Description
Latin Name:Eleocharis Dulcis
Parts used: Seed
Loss on drying: ≤5%
Heavy metals: <10ppm
As: <1ppm
Pb: <3ppm
Ratio: 4:1~20:1 ; Juice Powder
Apperance:Light Yellow Powder
Description:
Water chestnuts can also be dried and made into powder form and is known as water chestnut flour or starch. The flour (like corn starch) is often used as thickener in Chinese cooking, and sometimes for use in making puddings or steamed cakes.
They are mainly used in food supplement, nutrition supplement, dietary supplement.
Water Chestnut is applied in pharmaceutical field, it is mainly used as pharmaceutical materail to treat asthenia of kidney, impotence, spermatorrhea, prospermia, cold extremities, acroanesthesia or convulsion, etc.