1, water chestnut can regulate the body's acid-base balance water chestnut contains a lot of phosphorus, phosphorus is the body's growth and development, maintain physiological functions of the necessities of the development of teeth and bones is also very good, can help regulate the acid-base balance. 7-8 years old child consumption is very beneficial, when I was a child, I often eat as a snack.

2, water chestnut can cure constipation, stop thirst water chestnut in the crude protein, starch, can help promote intestinal peristalsis, on the smooth bowel laxative has a very good effect, can solve the constipation trouble. Water chestnut is tender and juicy, which can treat the symptoms of thirst. People to middle age, eat more water chestnuts, than eating health products laxative and so on, to be much better.

3, water chestnut can prevent cancer water chestnut is rich in dietary fiber, there are a lot of benefits to the human body, eating a certain amount of dietary fiber every day can prevent the occurrence of colorectal cancer. In this era of no effective cancer treatment drugs, prevention is always necessary.

4, water chestnut can promote growth and development water chestnut contains more potassium and phosphorus, and contains a small amount of protein, each 100 grams of water chestnut contains 44 mg of phosphorus, is indispensable for growth and development. For elementary school students, eating water chestnuts is good for long bones.

But water chestnuts are not good for eating more than one. It is not suitable for people with weak digestion, cold spleen and stomach, loose stools and blood stagnation. Diabetic patients can also eat water chestnuts, but to eat before and after noon, each time to two appropriate, not more than four a day, so as to avoid blood sugar rises too quickly.

Excessive consumption of food in ordinary circumstances can be unfavorable. The skin of water chestnut is difficult to digest if eaten raw.

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The water chestnut thing is okay, and still has a lot of benefits.

1. It can be eaten and is good for the body. The most content in water chestnut is phosphorus, so it has the advantage of phosphorus, which can promote human metabolism and human development.
   
   
2. It can be used as a medicinal herb. It is effective in clearing heat and removing toxins, and most importantly, it can lower blood pressure, so it becomes a boon for hypertensive patients.
   
   
3. You can't eat too much. There is a familiar saying that what goes around comes around, it can be used to describe that everything is the same, if you eat too much of it, it loses its original value and brings discomfort or even harm to your body.
   
   

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   It's that saying, things are good, but in moderation。

Water chestnut, also known as horseshoe, is sweet, refreshing and juicy, and consuming water chestnut has a number of health benefits.

1, phosphorus in water chestnut can be favorable to human growth and development. Favorable to the development of teeth and bones, but also to promote human sugar, fat, protein metabolism, adjust the balance of acid and alkaline, very suitable for children to eat.

2, water chestnut can prevent acute infectious diseases, measles, epidemic meningitis and other susceptible diseases. Water chestnut is cold, which can clear heat, remove fire and produce fluids. Helps fever, but also can have cool blood, detoxification, laxative, expectorant, elimination of food and other effects.

3, according to British research, water chestnut has "water chestnut Ying", can inhibit gold-colored staphylococcus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and so on are, but also can have the effect of lowering blood pressure, prevention and treatment of cancer.

4, water chestnut can be on the diabetes, play auxiliary therapeutic effect.

5, water chestnut used to decoction, can diuretic, drainage, treatment of urinary leakage astringent disease, water chestnut has antiviral substances, can be used to prevent the brain, influenza and so on.

6, water chestnut, water chestnut to medicinal diet, help women functional uterine bleeding.

Precautions for consuming water chestnuts

Don't eat water chestnut raw, because water chestnut grows in the soil, it will be easy to have bacteria and parasites attached to it, therefore, it is safer to cook it before consumption.

Water chestnut is also known as horseshoe, also called ground chestnut, because he looks like a horseshoe and like chestnuts. Produced in the country, the whole country has , tropical, subtropical areas are more distributed.
Benefits of eating water chestnuts.

1. It contains a large amount of phosphorus, which is essential for human growth and development, and for maintaining physiological functions. It is also very beneficial to the development of teeth and bones, and can also regulate the acid-base balance.
2. It can help promote peristalsis, which is good for promoting smooth bowel movements and constipation, as well as treating symptoms of thirst.
3. It also has a lot of dietary fiber in it. Eating it regularly can prevent colon cancer.

• Of course, you can't have too much of any good thing.
  

1. It belongs to the cool ingredients, with diuretic function, eat too much will cause indigestion, the body is too heavy cool.

2. It can cause stomach pain, diarrhea and aggravate the burden on the stomach and intestines.

Caution.

Because it is a cool ingredient, so do not eat more. It is also not easy to consume for those who have a cold body, and it must be washed when consumed because there are many bacteria attached to the surface of the mud when it grows.

It is quite delicious, but when eating raw, be careful when washing and drying the skin to be very careful, for fear of having ginger bug eggs. Eat raw horseshoes and cool and sweet, we often call it to do Guilin horseshoes, to pick the body flat head, the top of the head of the bud is relatively very short, the skin color brown-brown kind to buy. And call the water horseshoe of a round enterprise body color black starch more often for cooked food, raw food slag is not sweet should be ground into horseshoe powder or pot children often drink carrot cane horseshoe water to clear heat.

I always wondered what a water chestnut was. Then I saw the picture and realized it said to ask What are the benefits of horseshoes?

Each place called different, Guangdong side called horseshoes. I remember when I was a kid, when there were still fields near my home, there were a lot of children to dig up horseshoes to eat, wash them and eat them as a small fruit, but also to quench their thirst.

So what are the benefits of eating water chestnuts?

Horseshoe is cold in nature and contains mucus, which has the effect of clearing the lungs and relieving cough, generating fluids and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for thirst, dry mouth, cough and urinary tract infection and diabetes. For patients with constipation is very applicable Oh.

In the past, the kind of clean water and no pollution is suitable for raw food, but now a lot of land has been contaminated, it is best not to eat raw, the outer skin and the interior may have more bacteria and parasites, it is best to wash and cook thoroughly after eating.

Nourishing ingredients to make with horseshoes are as follows:

Juice of horseshoes, cooling the blood, detoxifying and clearing the throat

Horseshoe cake, calories are not high, very suitable for dieters to eat, and has a very good regulation of the human body. My mom will also have time to do horseshoe cake, anyway, really delicious.

Lotus Root, Horseshoe and Silver Flower Soup

This ingredient is really yin nourishing, clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs. If you need to nourish yin, you may want to make it and eat it!

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There are benefits, can promote human growth and development, good for dental bone development, promote sugar, fat, protein metabolism, contains more crude fiber, has the effect of laxative.

However, water chestnut is a cold food and eating too much of it may lead to diarrhea, so you should not eat too much of it.

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Water chestnut has many aliases, such as "horse shoe", "water chestnut", "ground chestnut", "money onion", "mushroom", and "prickly turtle".

Water chestnut is quite nutritious, rich in a variety of mineral components, such as potassium, which is essential for the human body, 100g of water chestnut containsThere are 306mg of potassium, potassium is the "longevity element" in the human body, which can balance the ionic balance in the body, stabilize the heart rate, promote calcium absorption, and prevent osteoporosis. Water chestnut is also rich in phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, calcium, selenium, manganese, copper and other trace elements, appropriate to eat some water chestnut can also add a lot of nutrients!. Water chestnuts contain a certain amount of vitamin C, vitamin E and vitamin A, vitamin B, and rich in dietary fiber, if eaten appropriately, can laxative, prevent constipation.

Water chestnut has some antibacterial effect, research found that it has a certain inhibitory effect on golden glucose coccus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosaThe phosphorus content is very rich. The phosphorus element is very rich, is one of the stem vegetables in the content of two, can promote the body sugar, fat, protein metabolism, regulating the acid-base balance.Water chestnut has sufficient water content and can produce fluids to quench thirst. It can relieve chronic bronchitis, phlegm and cough, dry and sore throat, and can moisten and clear the throat. Water chestnut is content, not suitable for people with cold stomach and intestines, weak spleen and stomach, blood deficiency, blood stasis body to eat a lot of people. However, water chestnuts have a refreshing texture, plenty of moisture, and a unique flavor that makes them suitable for cooking with greasy fillings, such as dumpling fillings, broths, and stir-fried meats, which not only relieve greasiness, but also provide richer nutrients, as well as a unique taste.

Water chestnut can clear lung heat, produce fluids and moisturize the lungs, but also can diuretic swelling, cool blood and dampness, can be used to assist in the treatment of fever, jaundice, red eyes, sore throat and other symptoms of wind-heat colds and micro-heat discomforts also have effect.

One winter before and after the Spring Festival got a cold There are no other symptoms, just do not listen to cough, phlegm. Took Chinese medicine, Western medicine are not effective, and then a friend said to eat water chestnuts have the effect of phlegm cough, let me eat raw water chestnuts, adhere to a week. In fact, I have long heard that water chestnuts are sweet and refreshing to eat raw, but I think it is bought back to wash away the mud, but also peeling, which peeling time may be longer than the time to eat. Let others peel and feel unhygienic, back to dare not eat raw, so has not been very enthusiastic about water chestnuts. This time, I listened to my friend's words and prepared to eat water chestnuts for a week. I just ate it for two days, and I felt that my cough was much better and my phlegm was less.

Later, I saw water chestnut in "Compendium of Materia Medica", and it turned out that our ancestors had recorded it long ago. According to Li Shizhen, water chestnut can "cure thirst, warm the middle and benefit qi, under the Dan stone, eliminate wind poison, in addition to the chest of real heat". Underground Snow Pear", "Jiangnan ginseng" reputation.

Water chestnut, has the effect of cooling blood and detoxifying, diuretic and laxative, resolving dampness and expelling phlegm, eliminating food and swelling, etc. It is especially suitable for patients with fever. Moreover, water chestnut is tender and juicy, which can treat fever and thirst, and it has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetic patients with excessive urination. In addition to eating water chestnut raw, decocted water chestnut juice is a good product for patients with urinary tract infection, which can inhibit bacteria, and can also lower blood pressure and prevent tumors in the lungs and mammary glands. In addition, water chestnut can also be made into dishes, such as fried pork slices with water chestnut, crystal sugar lotus seed water chestnut sugar water, boiled chicken soup, pork chop soup put a few water chestnuts can also increase the fresh and sweet taste.

Water chestnut so good, but need to pay attention to a point, spleen and kidney deficiency and cold and have blood stasis of the highest people do not eat, otherwise it will aggravate the condition.

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The nature and therapeutic efficacy of water chestnut and Snow Pear are very similar, are cool, can moisten the throat to remove dryness, clear heat and fire. The difference is that although water chestnut is rich in crude fiber, but the texture of the mouth is more delicate compared to Sydney (Sydney), raw food taste is more sweet and crispy, and the sweetness will be much weaker when consumed in soup. At the same time, water chestnuts are rich in potassium and phosphorus, for children's growth and development is also very beneficial.

However, because of the growth environment of water chestnuts, the location of the pigtail at the top may remain some parasites, plus water chestnuts cold raw food on the spleen and stomach have a certain degree of stimulation, I and my family Mr. spleen and stomach are not too good, so usually more than water chestnuts to make soup to drink, especially in spring and autumn when the change of seasons, add some silver fungus and dried fruits stewed on a small fire to the silver fungus out of the gel, hot bowl of moisturizing the skin can also alleviate the haze! days caused by throat discomfort.

Silver Fungus and Water Chestnut Sweet Soup

Main Ingredients:

Ingredients: silver ear 1 small 20 grams or so, half a catty of water chestnuts, 1 small handful of dried Virgin fruit (basically no sweetness, slightly sour), 30 grams of rock sugar, 1500 ml of water.

Method.

1. Rinse the silver fungus, soak in warm water until it rises, then remove the tip and tear into small pieces, rinse again and control the water and set aside.

2. Remove the top of the water chestnuts from the water chestnuts, scrub them well with salt water, peel them and cut them into large pieces.

3. dried Virgin fruit rinsed, time enough if you can soak in warm water for half an hour, if you are in a hurry, you can omit, a moment directly into the pot to cook soup can also be.

4. soup pot into a sufficient amount of water, under the silver fungus, water chestnuts, dried fruit and rock sugar, cover the pot with a lid on high heat to boil and then turn on low heat and stew for about 40 minutes, until the silver fungus out of the gelatin, the soup began to thicken and then turn off the fire. Serve while hot is more moist, cool and drink the sweet flavor will be a little heavier.