What are the benefits of eating water chestnut? Strengthening spleen and stomach and benefiting stomach
Water chestnut contains cassava starch, dietary fiber and other ingredients, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and assist the digestion and absorption of ingredients. Chinese medicine believes that water chestnut has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, invigorating the spleen and nourishing blood.
Eliminating summer heat and toxin
Water chestnut is rich in vitamins and nutrients, and its characteristics are cold. It can be used for heatstroke, dry mouth and thirst, especially in summer.
Quench summer heat and thirst
Water chestnut contains water and glycogen, which is sweet and crisp, and can be eaten raw as fresh fruit. It has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, relieving summer heat and purging fire, etc. It is the top grade of health-care medicated diet for food supplement in summer and autumn.
Who is not suitable for eating water chestnut? In the process of eating water chestnut, we must pay attention not to eat it with pig's belly. Even raw pork is not strongly recommended to eat it with water chestnut, which will cause abdominal pain to a great extent. In addition, water chestnut can't be eaten with pure honey, which will lead to the problem of indigestion. If you are cold, you don't have to eat water chestnut, which will aggravate the chill in your body.
Many ingredients are originally five elements, such as water chestnut itself is a cold food. Once you eat water chestnut, don't eat other cold ingredients. From the perspective of medicine, eating too many cold ingredients will give you a very uncomfortable experience, so you must pay great attention to bypassing other cold ingredients when taking water chestnut.
If you are in the slimming period, you don't need to eat water chestnut, or you can eat less. Because water chestnut tastes more powdery and waxy, it proves that there are a lot of corn starch in water chestnut, and cassava starch needs to be eaten less in the slimming period. Because it will increase obesity, it is not strongly recommended to eat water chestnut in the slimming group.
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