How to peel the water chestnut

Gorgon fruit is a plant with a very thick skin. This skin is very hard and has low nutritional value, making it unsuitable for consumption. Therefore, the skin needs to be removed before eating. Gorgon fruit itself has high nutritional value and has the effect of nourishing the kidney and replenishing qi. It is very helpful for improving male sexual function. Many people don’t know how to peel the Gorgon fruit before eating it. Here we will teach you how to peel the Gorgon fruit.

Is it better to peel or not peel the gorgon fruit?

Good peeling

The skin of Gorgon fruit is hard and astringent, with low nutritional value, making it unsuitable for consumption and having no edible value, so it is better to peel the Gorgon fruit. Gorgon fruit is rich in nutrients, which can provide the body with the necessary nutrients. It has the effects of nourishing the kidney, strengthening the spleen, and stopping diarrhea. It has a good effect on symptoms such as spermatorrhea, diarrhea, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, and leucorrhea. It is known as the "ginseng in water".

Red water chestnut is essentially mature water chestnut that has not been peeled and dried. The skin of water chestnut is hard and astringent, which makes it unsuitable for consumption and has no edible value. Therefore, the skin must be peeled off when eating red water chestnut. For ordinary household use, you can buy a small finger sleeve specifically for peeling. There are now small finger gloves on the market that are specifically used to peel water chestnuts. They are inexpensive, convenient and practical. Wear them on your fingers, and use the pointed end to lightly scratch the shell. The shell will be peeled off and the water chestnuts will naturally fall off. Before cooking red water chestnuts, they must be soaked in water first and cannot be put into boiling water, otherwise they will be difficult to cook.

If growers need to peel a large amount of skin, they can use machine peeling. The water chestnut peeling machine generally adopts a rotary peeling method, which can quickly separate the shell and the meat without damaging the water chestnut meat. It is small in size, simple to operate, and saves a lot of processing time, making it suitable for home processing operations.

However, machine peeling can easily crush the water chestnuts, and the processed water chestnuts are of poor quality and low price, so some growers still use the traditional peeling method. The traditional method is to spread the fruit on the threshing floor, beat it continuously with a wooden pestle to make the shell crack and break, then put it into a basket and step on it to let the film on the outside of the seed fall off naturally, crack out the seed, wash it with water and dry it to get the edible water chestnut.