Chestnuts are warm and sweet, and enter the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. Every100g of chestnut pulp contains protein10.8g, fat 6g, carbohydrate 42g, starch 2 1 g, as well as various fat-soluble vitamins and water-soluble vitamins. Besides, chestnuts also contain folic acid, cold acid, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, carotene and calcium.
Eating chestnuts raw can tonify the kidney. According to ancient medical books, "chestnut is the fruit of kidney, and kidney disease should be eaten." However, in order to show the benefits of eating chestnuts to tonify the kidney, you need to eat chestnuts raw, at most six or seven at a time. Pay attention to it, you should chew it carefully and swallow it slowly. This method is especially suitable for the elderly with healthy teeth. In addition, eating chestnuts often is good for low back pain caused by kidney is not good.
Eating chestnuts can prevent and treat oral ulcers. Patients with oral ulcers can insist on eating more sugar-fried chestnuts, in addition. It is also possible to eat chestnuts raw. During the period of suffering from oral ulcer, eat chestnut 15-20 pieces every day, and generally after eating for 3-5 days, the oral ulcer can be cured.
Chestnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, inorganic salts and lipase, which can prevent and treat hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis, lumbago and leg pain, rickets and so on. For children, eating chestnuts can promote their normal growth and development, healthy growth, and prevent low immune function, ADHD and so on. In addition, chestnuts are rich in vitamin B2 and riboflavin, which can prevent oral diseases such as mouth sores and mouth inflammation, and also prevent colds, fever and other diseases.
Although chestnuts are suitable for all ages, there are some noteworthy places to eat chestnuts. Because eating chestnuts raw is not easy to be digested, if your stomach is not good, you'd better not eat them raw to avoid stagnation of qi. In addition, fresh chestnuts are easy to deteriorate and rot, and poisoning will occur after eating these deteriorated chestnuts, so before eating chestnuts raw, we should pay attention to whether chestnuts have deteriorated. Finally, children with malnutrition, irritable bowel constipation, loss of appetite, acute cold, fever and persistent inflammation should not eat chestnuts.
The benefits of eating chestnuts have been mentioned in this paper, but in addition, chestnuts also have the ability to resist hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other diseases. Because chestnuts are rich in calcium, chestnuts also have the function of strengthening tendons and bones. Since there are so many benefits of eating chestnuts, you might as well eat more chestnuts in your life!