Chestnut Food Conflicts and Good Pairings: Can Children and Pregnant Women Eat Them?
Autumn is crisp and clear, and it is once again the perfect season for eating chestnuts. So do you know what chestnuts cannot be eaten with? What are they good to eat with? Can children and pregnant women eat them?
1. What chestnuts cannot be eaten with
1. Chestnut + lamb
Both chestnuts and lamb belong to the very heating category of foods. If eaten at the same time, they can easily cause internal heat. Moreover, neither is easy to digest, so stewing or stir-frying them together is unsuitable, and eating them together may even cause vomiting.
2. Chestnut + tofu
Tofu contains magnesium chloride and calcium sulfate, while chestnuts contain oxalic acid. When these two foods meet, they can form magnesium oxalate and calcium oxalate. These two white precipitates not only affect the body's absorption of calcium, but also easily lead to stone disease. By the same principle, tofu should not be eaten with bamboo shoots, wild rice stems, spinach, and the like.
3. Chestnut + beef
If chestnuts and beef are eaten together, the trace elements in beef will react chemically with the vitamin C in chestnuts, thereby destroying the nutritional value of the vitamin C in chestnuts, and the two form a precipitate that does not easily dissolve in water. This substance is not easily digested and can cause bloating and indigestion.
4. Chestnut + almond
Eating chestnuts and almonds together can cause stomach pain. Almonds contain a relatively high amount of oil and easily cause diarrhea. They are a heating food and are slightly toxic; eating too many can damage the tendons and bones and cause old illnesses to recur. If chestnuts and almonds are eaten together, stomach pain will occur, and friends who already have stomach problems may even have a recurrence of their stomach disease.
2. What chestnuts are good to eat with
1. Chestnut + Chinese cabbage: Combined with Chinese cabbage, chestnuts have the effects of tonifying the spleen, benefiting the kidneys, and stopping bleeding.
2. Chestnut + chicken: Combined with chicken, chestnuts have the effects of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidneys, strengthening the waist, strengthening the tendons, and invigorating the blood, and are suitable for physically weak children to eat for building strength.
3. Chestnut + red dates: Chestnuts are rich in a variety of vitamins and minerals, so they have the effects of nourishing the stomach, boosting qi, tonifying the kidneys, and reducing swelling. Red dates, meanwhile, have the effects of nourishing the blood, calming the spirit and boosting qi, and promoting body fluids. Eating chestnuts paired with red dates has a clear dietary therapeutic effect for people with kidney deficiency, people with sore waist and back pain, and people with frequent urination.
4. Chestnut + job's tears: Both chestnuts and job's tears have both food and medicinal properties, and their contents of carbohydrates, protein, and vitamins are all high. They also contain a variety of amino acids. The fatty substances in job's tears can effectively inhibit the growth of cancer cells, so it has an anti-cancer effect. Eating chestnuts paired with job's tears can achieve the effect of tonifying the kidneys and promoting urination.
3. Can children and pregnant women eat them
1.They can be eaten. The nutritional value of chestnuts is worthy of recognition. They can nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, tonify the kidneys and boost qi, and invigorate the blood and stop bleeding. However, when eating chestnuts, you must never eat too many at one time. Chestnuts are moist and easily cause qi stagnation; eating too many at one time will harm the spleen and stomach. Eat no more than 10 per day. Chestnuts are high in sugar, and pregnant women should be careful to prevent diabetes. Infants and young children should not eat them.
2. Chestnuts are mainly used to nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, tonify the kidneys, and strengthen the tendons. In terms of tonification, they can compare with ginseng, astragalus, and angelica. They can treat nausea, vomiting blood, weakness of the waist and legs, and bloody stool, and are a rare “good medicine.”
3. Chestnuts contain riboflavin and vitamin B2. Eating chestnuts regularly has a significant therapeutic effect on mouth and tongue sores in children that are slow to heal and on oral ulcers in adults. They can promote the normal growth of skin, nails, and hair, improve eyesight, and reduce eye fatigue.
4. The abundant unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and so on contained in chestnuts can prevent and treat diseases such as coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, and osteoporosis. They can enhance the body's immunity, nourish and strengthen the brain, and reduce arthritis symptoms, and are a nutritional delicacy for anti-aging and prolonging life.
5. Chestnuts are rich in vitamin C, which can improve human immunity, protect the health of teeth and gums, and prevent diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Chestnuts can prevent and treat osteoporosis, soreness and weakness of the waist and legs, and pain in the tendons and bones, and have the effect of strengthening the tendons and bones.
6. Chestnuts are rich in carbohydrates, can provide the human body with a relatively large amount of heat energy, help fat metabolism, and have the notable effects of boosting qi and strengthening the spleen and tonifying the stomach and intestines.
4. Dietary taboos for chestnuts
1. The calories of 6 chestnuts are equivalent to 2 liang of rice. They give a strong feeling of fullness and keep you from getting hungry for a long time. They should not be eaten in large amounts, otherwise they will cause indigestion.
2. Infants and young children, people with weak spleen and stomach and poor digestion, or people suffering from rheumatism should not eat them; chestnuts are difficult to digest.
3. People with diabetes should not eat much of them, because they contain relatively many carbohydrates.
4. People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat chestnuts raw. Raw chestnuts are difficult to digest, and cooked ones easily cause qi stagnation; eating too many at one time will harm the spleen and stomach.
5. Chestnuts should not be eaten cold, because chestnuts have a high starch content, and when cold the starch will partially retrograde, causing intestinal flatulence.
6. Sugar-roasted chestnuts are unhygienic and should be eaten sparingly.