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Water chestnuts are a prominent ingredient Chinese cuisine . Indigenous to Southeast Asia, they have been cultivated in China since ancient times. The name “water chestnut” comes from the fact that it resembles a chestnut in shape and coloring (it has papery brown skin over white flesh), but the water chestnut is actually not a nut at all—it is an aquatic tuber (rootlike part of a plant) that grows in freshwater marshes. Water chestnuts require a long frost-free growing season (about seven months), which means that they are only grown in semitropical areas, including a few states such as California and Florida. They can be eaten raw or cooked. Water chestnuts are very low in calories. Half a cup of sliced water chestnuts contains about 50 calories. Although the caloric content is low, water chestnuts are highly nutritious and contain fiber , proteins, copper, potassium, manganese, riboflavin, and vitamin B6.
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