What is the nutritional value of lotus root starch? What is the function of lotus root starch?

Lotus root starch is a long-standing traditional nourishing food and a famous product in Hangzhou. It is mainly composed of West Lake lotus root starch and Sancun lotus root starch, which are ground together with dried lotus root to make instant food. It can be eaten after simple eating. It tastes delicious and is suitable for all ages. Lotus root powder contains a lot of iron and reducing sugar, which is easily oxidized when it comes into contact with air, making the color of the powder change from white to red. Other starches (such as sweet potato, potato, water chestnut, kudzu root, etc. ) there is no such change, all are pure white or yellowish; If this kind of starch is rose red, it is caused by adding food pigment.

nutritive value

1. Lotus root powder contains mucin and dietary fiber, which can be combined with cholate in human body, cholesterol and triglyceride in food, so that it can be excreted from feces, thus reducing the absorption of lipids.

2. Lotus root starch contains tannin, which has a certain effect of invigorating spleen and stopping diarrhea, can stimulate appetite, promote digestion, stimulate appetite, strengthen the body, and is conducive to the recovery of people with poor appetite;

3. Lotus root powder is rich in trace elements such as iron and calcium, and also rich in plant protein, vitamins and starch, which has obvious effects of invigorating qi and blood and enhancing human immunity.

Applicable people

The general population can eat it.

1. It is especially suitable for people of all ages, women and children and the infirm. It is especially suitable for patients with high fever, hematemesis, hypertension, liver disease, anorexia, iron deficiency anemia and malnutrition.

2. Diabetic patients should choose sugar-free lotus root starch.

Edible effect

Lotus root is sweet, flat and raw, which can cure heat thirst, remove blood stasis and promote granulation;

Cooked lotus root is warm and sweet, beneficial to the stomach and spleen, nourishing blood and tonifying, and stopping diarrhea.

Indications: cough due to lung heat, dysphoria and thirst, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, loss of appetite and various blood syndromes.