Foods that are incompatible with chestnuts

Autumn is the best season to eat chestnuts because the chestnuts on the tall chestnut trees are fully ripe. At this time, you can pick the chestnuts and make different snacks and dishes. Moreover, chestnuts are also a kind of nut food, so the carbohydrates contained in chestnuts are very sufficient, and eating more chestnuts is also beneficial to the human body. However, when eating chestnuts, you should understand what foods chestnuts are incompatible with.

What can't chestnuts be eaten with?

Chestnut + lamb: getting angry and vomiting. Chestnuts cannot be eaten together with mutton, because both chestnuts and mutton are very hot foods. If you eat them at the same time, it is easy to cause getting a sore throat. Furthermore, both are difficult to digest, and it is not suitable to stew or stir-fry them together. Eating them together may even cause vomiting.

Chestnut + tofu: may cause stones. Tofu contains magnesium chloride and calcium sulfate, while chestnuts contain oxalic acid. The two foods together can produce magnesium oxalate and calcium oxalate. These two white precipitates not only affect the body's absorption of calcium, but also easily lead to stones. Similarly, tofu cannot be eaten with bamboo shoots, wild rice stems, spinach, etc.

Chestnut + almond: Eating them together will cause stomachache. Chestnuts cannot be eaten with almonds, as eating them together will cause stomach pain. Because almonds contain a high amount of oil and can easily cause diarrhea, they cannot be eaten with chestnuts. Almonds are hot foods and are slightly toxic. Eating too much can damage the muscles and bones and cause recurrence of old diseases. However, chestnuts contain more vitamin C. Therefore, if you eat chestnuts and almonds together, you will experience stomach pain. If you already have stomach problems, it will cause a relapse.

The best food to eat with chestnuts:

Chestnut + Chinese cabbage: remove freckles and dark circles

Chestnut + cabbage: remove freckles and dark circles

Chestnut + chicken: nourishing blood and body

What are the benefits of eating chestnuts

1. Replenishing Qi and tonifying spleen, strengthening stomach and thickening intestines. Chestnut is a kind of dried fruit with high carbohydrate content. It can provide more heat energy to the human body and help fat metabolism. It ensures the supply of basic nutrients for the body and is known as "hardcore crop" and "woody grain". It has the effects of invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen, and nourishing the gastrointestinal tract.

2. Prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. Chestnuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, multiple vitamins and minerals, which can effectively prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and arteriosclerosis, and are beneficial to human health.

3. Strengthen muscles and bones, delay aging. Chestnuts are rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal functions of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles. It can prevent and treat osteoporosis, sore waist and legs, muscle pain, fatigue, etc., delay human aging, and is an ideal health fruit for the elderly.

4. Eat chestnuts raw, 5 to 8 pieces a day. It is suitable for people who suffer from vomiting blood or bloody stools.

5. Eating 2 raw chestnuts in the morning and evening is beneficial for elderly people with kidney deficiency and frequent urination. Boiling 10 chestnuts with pig kidney, coix seed and rice into porridge can treat weakness in the waist and legs caused by general kidney deficiency.

Chestnuts are rich in nutrients. Every 100 grams contains 62 to 70 grams of sugar and starch, 5.1 to 10.7 grams of protein, 2 to 7.4 grams of fat. They also contain vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin PP and inorganic salts. Modern medicine believes that the unsaturated fatty acids and multiple vitamins contained in chestnuts have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. If the elderly eat chestnuts regularly, they can achieve the purpose of anti-aging and longevity.

How to peel chestnuts

1. Hot water soaking method: Wash the raw chestnuts and put them in a container, add a little salt, immerse them in boiling water, and cover the pot. After 5 minutes, take out the chestnuts and cut them open, the chestnut skin will fall off along with the chestnut shell. This method of removing the chestnut skin saves time and effort.

2. Stirring method with chopsticks: Cut the chestnuts in half, peel them and put them in a basin. Add boiling water and soak them for a while. Stir them with chopsticks and the chestnut skin will separate from the chestnut meat. The soaking time should not be too long, otherwise it will affect the nutritional content of the chestnuts.

3. Refrigerator freezing method: After the chestnuts are cooked, cool them down and put them in the refrigerator for two hours to separate the shell and the meat. This way, the chestnut skin can be peeled quickly and the chestnut meat remains intact.

4. Microwave heating method: Cut the shell of the raw chestnuts you bought with scissors, put them in the microwave and heat them at high temperature for 30 seconds, the skin and flesh inside will automatically fall off. Before using this method to remove chestnut skins, be sure to cut open the shells, otherwise it may cause microwave malfunction.

5. Thermal expansion and contraction method: Use a knife to peel off the chestnut shells, put them into boiling water and cook for 3-5 minutes. After taking them out, immediately soak them in cold water for 3-5 minutes. It will be easy to peel off the chestnut shells and the taste will remain unchanged.

6. Sun exposure method: Place the raw chestnuts you want to eat in the sun for a day, and the chestnut shells will crack.