Efficacy and function of chestnut

Besides starch, it also contains monosaccharide and disaccharide, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid, protein, fat, inorganic salt and other nutrients. ?

Not only can it be eaten raw and cooked, but it can also be processed into canned chestnut chicken, chestnut soup, chocolate, milk powder substitutes, preserved chestnut and other flavor foods, as well as fillings for various cakes. ?

use

The uses of chestnuts can be divided into:

1) fried chestnuts have smaller fruit shape, higher sugar content than protein, less starch and are waxy. Excellent varieties are represented by chestnuts from Yanshan Mountains in Hebei Province.

2) Vegetable chestnut, with large fruit shape, low sugar content, high moisture content and high starch content, is suitable for dishes, cakes, canned food, etc. The representative varieties are chestnuts from Jiangsu, Hubei and other places.

Extended data:

Chestnut has two common storage methods:

(1) Sand storage method: a common temporary storage method in chestnut producing areas, which is simple and easy to operate. After chestnut is picked and temporarily concentrated, it is immediately mixed with wet sand (the ratio of chestnut to sand is 1∶2), stored in a shed and buried, commonly known as "false burial" (sand storage). Attention should be paid to sand storage: under normal circumstances, the humidity of mixed sand should be held by hand and dispersed by hand.

(2) Cold storage method: it is an important storage method for chestnut exported from China. Generally speaking, the storage temperature should be kept at 0 ~ 5℃, the fluctuation should be as small as possible, the relative humidity should be above 80%, and the concentration of carbon dioxide in storage should not be higher than 3%. ?

Castanea mollissima palletizing should be strictly managed in batches, well ventilated and palletized, and the palletizing spacing should be kept above 1m, which is convenient for sample sampling and air circulation.

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