring is the high season of influenza. Cooking with washed water chestnut and Radix Isatidis granules is a good way to prevent influenza, and it tastes a little waxy and sweet. The sweetness is completely different from the sweetness of raw food, which is a mixture of the sweetness and fragrance of Radix Isatidis.
3. Making meatballs, adding chopped water chestnut powder into the materials to make meatballs. The skin of meatballs is crisp and delicious. The best pork belly is chopped without adding water or stirring, thrown back and forth in containers like adobe in rural areas, or beaten with boards. When it is thick, add egg white and chopped water chestnut (that is, water chestnut), add seasoning and beat well, and finally make it into a blank, fry it in boiling oil until the surface is unified, and stew it in a pot for about an hour. Less water in soy sauce is stew, and more water without soy sauce is stew. Braised mushrooms or bamboo shoots and Chinese cabbage are also acceptable for cooking. Stewed dishes don't need the bottom of the pot. Put the cabbage heart after stewing in the casserole, which looks refreshing and tastes good.
4. Hawthorn Horseshoe Juice
Raw materials: hawthorn 10, proper amount of sugar, fresh horseshoe 10.
Method:
1. Wash the hawthorn, peel and wash the fresh water chestnut, squeeze it into juice and pour it into a cup.
2. Add sugar to the juice of hawthorn and horseshoe, and stir well to serve.
Note: Hawthorn, also known as red fruit, has the function of promoting gastrointestinal digestion and slimming.
The benefits of women eating water chestnut
1, treating hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids patients often eat water chestnut, which is of great benefit.
Step 2 treat diabetes
Eleocharis tuberosa is tender and tender, which can promote fluid production and quench thirst, and has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetic patients.
3. Treatment of respiratory diseases
In the season of respiratory infectious diseases, eating fresh water chestnut is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of meningitis, measles, whooping cough and acute pharyngitis.
4, antihypertensive effect
Water chestnut juice, fresh lotus root juice, pear juice, fresh reed root juice and Ophiopogon japonicus juice are collectively called "five-juice beverage", which is used for promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving summer heat and lowering blood pressure.
5, Qingfei Huatan
Water chestnut is sweet in taste, cold in nature, capable of clearing away lung heat and rich in mucus. It has the function of moistening lung and resolving phlegm, so it can clear phlegm heat and treat cough caused by lung heat, and phlegm is yellow and sticky.
6, laxative diuretic effect.
Water chestnut contains crude protein and starch, which can promote the peristalsis of large intestine. Clinically, it is often used to treat food retention and dry stool caused by heat toxin. Lingjiao decoction can induce diuresis and relieve stranguria, which is a good diet therapy for patients with urethral infection.
7. Clearing away heat and toxic materials
Water chestnut belongs to cold food, which has a good effect of clearing away heat and purging fire. It can not only clear away heat and promote fluid production, but also supplement nutrition, which is most suitable for patients with fever. It has the effects of cooling blood and detoxicating, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, promoting digestion and reducing swelling.
8. Promote growth and development
It can promote the growth and development of human body and maintain the needs of physiological function, and is of great benefit to the development of teeth and bones. At the same time, it can promote the metabolism of sugar, fat and protein in the body and adjust the acid-base balance, so water chestnut is suitable for children.
9. Functional uterine bleeding
Functional uterine bleeding is often manifested as menstrual disorder and abnormal uterine bleeding. Modern medicine generally divides dysfunctional uterine bleeding into ovulatory dysfunctional uterine bleeding and anovulatory dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
Ovulatory dysfunctional uterine bleeding is common in women of childbearing age, and anovulatory dysfunctional uterine bleeding is more common in adolescent or menopausal women. Practice has proved that using water chestnut and shepherd's purse to treat patients with uterine bleeding has a good effect on female functional uterine bleeding.
I warmly remind: for women, although eating water chestnut has many benefits, you can't ignore the dietary taboos of water chestnut, because water chestnut is cold, so if you are in menstruation, spleen and stomach deficiency, blood deficiency and blood stasis, try not to eat or eat less. In addition, children with enuresis and diabetes should not be eaten.