Nuts & Seeds
🇬🇧 CoFID 2021 · 14-813
✦ Sweet caramelised starch
✦ Very low fat
✦ Potassium and folate
✦ Vitamin C (partially retained)
Roasted chestnuts are the classic winter street food — sweet, warm, and starchy. Roasting caramelises their natural sugars and makes the starch more digestible. They remain low in fat and high in carbohydrate compared to all other nuts, providing potassium, folate, and vitamin C (though some C is lost in roasting).
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Preparation note
Score and roast at 200°C for 20-25 minutes or in a dedicated chestnut pan over an open fire. Peel while warm — both shell and inner skin — as they become harder to remove when cold.
Sources:
CoFID 2021
Where Chestnuts, roasted (no added fat/salt) Stands Out
Macronutrients per 100g
870
kJ
Energy
2.00
g
Protein
36.6
g
Carbs
4.10
g
Fibre
2.70
g
Fat
10.6
g
Sugars
Vitamins & Minerals
| Nutrient | Per 100g | % Daily Value* | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iodine | 0.000 µg | 0% | |
| Polyunsaturated fat (PUFA) | 1.20 g | — | |
| Monounsaturated fat | 1.10 g | — | |
| Sucrose | 4.40 g | — | |
| Glucose (dextrose) | 3.20 g | — | |
| Fructose | 3.00 g | — | |
| Glutamic acid | 0.360 g | — | |
| Aspartic acid | 0.200 g | — | |
| Leucine | 0.169 g | — | |
| Arginine | 0.160 g | — | |
| Valine | 0.116 g | — | |
| Serine | 0.100 g | — | |
| Proline | 0.100 g | — | |
| Alanine | 0.100 g | — | |
| Phenylalanine | 0.100 g | — | |
| Isoleucine | 0.094 g | — | |
| Glycine | 0.090 g | — | |
| Tyrosine | 0.070 g | — | |
| Threonine | 0.066 g | — | |
| Lysine | 0.066 g | — | |
| Histidine | 0.050 g | — | |
| Methionine | 0.042 g | — | |
| Cysteine | 0.040 g | — | |
| Tryptophan | 0.028 g | — | |
| Plant sterols (total) | 24.0 mg | — | |
| Omega-6 (Linoleic acid) | 1.10 g | — | |
| Omega-3 (Alpha-linolenic acid) | 0.100 g | — |
* % Daily Value based on EU Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs). — indicates no EU NRV established.
Primary data source for this entry:
McCance & Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID 2021), Public Health England. Source record tag: CoFID 2021.
All values are per 100g fresh weight unless stated.
% Daily Values based on EU Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) per Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011.
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