How to peel fresh walnut kernels?

We all know that walnut kernels have very high nutritional value and medicinal value. If you eat them regularly, they can not only help to improve your brain, but also beautify your skin, blacken your hair and nourish your kidneys. However, some people do not like to eat the brown skin of walnut kernels, as they feel it has a bitter and astringent taste, and children in particular are more resistant to it. So, is there any way to quickly remove the skin of fresh walnut kernels?

Nutritional value of walnut kernels

Walnuts can reduce the intestinal absorption of cholesterol and are beneficial to patients with arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease. Walnuts have the effect of warming the lungs, relieving asthma and preventing cell aging. They can also effectively improve memory, delay aging and moisturize the skin. Walnut leaves contain antibiotics, so they also have bactericidal effects.

How to peel walnut kernels:

1. The easiest way is to soak the walnut meat in water, and then pick it with a bamboo stick, so that the skin can be easily peeled off. If you add some salt to the boiling water, the effect will be better.

2. Place the walnuts in a pot and steam them over high heat for 10 minutes. Immediately soak them in cold water for 3 minutes. Take them out and peel them one by one to get complete kernels. Then blanch the kernels in boiling water for 4 minutes. Gently pinch them with your hands and the skin will fall off.

Precautions for eating walnut kernels:

It should be noted that the appropriate amount of walnuts to eat is 5-6 per day, about 20-30 grams of walnut kernels.

Contraindications: People with diarrhea, yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire; people with phlegm-heat cough, loose stools and diarrhea, and those with excessive internal heat and heavy phlegm and dampness should not take it.

Suitable for the crowd: General people can eat it. It is suitable for patients with kidney deficiency, lung deficiency, neurasthenia, insufficient qi and blood, and cancer; it is especially suitable for mental workers and teenagers.

If you really cannot eat the brown skin of the walnut kernel, you can use the above method to quickly peel it, but this brown skin also has a good nourishing effect, so it is recommended to keep this skin and eat it with the walnut kernel. At the same time, it should be noted that although walnuts are good, the daily consumption should not be too large. A maximum of five or six a day will be enough.