Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter He Lina Correspondent Li Xu
Recently, the streets have been filled with the smell of sugar-fried chestnuts, so foodies have begun to smell the aroma.
Chestnuts are known as the "King of Dried Fruits".
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Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts have a sweet taste, warm temperament, into the spleen, stomach, kidney meridians, has the effect of nourishing the stomach and spleen, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the muscles, activating blood and stopping bleeding.
In terms of nutritional value, chestnuts are rich in vitamin C and vitamin B2, which have a good effect on mouth ulcers in children and adults. The unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals contained in it can prevent and treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases, and is a good tonic for anti-aging, longevity and longevity.
However, this chestnut is full of "treasure", and eating too much will also damage health. Recently, the Gastroenterology Department of a hospital in Hangzhou encountered a patient who suffered from excessive consumption of chestnuts and unbearable bloating, and did not think about tea and dinner for several days.
So, how to eat this sweet and delicious chestnut to be both healthy and satisfying? Let's hear what Yang Renhua, director of the Nutrition Department of a hospital in Hangzhou, said.
Chestnuts contain protein, vitamin B and vitamin C, especially vitamin B2 content is at least 4 times that of rice, and cooked chestnuts are high in vitamin C and potassium. Unfortunately, chestnuts are a high-carbon water food, a kind of multigrain, although the fat content is very low, but the calorie is not low.
Every 100g of cooked chestnuts contains 46g of sugar and starch, 4.8g of protein, and 212 calories, and almost a dozen chestnuts are equal to the calories of a bowl of rice.
So, if you want to control your weight, if you eat chestnuts, subtract some of the staple food as appropriate.
Although chestnuts have the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, if you eat too much, it will hurt the stomach. Chestnuts are rich in dietary fiber, and when eating, you should chew slowly and swallow, otherwise these indigestible dietary fibers will accumulate in the body, which will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and cause indigestion. Normal people will retain a small amount of gas in the intestine every day, and excessive consumption of chestnuts will increase the gas in the intestine, forming gastrointestinal flatulence, resulting in constipation.
People with a bad spleen and stomach should not eat more than 50 grams of chestnuts, whether it is raw food or cooked food, eating chestnuts should not be too urgent, but should be chewed slowly, so that it is conducive to digestion and achieve better tonic effects.
Therefore, it is recommended to eat more than 10 chestnuts a day.
Chestnut starch content is high, sugar is also very high, so for people with gout, hyperlipidemia, diabetes and other chronic diseases, or eat less.
In addition, the open sugar fried chestnuts that sell too well may add industrial paraffin wax that is harmful to the body, and excessive intake will have a certain impact on the body. It is recommended to buy sugar fried chestnuts to choose regular merchants or bagged sugar fried chestnuts with food quality labels.
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