① Different fruits

Different from chestnut, the seed has only one fruit, the upper part is round and there are a group of thorns around it.

There are many varieties of chestnut in the north and south of China, and there are differences in characters and characteristics between the southern and northern varieties. Generally, the quality of southern varieties is not as good as that of northern varieties, and the meat quality is japonica, which is suitable for cooking, also known as Chinese cabbage chestnut.

② Common names and sources are different.

Wild chestnut, also known as seed chestnut, is a kind of chestnut native to Siming Mountain in eastern Zhejiang.

Chestnut producing areas in China are distributed from Liaoning and Jilin in the north to Guangdong and Guangxi in the south. The main producing areas are Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Guangxi and Guizhou.

Extended data

The main value of chestnut

Besides starch, it also contains monosaccharide and disaccharide, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid, protein, fat, inorganic salt and other nutrients.

Not only can it be eaten raw and cooked, but it can also be processed into canned chestnut chicken, chestnut soup, chocolate, milk powder substitutes, preserved chestnut and other flavor foods, as well as fillings for various cakes.

Use of chestnuts

The uses of chestnuts can be divided into:

Fried chestnuts have smaller fruit shape, higher sugar content and protein, and less starch, which is waxy. Excellent varieties are represented by chestnuts produced in Yanshan Mountains of Hebei Province.

Chestnut variety, with large fruit shape, low sugar content, high moisture content and high starch content, is japonica, suitable for cooking, cakes, cans and so on. The representative varieties are chestnuts produced in Jiangsu and Hubei.

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