Now is the season of chestnut harvest, this year's harvest of chestnuts in Pingnan, Fujian, and this year's market is good, the purchase price of a pound can reach about 10 yuan, have you eaten chestnuts? Is there a difference between chestnuts and chestnuts? Don't worry, let's learn more about it today
Cone chestnut, is a deciduous tree of the genus Cyperaceae, up to 20 to 30 meters tall, with a straight trunk, hairless young branches, interspersed purple-brown leaves, ovate lanceolate, and serrated edges
The flowering period is May, its flowers are very interesting, one by one, and many, when in full bloom, the trees are full of flowers, very spectacular
June to October is its fruit stage, the shell of the family must have a hard appearance, you see: this whole shell is hard prickly thorns, like a hedgehog? So picking chestnuts also requires professional pliers or gloves
It has only one nut in each shell bucket, which is ovoid or conical, and then has a pointed tip, shaped like a large drop of water
The fruit is rich in starch, the taste is sweet and sticky, very delicious, can be fried, steamed, boiled or boiled soup, there are many ways to eat
Cone chestnut is one of the important woody grain plants in China, chestnut in the < poetry > in the plant, in China from now cultivated should have more than two thousand years, China is the origin of chestnut, the annual output ranks first in the world
The world cone chestnut in China, the Chinese cone chestnut in Fujian, the history book (Jianning Fu Zhi) recorded as early as the Ming Dynasty period, chestnuts are as a royal tribute to the imperial palace, the history is called "tribute hazel"
In ancient times, many celebrities loved to eat, such as Lu You, when his teeth were loose in his old age, he thought that his kidneys might be bad, so he ate chestnuts every day to regulate, and Su Dongpo, in his later years, his waist and legs would be sore, and he ate raw chestnuts every day
However, although chestnuts are good, but its nuts contain sugar, starch, protein, fat and a variety of vitamins, minerals, rich in nutrition, should not eat too much at one time!
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that cone chestnut has the functions of tonifying the kidneys and benefiting qi, treating waist and foot failure, internal cold diarrhea, and activating blood and dissolving stasis. [2] Leaf and shell bucket: bitter, astringent, flat. For damp heat, diarrhea. Seeds: Sweet, Flat. For kidney deficiency, weakness, wasting
What is the difference between a chestnut and a cone chestnut? The difference between cone chestnut and chestnut is that the appearance is not the same at all, the chestnut side is flat, and the cone chestnut is conical, and the cone chestnut tastes sweeter and stickier, and the value is higher and more valuable than the chestnut
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