Introduction: What is water chestnut? Water chestnut can be eaten raw as a fruit, or cooked as a vegetable. Water chestnut is a relatively common food that people often enjoy. Therefore, the editor will introduce some common knowledge and ways to eat water chestnut.
I. What is water chestnut
Water chestnut is a food often seen in daily life. Because its shape is somewhat similar to a horse's hoof, it is called "horse's hoof". In addition, water chestnut is also called "earth chestnut" because it looks like a chestnut, and its taste and effects are similar to chestnuts.
Water chestnut is rich in nutritional value, containing abundant phosphorus, which can promote human development and metabolism, and also has a certain antibacterial effect. Water chestnut also has rich medicinal value, and can play the role of clearing heat and detoxifying, removing dampness and resolving phlegm, promoting urination, lowering blood pressure, relieving bloating, and relaxing the bowels.
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II. How to eat water chestnut most effectively
1. Eat raw as a fruit
Water chestnut can be eaten raw as a fruit, but note that water chestnuts grow in the soil, and their skins contain many bacteria. Therefore, you must peel and wash the water chestnuts, and rinse them with hot water to sterilize before eating. This way of eating water chestnut is relatively fresh, sweet, and crisp, and can retain its original flavor and nutrition.
2. Cooked as a vegetable
Water chestnut can also be cooked as a vegetable. Water chestnuts can be cooked with angelica and coix seed. First, slice the angelica and put it in a pot of clear water, boil for half an hour, then remove the dregs of angelica. Put the chopped water chestnuts and coix seeds into the pot and cook until cooked. When the angelica, coix seed, and water chestnut porridge is not so hot, you can add an appropriate amount of honey according to your personal taste. Angelica, coix seed, and water chestnut porridge can improve human immunity, clear heat and detoxify, effectively relieve symptoms of sore throat, and play a role in preventing cancer.
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Water chestnuts can also be stewed with figs for soup. The materials needed are water chestnuts, figs, an appropriate amount of ginger, and sucrose. First, peel, wash, and dice the water chestnuts; wash and cut the figs; take an appropriate amount of ginger. Then put the water chestnuts, figs, and ginger into a stewing pot, add sucrose and an appropriate amount of clear water, and stew for about two hours before eating. Water chestnut and fig soup can clear heat and detoxify.
Although water chestnut is rich in nutritional value, it should be noted that patients with blood stasis and people with cold kidneys and spleen should not eat it.
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