Important notes should not be overlooked when eating chestnuts for the best benefit

The improper use of chestnuts can sometimes turn this seed into an incredibly scary health hazard.

In winter, we often have the habit of eating roasted chestnuts. This is a delicious snack that anyone likes extremely, especially when it gets cold. When the cold winter winds blew over and were seated at the corner of the sidewalk, the mouth that was blowing and peeling off the roasted chestnuts to eat was nothing more wonderful.

Chestnuts have sweet taste, warmth goes into 3 periods, taste and kidney.

According to former colonel, general physician Bui Hong Minh (Vice Chairman of Ba Dinh Oriental Medicine Association, Hanoi), chestnuts have sweet taste, warmness goes into 3 periods, taste and kidney. It has the function of supplementing kidneys with essential benefits, strengthening the tendons, strengthening digestive function, nourishing the stomach, stopping bleeding, treating spleen diarrhea, damaged or damaged back of knee due to kidney damage . This is a medicine quarter in Oriental medicine, is gold food if used properly.

However, just like any kind of food, it's not good to use too much, so is chestnut.

According to the medical doctor Bui Hong Minh, although chestnuts are delicious, not everyone can use them freely.If using too much chestnut for a while, it can cause heat and heat in the body .

Although chestnuts are delicious, not everyone can use them freely.

"The chestnuts are mostly starch-based, seemingly free of fiber, so they are more likely to become constipated. For those with poor digestive problems, it is important to pay attention, so eat limited because otherwise you will do it." injury , " said medical doctor Bui Hong Minh. Chestnut nuts are high in starch, so eat only in snacks at 9am or 15pm. Eating chestnuts right after meals will interfere with digestive system activity.

People with stomach illness also need to limit eating chestnuts. Overeating will produce more stomach acid, increase the burden on the stomach, thereby leading to stomach bleeding so the case like a girl in China is not as rare as many people think. People with colds have not gone, patients with malaria and dysentery, women after birth should not eat more chestnuts, should eat no more than 10 big chestnuts to avoid constipation.

People with stomach problems need to limit eating chestnuts.

In addition, chestnuts are foods that are at risk of mold damage because in the form of granules, drying is not guaranteed over time. According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Dang (Former Director of Department of Food Safety and Hygiene), chestnuts as well as many other grains are at risk of extremely high damage.

Accordingly, chestnuts are in the dried fruit group, when moldy can cause Afflatoxin poisoning , causing liver cancer. Dried fruits, cereals, rotten grapes, wine, coffee, some kinds of animal meat contaminated with Ochratoxin cause kidney and liver cancer.

Being impure can make you load moldy chestnuts. It is therefore important to know whether or not chestnuts are usable . Therefore, the expert stressed, before buying or eating chestnuts, carefully selected. When peeling chestnuts if you see the color inside changes, you need to quit immediately. When eating chestnuts, if you do not see the fat, you should leave immediately. If you buy chestnuts but haven't used them all, put them in a box or tray, put them in the freezer if you want to leave for more than 10 days.