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Sweet chestnut, Castanea sativa

Sweet chestnut The seed can be eaten raw or cooked. A somewhat astringent taste raw, it improves considerably when cooked and is delicious baked with a floury texture and a flavour rather like sweet potatoes. The seed is rich in carbohydrates, it can be dried, then ground and used as a flour in breads, puddings, as a thickener in soups etc.

The roasted seed can be used as a coffee substitute.

A sugar can be extracted from the seed.

The meal of the seed has been used as a source of starch and also for whitening linen cloth.

A hair shampoo is made from the leaves and the skins of the fruits. It imparts a golden gleam to the hair.

The wood is hard, strong and light. The young growing wood is very durable, though older wood becomes brittle and liable to crack. It is used for carpentry, turnery, props, basketry, fence posts etc. Also a very good fuel.