2, food advice, try not to eat raw water chestnut, water chestnut, lotus root, 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.
3. How long will the water chestnut be cooked? Water chestnut usually takes 10- 15 minutes to cook. If a pressure cooker is used, the time can be reduced appropriately. Cooking in a pressure cooker is convenient and quick. The shelf life of boiled water chestnut is ten to fifteen days. But you can't boil water chestnut, well, you must dry the surface moisture and ventilate the surface of water chestnut with a cloth bag or sandbag.
Water chestnut, also called water chestnut. The two horns are diamonds, shaped like horns. Triangle and four corners are cockroaches. Growing in a lake. Horseshoe grows most easily when it falls in mud. There are Yeling and Jialing, both born in March, which have been passed down for a long time. The leaves floating on the water are flat, sharp and very smooth, and there are stems below. Small white flowers bloom in May and June, open at night, close during the day and move with the month. There are several kinds of fruits: hornless, double-angled, triangular and four-angled. There are thorns on the corners, which are thin and brittle and grow on the corners. Aquatic plants. Annual floating or semi-erect aquatic plants. Root type 2: iron wire with mud roots, planted in sediment; Assimilated roots, pinnately divided, filiform lobes, light green or dark reddish brown. The stem is cylindrical, slender or stubby. Leaf type 2: floating leaves alternate and gather at the stem end, forming a rosette diamond on the water surface. The leaves are rhombic in width, 3-4.5 cm long and 4-6 cm wide, with dark green surface, hairless, green or purplish red on the back, densely covered with fawn short hairs (young leaves) or grayish brown short hairs (old leaves), concave shallow teeth in the middle and upper part of the edge, and full at the lower part of the edge. Petiole length is 2-10.5 cm; The middle and upper parts expand into sponge-like airbags with short hair; Submerged leaves are small and fall early. Flowers are small, solitary in leaf axils, and pedicels are 1- 1.5 cm long; Calyx tube is 4-lobed, with only a pair of calyx hairs, of which 2 lobes evolved into horns; Petals 4, white, inserted at the edge of the upper disk; Stamens 4, filaments slender, anthers T-shaped, medicated, introverted; Pistil 2-carpellate, 2-loculed, ovary semi-inferior, style subulate, stigma capitate. The fruit has two horizontally spread shoulder angles, with or without barbs, and the top is bent downward, with the width between the two angles being 7-8 cm. The fruit is in a curved angle shape, with a fruit height of 2.5-3.6 cm. The young skin on the fruit surface is purple-red, purple-black when it matures, with a very short micro-quilt, an inconspicuous beak, and a thick and knotted fruit stalk with a length of 1.5-2.5 cm. The seeds are white, spindle-shaped, with dark corners and white powder. The flowering period is from April to August, and the fruiting period is from July to September. Also called "water chestnut", it is a seed plant.