When autumn and winter are cold, the aroma of sugar-fried chestnuts fills the streets. When you hold a pack of steaming, red shiny sugar fried chestnuts in brown paper, peel off the crunchy shell, and eat a fragrant and delicious one, you can immediately feel the most soothing autumn and winter limited "fireworks", delicate and sweet, making people have a long aftertaste.
That's right, the protagonist of today's article is chestnut (commonly known as chestnut, also known as chestnut, hairy chestnut, oil chestnut).
Chestnut, known as the "king of dried fruits", is extremely effective
1. Strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach: chestnut is a kind of dried fruit with high carbohydrate content, which can provide more heat energy for the body, and can help fat metabolism, with the effect of invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen and thickening the stomach and intestines.
2. Strong muscles and bones: chestnut is rich in vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus and other nutrients, which can maintain the normal function of teeth and bones, and often eat can prevent osteoporosis, muscle and bone aches. Chestnut can also replenish the kidney, Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the main bone, so often eat chestnut can strengthen the muscles and bones.
3. Stop bleeding and reduce swelling: chestnut has the effect of stopping bleeding and reducing swelling, and has a relieving effect on vomiting blood, blood in the stool, nosebleeds, blood in the urine and other symptoms.
4. Repair aphthous sores: chestnut is rich in riboflavin and vitamin B2, and often eating chestnut has a significant effect on long-lasting children's mouth and tongue sores and adult mouth ulcers.
5. Prolong life: because chestnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, etc., it can resist oxidation, remove free radicals in the body, and enhance immunity; Prevention and treatment of hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other diseases. Middle-aged and elderly people often eat it, which can play a role in prolonging life.
In addition, eating chestnuts can also prevent cancer!
How does chestnut exert its anti-cancer effects?
Resistant starch (RS) is a kind of dietary fiber, which is a general term for starch and its decomposition that are not digested and absorbed in the healthy human small intestine, which can effectively regulate intestinal metabolism, promote the reproduction of probiotics in the intestine, slow down the rise of human blood sugar and produce good health protection.
The starch content in chestnut is 51%~60%, and 78% of it is resistant starch.
Some time ago, British researchers published a study with up to 10 years of follow-up and 20 years based on registration data in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, and found that resistant starch can prevent cancer.
The study included a double-blind controlled trial of 937 patients with Lynch syndrome, in which resistant starch was taken as a regular dose of dietary supplements for an average of 2 years, which did not affect bowel cancer, but reduced the risk of non-colorectal cancer with Lynch syndrome by more than half, especially upper gastrointestinal cancers (including esophageal, gastric, biliary, pancreatic and duodenal cancers). This amazing preventive effect can last for more than 10 years after stopping taking the supplement.
Lynch syndrome (LS)
It is due to germline mutations in a DNA mismatch repair gene (MMR) that leads to an increased risk of many cancers, especially colorectal cancer (CRC) and endometrial, ovarian, gastric, small intestine, pancreatic, cholangiocarcinoma, urinary tract cancer and other malignancies.
Chestnuts can prevent cancer, but if you expect that eating one or two meals will have a cancer-preventing effect, it is not realistic.
Pay attention when eating chestnuts
1. Although chestnuts are nutritious, eating too much raw chestnut is not easy to digest, and eating too much cooked is easy to flatulence, especially people with poor gastrointestinal function and digestive diseases should not eat more, so as not to aggravate the condition.
2. People with a cold spleen and stomach should not eat chestnuts raw, they should simmer and stir-fry, and they can also use chestnuts, dates, porridge, and rice to cook porridge and drink.
3. People suffering from blood disease, such as vomiting blood, blood in the stool, etc., should eat chestnuts raw.
4. Postpartum, post-illness and constipation should eat with caution.
5. Because it contains more carbohydrates, diabetics should eat chestnuts in moderation, eating chestnuts, it is best to boil them, it is not recommended to eat sugar fried chestnuts.
6. Chestnuts can replace rice, steamed buns, etc. as the main food, so when eating chestnuts, other staple foods with more carbohydrates need to be appropriately reduced.
7. When eating sugar stir-fried chestnuts, it is best to use your hands to open the chestnut shell before eating, rather than directly put the shelled chestnut in the mouth and bite the shell, so as not to eat the "industrial paraffin" added by unscrupulous traders in the process of sugar stir-frying chestnut, which contains mostly heavy metal residues attached to the chestnut shell.
Write at the end
Cooking methods such as soup, porridge and steaming are more suitable for friends with tumor patients, and although chestnuts are nutritious, they should not be consumed in large quantities throughout the day.
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