What can't be eaten with water chestnuts?

Water chestnut is an aquatic plant and a common food that people like to eat the most. It is dark red in appearance and white in flesh. It can be eaten directly after removing the shell or after it is eaten. It is delicious and nutritious. However, although water chestnut is delicious, there are some taboos. There are many foods that cannot be eaten with it, otherwise it will be harmful to the body. The following editor will introduce them to you in detail.

What can't be eaten with

1. Spironolactone

Spironolactone is a common drug, which cannot be taken with water chestnuts because the function of this drug is to retain potassium and excrete it, which will cause potassium salts to accumulate in the body. Water chestnuts are a high-potassium food. If it is taken with Spironolactone, it will cause hyperkalemia, which in severe cases can cause people to have adverse symptoms such as arrhythmia and weakened heart function.

2. Cold ingredients

Water chestnuts cannot be eaten together with cold ingredients, because water chestnuts themselves are a particularly cold ingredient. Eating them together with cold ingredients will aggravate the cold poison in the body and cause people to have abdominal pain, diarrhea or stomach cold and other symptoms. Seafood, cucumbers and bitter gourds in our daily life are all cold ingredients and are not suitable to be eaten with water chestnuts.

3. Antihypertensive drugs

People are not suitable to eat water chestnuts while taking antihypertensive drugs, because water chestnuts as a food contain a large amount of antihypertensive ingredients. If it is eaten together with antihypertensive drugs, the antihypertensive effect of the drugs will increase and may cause hypotension. In addition, people with low blood pressure in life are not suitable to eat water chestnuts, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms of low blood pressure.

Who can't eat water chestnuts?

In addition to the above ingredients that cannot be eaten with water chestnuts, people with weak digestion, weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea and loose stools are not suitable for eating water chestnuts. In addition, those with blood stasis and heart failure should not eat water chestnuts, otherwise it will increase the burden on the heart and be detrimental to health.