As the saying goes, “chestnuts are harvested in October”. It is the time for people to queue in front of the stores selling chestnut roasted with sugar. Holding the hot chestnuts, and cutting one open easily with nail, you may smell the strong flavor of chestnuts. They are taste really good. Now it is the season for chestnut on sale, and the best time for those with chestnuts complex. The roasted chestnuts covered by sugar and oil look shining and taste good. One cannot stop eating the delicious chestnuts. The raw chestnuts may reinforce the kidney and cooked ones may strengthen the spleen. It’s a perfect match.

Chestnuts are nuts growing on trees. But different from nuts rich of oil such as walnuts and peanuts, the starch content in chestnuts is high and the chestnuts may be deemed as one of the cereals appeasing one's hunger. Moreover, compared to the cooked rice, the cooked chestnut kernels with the same quantity have lower water content but better satiety, lower glycemic response and longer hunger-enduring time. Chestnuts are rich in carotene, B group vitamins and Vitamin C. The content of Vitamin B2 is as four times as that of rice. The contents of Vitamin C and potassium in cooked chestnuts are high.