1, clearing away heat and cooling blood: lotus root is sweet and flat, eaten raw and cooked. Raw food has the function of clearing heat and cooling blood, which is especially beneficial to people with fever, thirst, hemoptysis and bleeding.

2, laxative, spleen appetizer: Lotus root contains mucin and dietary fiber, which can be combined with cholate in the human body, cholesterol and triglycerides in food, so that it is discharged from feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids.

Lotus root gives off a unique fragrance, and also contains tannin, which has certain functions of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, stimulating appetite and strengthening the body, and is beneficial to the recovery of people with poor appetite.

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Lotus root starch taboo:

1, soybeans and lotus roots are very similar in food: soybeans are rich in iron and cannot be eaten with lotus roots with more cellulose, because cellulose will affect the human body's absorption of iron.

2. Pig liver and lotus root are similar in food: lotus root contains cellulose, and aldonic acid in fiber can form a mixture with trace elements such as iron, copper and zinc in pig liver, which reduces the absorption of these elements by human body.

3. Lotus root starch contains too much starch, and most of the lotus root starch is extremely sweet, so it should not be eaten too much, and obese people should eat less.

People's Network-Lotus root starch is a good tonic, and eating more has four major benefits.