A tame chestnut (also #gezond ) you can eat and a regular #kastanje I'm not. Did you know they're not related to each other when they look very alike? They contain good #voedingsstoffen and the tame chestnut can also be prepared or eaten raw. Be sure to take care of any worms and bugs. #voeding #food #eten #bouwstoffen

How to recognize a tame chestnut

Both are very similar but there are a number of differences to which you can recognize if you have a tame chestnut. You can tell the difference from the tree and the chestnut itself. Both trees have leaves similar to that of a hand. The wild chestnut tree can be recognized by its large leaves. The tame chestnut tree has more elongated leaves resembling fingers. The fingers of the leaf of the wild chestnut tree are somewhat larger and thicker. Furthermore, there is a difference between the bolster. The bolster is where the chestnuts are in. Those of the tame chestnut have more small/thinner spines. The wild chestnut does not have that that has thicker spines but less. Both can be very poking yet seem to poke the smaller lake because they are more against each other. You're not gonna get there soon to open it up and get the fruits out. In the bolster of a wild chestnut you will find 1 large chestnut. In the bolster of a tame chestnut you usually find 3 smaller chestnut.
The fruit of the wild chestnut is less well hidden in the bolster than that of the tame chestnut. The reason is perhaps because the tame chestnut is edible and therefore more wanted. The tree must therefore protect it as best as possible and for that reason it has better spines than the wild chestnut tree. The tame chestnut are smaller and at the top have a tip with a feathers. The wild chestnut is nicely even round.

Beech nuts

Now that you're reading this, you'll think the article is about chestnuts and there's a paragraph with beech nuts. Everyone knows a big difference between chestnut and tame chestnut. The latter you can namely eat the other not. Then why the paragraph with beech nuts? The tame chestnut can indeed be eaten and this is because it is family of the beech. The wild chestnut or horse chestnut is not this and is related to the chestnut.

The preparation of tame chestnut

The tame edible chestnut is very healthy and contains less calories other nuts. One hundred grams of tame chestnuts yields about 185 kilocalories. In addition, it contains a lot of B vitamins, vitamin E, potassium, zinc and folic acid. You can eat the chestnut raw (peel off). You can also puff them in the pan over low heat with a lump of butter. You can also boil them briefly in water or put them in the oven. If you put them in the oven you can do this at 200 degrees Celsius and make a cross in the chestnut. You can easily remove the peel from it in this way. You can also put the pieces through the yogurt or through the cake batter.

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