According to official news reports, a 27-year-old woman loves raw water chestnuts in her life, but in the past two years, she has felt serious physical discomfort, especially the faint pain in her abdomen, and sometimes the pain is unbearable or even sleepless.
The woman went to the hospital for examination and learned that the original abdominal pain was due to the survival of ginger slice worms in the body. Many netizens have wondered after seeing it, is water chestnut not a fruit? How is it related to ginger slice worms?
Is water chestnut a fruit? Can I eat it raw?
Water chestnut is indeed a fruit, people who have eaten raw will find it refreshing and delicious, tender and juicy, and even comparable to the fruit snowflake pear, but it is not a delicacy that we can eat raw. Although there is no problem with eating it raw now, the hidden dangers have always existed.
What are the health risks if you eat water chestnut raw? Infectious disease doctors said: According to the growth environment of water chestnut, it is mainly in the soil, and such a living state is very easy to make water chestnut itself with parasites, which is very typical of ginger flakes.
Ginger flakes are called "cloth ginger flakes flukes", can parasitize in the small intestine of people, as the parasite gradually grows, people will have more serious abdominal pain, its suction cups will also lead to gastric mucosa detachment, inflammation, necrosis, and even bleeding, as well as indigestion, increased bowel movements (diarrhea, constipation occurs).
If it is a person with low immunity, the phenomenon will be more serious, and if it is a child and adolescent, physical development disorders may occur. Even if water chestnut has many benefits, if you just eat it raw every day, there is a risk of parasitic infection.
What is the correct way to eat water chestnut?
According to the records in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", water chestnut can clear heat, detoxify, reduce fire, moisturize the lungs, and relieve cough and phlegm. Compared with raw food, eating water chestnut can not only avoid the danger of small intestine infection with parasites such as ginger flakes, but also play a health benefit.
If in season, such as autumn and winter, you prefer water chestnuts can also be dried, blanched in hot water for a few minutes, can also be eaten as a snack, is a very good natural food. However, people with chronic diseases should pay attention to the fact that because the calories of water chestnut are still high, eat a few as part of the staple food, and do not eat too much.
In addition, it is also necessary to remind everyone that, like water chestnuts, growing in a poor environment, such as aquatic foods, diamond horns, russet white, etc., for safety reasons, it is best to cook them.
In order to warm up, you can also use water chestnut as one of the ingredients, which is a very good color and flavor-enhancing food, suitable for most people to eat. If you eat water chestnut once, you will have gastrointestinal discomfort, and the same is true for cooked food, it is likely that you are allergic to water chestnut, so don't force yourself.