But chestnuts are hard to digest when eaten raw, and cooked food is easy to lag behind. Eating too much at a time will hurt the spleen and stomach, and eat at most 10 chestnuts a day.
Others like to stew things with chestnuts, mostly meat. Because stewing will increase the sugar and fat content in chestnut, it is easier to get angry if you eat too much. Moreover, eating chestnut is easy to cause flatulence and difficult to digest.