Spleen and stomach, kidney and blood.

Water chestnut is nutritious, rich in starch, protein, glucose, unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, and easy to digest and absorb.

2. Eating water chestnut can replenish the spleen and stomach, strengthen the legs and knees, and strengthen the muscles and qi.

Water chestnut porridge is beneficial to gastrointestinal tract, which can reduce fire, eliminate disease and strengthen body. It is good for health for the elderly to eat often. Boiled beef with water chestnut has a good therapeutic effect on relieving neuralgia, headache, joint pain and lumbago and leg pain.

3. Eating water chestnut has the effect of beauty and health care.

The ancients believed that eating more water chestnuts can tonify the five internal organs, eliminate all diseases and make people keep fit. The so-called intellectual fit bodybuilding has the function of losing weight and bodybuilding, because eating water chestnut can increase the satiety of the abdomen and is not easy to accumulate fat, so it is suitable for simple obese people to eat during weight loss.

In addition: try not to eat water chestnut raw, and don't chew the skin with your teeth. Be sure to wash it raw, soak it in boiling water for a few minutes or dry it for a day before eating. Wash your hands when touching aquatic plants or sewage to prevent metacercariae pollution.

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Precautions for eating water chestnut:

1. Water chestnut belongs to the fruit of aquatic plants, and it is in water during its growth, so it may contain parasites. Therefore, although you can eat it raw, you should not eat more to avoid infection with parasites.

2, water chestnut is a high starch food, should not eat more, so as not to cause obesity.

3. Water chestnut contains some exotic protein, which belongs to allergic substances. Therefore, people with allergies are not suitable for eating more, so as not to cause allergies.

Water chestnut food:

1, water chestnut+honey: easy to cause indigestion, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

2, water chestnut+pork: liver pain.

3, water chestnut+pork: liver pain.

4, water chestnut+honey: indigestion.

People's Health Network-Water chestnut can strengthen the spleen, nourish the stomach and replenish blood.

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