If some miscellaneous grains, vegetables or foods with the same origin of medicine and food are mixed into rice, the nutritional value of rice will be improved, and it can also play a role in preventing and treating diseases.
1. Mung bean rice
Cool summer products. Because mung bean is cool and sweet, it has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis to reduce swelling, moistening throat to quench thirst, improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure, and can prevent and treat symptoms such as fever, thirst, irritability and dysuria caused by heatstroke.
2. Coix seed
Suitable for people with spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite and chronic diarrhea. Because the protein content of coix seed is as high as 17.6% ~ 18.7% (rice is 7% ~ 8%), the starch contained is easily soluble in water and easy to digest and absorb.
3. Red dates and glutinous rice
Nourishing blood and tonifying deficiency. Jujube is not only rich in sugar (65.9%), but also rich in vitamin C, which is the first line of defense to prevent cancer cells from growing in the body. Therefore, taking it regularly is good for your health.
4. Sweet potato rice
Sweet potato is rich in nutrition and has the functions of "tonifying deficiency and benefiting qi, strengthening spleen and stomach, and strengthening kidney deficiency". Sweet potato contains more starch and cellulose. After eating, it can absorb a lot of water in the intestine and increase the volume of feces, which can not only prevent constipation and reduce the occurrence of intestinal cancer, but also help prevent the formation of cholesterol in the blood and prevent coronary heart disease.
5. Oat rice
Health care treasures for the elderly. Oats have the functions of lowering cholesterol, regulating triglycerides and reducing blood viscosity. Oats contain more crude fiber and unsaturated fatty acids, which can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and is good for diabetics to lose weight and constipation.
6. Taro rice
It is suitable for gastrointestinal diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis and the elderly and children. Because taro is soft and easy to digest, it is beneficial to relax the stomach, detoxify and disperse the knot. Therefore, dry stool and nameless swelling can be eaten. However, taro contains more starch and has the disadvantage of flatulence, so we should pay attention to the right amount.
Often eat black rice to fight aging.
The outer cortex of black rice contains anthocyanins, which has a strong anti-aging effect. Studies show that the darker the color of rice, the more obvious the anti-aging effect of epidermal pigment. Therefore, the function of black rice pigment is the strongest among all kinds of rice. In addition, this pigment is also rich in flavonoids active substances, which is five times that of white rice, and plays a great role in preventing arteriosclerosis.
In addition, black rice is rich in dietary fiber, and the digestion speed of starch is slow, and the glycemic index is 55 (87 for white rice). Therefore, eating black rice will not cause violent fluctuations in blood sugar like eating white rice. Minerals such as potassium and magnesium in black rice are also beneficial to control blood pressure and reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Diabetic patients and patients with cardiovascular diseases can eat black rice as part of their diet.
In order to preserve more nutrition, black rice is often eaten directly in the form of "brown rice" after hulling. This kind of coarse black rice is best for cooking porridge. When cooking porridge, in order to make it soft quickly, it is best to soak it in advance so that it can fully absorb water. In order to prevent the pigment contained in black rice from dissolving in water during soaking, you can gently rinse it with cold water before soaking, but don't rub it; The water used for soaking rice should be cooked with rice, and it should not be poured out, and the nutrients in it should be retained.
Corn makes your eyes more beautiful.
Many people think that corn is a vegetable. In fact, corn is not a vegetable, because it contains a lot of starch and has higher calories than ordinary vegetables. Therefore, in nutrition, corn is listed as a staple food.
Chinese medicine believes that corn is flat and sweet, and has the functions of appetizing, strengthening the spleen, removing dampness and diuresis, and is mainly used for diarrhea, indigestion and edema. According to nutritional analysis, corn contains sugar, protein, carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and zinc. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease caused by eye aging, which can lead to visual impairment in severe cases. Many epidemiological studies have found that lutein and zeaxanthin can prevent age-related macular degeneration.
Studies in the American medical community have proved that taking higher amounts of lutein and zeaxanthin can reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration by 43%. Corn contains lutein and zeaxanthin, especially the latter is rich, so corn can be said to be an excellent supplementary food to fight eye aging.
Don't wash too much rice for too long.
Some people like to wash rice over and over again, and they are always worried that it will not be cleaned, and some even soak rice for hours. In fact, these practices are not worth the loss. Rice contains some water-soluble vitamins and inorganic salts, a large part of which exists in the outer layer of rice grains. Excessive elutriation or rubbing and excessive stirring will cause a large loss of nutrients on the surface of rice grains. Rice should not be soaked for a long time. If soaked for a long time before elutriation, some inorganic salts and soluble vitamins in rice grains will be dissolved in water, and the loss will be greater after elutriation. In the process of rice washing, the loss rate of thiamine can reach 40% ~ 60%, the loss rate of riboflavin and nicotinic acid can reach 23% ~ 25%, and protein, fat and sugar are also lost to varying degrees. In addition, rice will be crushed if soaked for a long time.