Water chestnut is usually steamed 10- 15 minutes. If a pressure cooker is used, the time can be reduced appropriately. Pressure cooker steaming is convenient and fast. The shelf life of steamed water chestnut is ten to fifteen days. However, the steamed water chestnut can't be good, so it must be dried with surface moisture, and the surface of water chestnut can be ventilated with cloth bags or sandbags.

What are the taboos for eating water chestnut?

1. Dysentery patients should avoid eating more water chestnut, also known as water chestnut, water chestnut, etc. It is an aquatic crop of fruits, grains and vegetables in autumn, mainly containing sugar, fat, protein, inorganic salts and other ingredients. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dysentery is mostly damp-heat stagnation in the intestine, so it is forbidden to eat tonic food. Water chestnut is often used to strengthen the spleen, benefit the stomach and thicken the intestines, which has obvious nourishing effect. Dysentery patients will get worse if they eat water chestnut. Therefore, patients with dysentery in autumn should avoid eating more water chestnut.

2, cold patients should avoid eating more water chestnut. In the autumn fruit and vegetable market, water chestnut is a timely food for people to eat. But people who have a cold should avoid eating more water chestnuts. Chinese medicine believes that patients with colds should eat foods that have the function of dispersing exterior and avoid nourishing food. Water chestnut nourishes qi and loves evil. If people who have a cold eat more water chestnut, it will cause lingering diseases.

3, taking glucocorticoids Don't eat water chestnut in autumn life. Patients with certain diseases need to take glucocorticoids, and glucocorticoids can promote sugar production and inhibit sugar decomposition. After taking them, blood sugar can rise rapidly, so avoid eating water chestnut and other foods with more sugar.

4, water chestnut can not eat too much. In fact, as long as it is suitable, it's not a big deal, and there are not many taboos. Water chestnut can't eat too much. Eating water chestnut raw is healthy, but it is easy to have high starch content or high sugar content after cooking. This kind of food is easy to get fat, so you'd better not eat water chestnut like this.