Autumn is the season when Chinese chestnut goes on the market. Chinese chestnut has rich value, sweet and delicious taste, and is very popular. But Chinese chestnut can't be eaten too much. If you eat too much, you will easily get burned and constipated, so you should eat less!
What will happen if you eat more chestnuts? 1. If you eat more chestnuts, you will be constipated
In normal adults, a small amount of gas is retained in the gastrointestinal tract every day, and excessive consumption of chestnut will increase the amount of gas produced by bacterial digestion in the intestinal tract, resulting in gastrointestinal flatulence, dyspepsia, and severe constipation.
Suggestion: chestnut contains high protein and high sugar, which can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, and moderate consumption can play a role in strengthening the stomach. But patients with gastric ulcer and dyspepsia should eat less.
2. The chestnuts are easy to distend
Chestnut is a kind of high starch food, which contains a lot of non digestible carbohydrates, which is different from the fiber structure of rice noodles and vegetables. The stomach can't digest, but it's easy to be digested by intestinal bacteria, which ferments and produces gas in the intestine, so eating more will lead to abdominal distention.
Suggestion: it is difficult to digest raw chestnut when eating more, and it is easy to stagnate Qi when eating cooked chestnut, especially for people with poor gastrointestinal function and digestive system diseases, it is not suitable to eat more, otherwise it will aggravate the disease.
3. If you eat more chestnut, you will get fat easily
The content of chestnut starch is very high, GI is high, the heat of 100g chestnut is 212 calories, which is higher than that of rice. Therefore, chestnut eat more prone to fat, not conducive to maintaining weight.
Suggestion: it's better to treat chestnut as a snack between meals, or make it in meals instead of eating a lot after meals. It is easy to eat too many calories after meals, which will lead to obesity.