Walnut is mainly rich in fat, including linoleic acid glyceride, linolenic acid glyceride and oleic acid glyceride, which is beneficial to reduce the increase of cholesterol in blood and is very helpful for the health care of patients with arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Chinese medicine has called walnuts "longevity fruit" since ancient times, and holds that walnuts can tonify the kidney and brain, tonify the middle energizer, and nourish the skin and blacken the hair. Zhang said that walnuts are most suitable for mental workers, especially white-collar women, because these people often overuse their brains and consume sad blood. Eating walnuts regularly can replenish the brain, improve brain circulation and enhance brain power. At the same time, it also has the effect of blackening hair and moistening skin. Because "hair is bleeding" and blood is black, walnuts are rich in vitamins, which can improve the physiological activity of human skin, so they are beautiful products for women.

Walnuts are very effective for nourishing the brain. According to the research of modern nutrition, clean walnut kernel, after removing about 50% waste such as shell, contains 63% linoleic acid and 16.4% linolenic acid, and is rich in protein, phosphorus, calcium, vitamins and a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, which can enhance the elasticity of cerebral vessels, promote the vitality of nerve cells and improve the physiological function of the brain. Moreover, walnuts contain high phospholipids, which can maintain the normal metabolism of cells, enhance cell vitality and prevent brain cells from declining. In Japan, nutritionists advocate that school-age children eat 2 ~ 3 walnuts every day, which is very helpful for those children who are anxious, weak, tired of learning and slow to respond.

Analysis of nutritional components of walnut;

Heat (627.00 kcal)

Protein (14.90g)

Fat (58.80g)

Carbohydrate (9.60 g)

Dietary fiber (9.50g)

Vitamin a (5.00 micrograms)

Thiamine (0.15mg)

Riboflavin (0. 14 mg)

Nicotinic acid (0.90 mg)

Vitamin e (43.2 1 mg)

Calcium (56.00 mg)

Phosphorus (294.00 mg)

Sodium (6.40 mg)

Magnesium (13 1.00 mg)

Iron (2.70 mg)

Zinc (2. 17 mg)

Selenium (4.62 μ g)

Copper (1.17mg)

Manganese (3.44 mg)

Potassium (385.00 mg)

One: Suggestions on how to eat walnuts:

A good way to eat is to make walnut porridge with walnuts, red dates and rice, because walnuts can supplement the "innate foundation" and rice and red dates can supplement the "acquired foundation". This combination has the best health care effect.

Second, the main way to eat walnuts:

Besides being eaten raw, walnuts can be made into many kinds of vegetables. Here are a few classic practices for you to choose and try.

1. Walnut pot chicken: (Zhejiang cuisine)

Ingredients: clean chicken1000g, walnut kernel 250g, onion125g. Tomato paste 100g, sugar 40g, refined salt.

Exercise:

1) Wash the chicken, cut it into 20 pieces, marinate it with refined salt for a while, soak the walnut kernel in boiling water and peel it;

2) Wash onion, cut into pieces, and put it into a meat grinder together with walnut kernel for later use;

3) Put the minced chicken and tomato sauce into a pot, add a proper amount of chicken soup, mix well and boil, add chicken pieces to boil, then stew with slow fire, add refined salt and sugar to adjust the taste, put it in a jar, and put it on a stove plate to boil slightly with slow fire.

2. Walnut fried chicken: (Yunnan-Guizhou cuisine)

Ingredients: chicken breast 300g, walnut kernel 50g, egg 1 piece, peanut oil 50g (actually edible 50g), salt 3g, cooking wine 20g, monosodium glutamate 1 g, ginger juice 5g and flour10g.

Exercise:

1) Wash the chicken breast, cut it into large pieces, put it in a bowl, add salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate and ginger juice, and marinate for a while. Put the peach kernel into a bowl, pour it into boiling water and cook for a while. When it becomes soft, pour off the water, peel it off with a toothpick, chop it up with a knife and put it on a plate. Knock the eggs into a bowl, break them and mix them into liquid;

2) Dip a thin layer of flour on both sides of chicken breast slices, then evenly dip a layer of egg liquid, put them into a peach kernel plate, evenly dip peach kernels on both sides, pat them gently with your hands and stick them firmly;

3) Put the pot on the fire, put the oil on it and burn it for more than five minutes. When it is hard, golden in color and cooked inside, take it out, control the oil, change the knife and cut it into small pieces, and put it on the plate according to the original pattern.

3. Walnut porridge: (nourishing formula)

Ingredients: 50 grams of walnut kernel and 60 grams of rice.

Exercise:

Wash rice and walnuts and cook them in the same pot.

Usage: Can be used as a snack for breakfast and dinner.

Efficacy: tonifying kidney, strengthening brain and treating stranguria. It is suitable for insomnia, amnesia, pain, lumbago, urinary calculi, unclean urine and turbid urine.

4. Walnut Tofu Pills: (weight loss formula)

Ingredients: 250g of tofu, 2 eggs, 50g of flour, 500g of salad oil, 500g of stock, salt, starch, pepper, monosodium glutamate and walnut kernel.

Exercise:

Crush tofu with a spoon, beat in eggs, add salt, starch, bean powder, pepper and monosodium glutamate, and mix well into 20 balls with a walnut kernel in the middle. Stir-fry the meatballs with salad oil until 50% to 60% hot.

5. Walnut kernel mixed with celery: (nourishing formula)

Ingredients: 300g celery, 50g walnut kernel, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.

Exercise:

1) Wash celery, cut into 3cm long pieces, blanch in boiling water for 2 minutes, and take out. Be careful not to cook it too hot.

2) Rinse the blanched celery with cold water, drain the water, put it on a plate, and add refined salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.

3) Soak the walnut kernel in hot water, remove the epidermis, blanch it in boiling water for 5 minutes, take it out, put it on celery, and mix well when eating.

Efficacy:

Celery is rich in vitamin C, iron and plant cellulose, which has the functions of moistening skin, improving eyesight and nourishing blood, and plant cellulose is beneficial to defecation; Peaches and peach kernels contain carotene, vitamin b 1 and vitamin E. This dish is good for treating postpartum constipation and hypertension.

6. Roasted mutton with walnuts: (nourishing recipe)

Ingredients: walnut kernel 150g, mutton 300g, egg 100g, flour 15g, a little salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, ginger juice and cooking oil 75g.

Exercise:

1) Cut the mutton into 0.3 cm thick slices, put them in a bowl, add refined salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate and ginger juice, mix well and marinate for a while.

2) Wash walnut kernels with boiling water, pour out the water, rinse them with boiling water again, stew for a while, then pour out the water, peel them with bamboo sticks after softening, and chop them into pieces and don't put them on the plate.

3) Beat the eggs into the bowl and mix well.

4) All the mutton is dipped in a thin layer of flour, then dipped in even egg liquid, and put into a dish filled with chopped walnuts. Dip evenly on both sides, pat gently with your hands and put into the dish.

5) Put the oil in the pan, heat it to 50% to 60%, put the walnut mutton in the oil pan, soak it and fry it for 2 or 3 minutes, then take it out and put it on the plate.

Efficacy: Bushen Jiannao.

Walnut is sweet and warm, and has the functions of nourishing kidney, calming nerves and strengthening brain. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kidney governs will (a part of mental activity function), and kidney deficiency can cause a series of diseases such as insomnia, forgetfulness, dizziness and tinnitus. If you can eat some walnuts regularly, it will be of great benefit to these diseases. Some people think that eating walnuts regularly is of great help to promote brain nerve function and enhance memory. Mutton tastes sweet and warm, and eggs taste sweet and flat, both of which have the effect of tonifying deficiency and benefiting kidney. This therapy has therapeutic effect on insomnia, forgetfulness, soreness of waist and knees, tinnitus, blurred vision and shortness of breath caused by kidney deficiency and physical weakness.