Introducing the chestnut! Urgent ~~~~~~~

Chestnut is China's unique species of fine dry fruit trees, the fruit is a variety of famous dry fruit, woody food. Chestnut is one of the earliest human cultivation of economic tree species, China has a long history of cultivation of chestnut. In the excavation of Xi'an half slope village site, found a large number of chestnut, hazelnut, pine and park tree fruit, indicating that as far back as 6000 years ago, our ancestors used the wild chestnut fruit as food. Chestnut in China's planting a wide range of north to Liaoning Province, Fengcheng County and Hebei Province, Qinglong County, south to Hainan Island, west of Shaanxi, east to the coastal provinces, throughout the 21 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) are, in the Yellow River Basin of North China and the Yangtze River Basin part of the planting area is larger, and North China Yanshan Mountain Range area is the famous chestnut production area. China's chestnut production and quality, the world's edible chestnut in the first place. Chestnut fruit shape exquisite beautiful, sweet and delicious flavor. Over the years, chestnut as China's traditional export commodities, exported to Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Canada, the United States and other more than 20 countries and China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. China's chestnut origin, species distribution Chestnut in China is widely distributed geographically, there are more than twenty provinces (districts, municipalities) cultivation, of which the main producing areas are Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hebei, Anhui, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Guangxi, Beijing and other provinces (districts, municipalities). According to incomplete statistics, China's current chestnut planted area of 20 million mu, in the regional layout has formed North China, the Yangtze River Basin, Southwest, Northwest, Northeast and other unique varieties of groups and their production areas. China's chestnut varieties are extremely rich in resources, can be broadly divided into southern chestnut and northern chestnut.　Northern chestnut: its *** with the characteristics of the fruit shape is small (single fruit average weight of 8 grams or so), glutinous flesh, high sugar content (generally around 20%), low starch content, high protein content, shiny skin, astringent skin easy to peel. Suitable for sugar fried tickets. Mainly distributed in the north China provinces of Yanshan and Taihang Mountains, including Hebei, Beijing, Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu part of the region. Adapted to the cool, dry climate.　Southern chestnut: its *** with the characteristics of the fruit shape (single fruit average weight of more than 12 grams, the largest up to 25 grams), the general starch content is high, low sugar content, the meat is stalked, more suitable for vegetable chestnut. Distributed in my day in the Yangtze River basin in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, southern Henan and other places. Adapt to high temperature and rainy conditions, about 150 varieties, accounting for more than half of the national chestnut varieties. In addition, China's Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places are mostly live breeding, chestnut fruit size, low sugar content, high starch content, meat powdery, adapted to high temperature and humidity of the climate characteristics, and therefore also attributed to the southern chestnut.　Tianjin sweet chestnut: China's best and most representative chestnut varieties, usually known as the "Tianjin sweet chestnut" is mainly produced in Hebei, China's Qianxi County, Zunhua County, Qinglong County, Xinglong County, Kancheng County and other places. Because of the 50's Yanshan Mountains produced chestnuts are exported through the Tianjin port and get this name. Yanshan Mountain Range chestnuts are famous in the world for their bright color, high sugar content, sweetness and aroma, and aromatic, sweet and glutinous characteristics. As early as in the 19th century, Yanshan Mountain chestnuts were exported to Japan; nowadays, the Chinese Yanshan Mountain chestnuts sold in Japan are also expensive green food. Yanshan Mountains produced chestnut has a high nutritional value, it is determined that the Jingdong Yanshan chestnut kernel contains protein, fat, starch, sugar, and contains a variety of vitamins. Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen in his medical masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica" said that eating chestnuts can benefit the blood, stomach, kidney, liver and spleen; raw food and metallurgical treatment of lumbar and leg pain, the effect of relaxation of the tendons and collaterals. Chestnut fruit of many ways to eat, in addition to raw food, can also be cooked, can also be processed into canned chestnut chicken, chestnut soup, chocolate, milk powder, chestnut preserves and other flavorful foods, as well as a variety of pastries filling. The most common way to eat chestnuts is fried in sugar. Sugar fried chestnuts smell fragrant, sweet and delicious, it contains a lot of soluble sugar, easy to be absorbed by the human body, is a traditional fruit for young and old. Chestnuts are deciduous trees of the family Crustacea, chestnuts have high nutritional value, sweet and aromatic, containing starch 51-60%, protein 5.7-10.7%, fat 2-7.4%, vitamins A, B1, B2, C and calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals, commonly used in food processing, cooking banquets and side dishes. Chestnut raw food, fried food are suitable, sugar fried chestnuts, mixed with roasted chicken, spray flavor, can be ground powder, can also be made into a variety of dishes, pastries, canned food and so on. Chestnut storage freshness, can extend the market supply time. Chestnuts are mostly produced in mountain slopes, foreign countries called "health food", belonging to the stomach and kidney, prolonging the life of the top fruit. Chestnut is a treasure of the whole body, hard material, texture straight, anticorrosive and moisture resistance, is the manufacture of military, car, ship, furniture and other good materials; branches and leaves, bark, thorn buds are rich in tannins, can be extracted from the baked gum; flower is a very good source of dense. All parts of the chestnut can be used as medicine, chestnut can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness and heat, husk treatment of regurgitation called astringent, bark decoction to wash dengtoxin, the root of the treatment of partial kidney gas and other diseases.