Chestnut is a kind of nourishing and curing products, and chestnut is also a kind of sweet and warm dry fruit. It has the functions of nourishing the stomach and spleen, tonifying the kidney and waist, strengthening the muscles and promoting blood circulation, hemostasis and detumescence. But for the baby, when eating chestnut, we should be more careful.
1、 How old can I eat chestnut
It is recommended to eat less after one year old. Adults should also eat less if it is difficult to digest. It's easy to put too much sugar in the fried chestnut sold outside. You can eat it at home.
Chestnut has a high nutritional value. It has the effect of nourishing the stomach and spleen, strengthening the muscles and bones. The baby can take it.
Suggestion: parents of babies should make boiled chestnuts into mud for their babies to eat because their babies are too young and their swallowing and chewing functions are not perfect. Because chestnut can play a certain role in relieving chronic diarrhea, so eat not too much to avoid constipation.
Although chestnut can supplement calcium, it is helpful for the healthy growth of baby's bones. However, because the baby's gastrointestinal development is not complete, and chestnut is rich in cellulose, after the baby eats chestnut, it is easy to cause a sense of fullness, which is easy to cause dyspepsia and gastrointestinal block.
In addition, the baby's throat is not fully developed, and the volume of chestnut is relatively large compared with the baby's throat. If you give the baby chestnut directly, it is very easy to choke the baby's throat and the baby's bronchus. So parents should pay attention when feeding chestnut to their baby, and the baby should not eat more or be careful. But if the baby has oral ulcer, oral ulcer and other symptoms, then appropriate consumption of chestnut. Because chestnut is rich in riboflavin, it is helpful to the wound healing of patients with oral ulcer.
2、 How much chestnut is suitable to eat at one time
Do not exceed 8 at a time, this is to prevent obesity, must be timely and appropriate.
Chestnut belongs to the nut with more starch. So the heat is bigger. For example, the energy of 100 grams of rice is 113 calories, and the energy of 100 grams of chestnut meat is 174 calories, so two chestnuts in calories is equal to three liang of rice. It is suggested that the number of chestnuts should not exceed 8 at a time, and the amount of staple food should be reduced accordingly after eating, so as to prevent obesity.