Where does the "aquatic plant" water chestnut grow? How do you eat it? What are the effects and effects?

Water chestnut is a kind of rhombic family, rhombus genus. Also known as waist lotus, water chestnut, diamond fruit, taste sweet, cool, non-toxic, is the fruit of annual herbaceous aquatic plant, water chestnut is rich in starch, protein, glucose, unsaturated fatty acids and a variety of vitamins, where does the water chestnut grow? How do you eat it? What are the effects and effects?

Where does the water chestnut grow?

The water chestnut does not grow on the root of the chestnut. It is made from the flowers on the stem that are pollinated into small fruits, and then grow up under the water to become water chestnuts. When picking, lift the leaves up, you can see them, and then pick them.

When does the water chestnut mature?

The flesh of water chestnut is edible, tender stems can be used as vegetables, and the fruit has sharp horns, commonly known as water chestnut.

Grow in the lake, mature around August every year, water chestnut vine has green leaves, the leaf shape is rhombus, so the fruit is called water chestnut son. The stem is purplish red with bright yellow flowers. Ling is an annual herbaceous aquatic plant, also known as "peanut in the water", the fruit "water chestnut" is a nut, perpendicular to the dense leaves in the water, the whole plant must be picked up upside down before it can be seen. After autumn, the fruit hardens, and if the wild water chestnut is not picked, it will gradually fall off from the stem and sink to the bottom of the water, and sprout in the coming year. Usually, after entering the spring of February, we have to set up a breeding ground for intensive cultivation of seedlings. after the first phase of rice harvest from the end of May to the beginning of June in early summer, the rice fields will be prepared to build land, build ridges, divert water into the fields, and transplant water chestnut seedlings.

There are many kinds of water chestnut, the artificially cultivated ones can be the size of matchboxes, the wild ones are small, and the small ones are only as large as fingernails. There are cyan, red and purple, crisp skin and meat, delicious, can be regarded as a good fruit can also be used as food. It is generally eaten after cooking, or chopped into fine particles after drying, or boiled porridge can also be eaten.

The efficacy and function of water chestnut

Water chestnut is sweet and cold, rich in starch, glucose, protein, vitamin B and C, water chestnut steroid tetraene, β-sitosterol and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients.

It is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica: eating water chestnut can relieve heat and heat, eliminate annoyance and quench thirst, replenish qi and invigorate the spleen, and dispel diseases and strengthen the body. Pharmacologically speaking, it also has many benefits to the human body:

1. Tonifying the spleen, tonifying qi and invigorating the spleen, strengthening the knee, invigorating and invigorating qi

two。 The pure water immersion solution of anti-cancer and water chestnut can inhibit the degeneration and tissue proliferation of cancer cells.

3. Weight loss, water chestnut diuresis, milk dredging, alcohol detoxification, is a supplementary food for weight loss.

4. Relieve skin diseases, assist in the treatment of children's head sores, yellow water sores on the head, skin warts and other skin diseases

How to eat water chestnut

There are many ways to eat water chestnut, which can be boiled in salt water and can be eaten with porridge.

Boiled water chestnut

Ingredients: water chestnut, water.

Practice:

(1) wash the water chestnut.

(2) wash the pot, and then put the washed water chestnut into the pot.

(3) the added water should pass through the water chestnut and be out of the pot in 15 minutes.

Water chestnut syrup

Ingredients: water chestnut, baking soda powder, sugar, water.

Practice:

(1) first cook the water chestnut with water, then add an appropriate amount of baking soda powder to the water to make it more convenient to peel.

(2) after cooking and peeling, take appropriate amount of water to cook the water chestnut thoroughly.

(3) add appropriate amount of white sugar to the pot.

Lingfen cake

Ingredients: water chestnut, glutinous rice flour, sugar.

Practice:

(1) peel the water chestnut, dry it and grind it into fine powder, then mix it with glutinous rice flour and add the right amount of sugar.

(2) put it into the drawer, steam it over high heat, remove and cut into pieces.

Tip: Lingfen cake is a famous food in the Qing Dynasty, which has the effect of invigorating the spleen and stomach and benefiting strength.

The applicable population of water chestnut

The general population can eat it. Water chestnut is rich in starch, protein, glucose, fat, carotene, vitamin B1, B2, vitamin C and other vitamins and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, and does not contain fat that makes people fat. it has the effect of weight loss and bodybuilding, and can tonify the spleen and stomach, strengthen the knee, strengthen the knee, invigorate the stomach and intestines, dissolve internal heat, and the elderly often eat beneficial.

How to choose water chestnut

Raw water chestnuts should be green, tender and crisp, like water chestnuts

Cooked to eat yellow or red, is fully mature, cooked taste soft powder waxy, similar to cooked chestnuts.