Old people like millet best and regard it as the best tonic. Millet is a granular grain after peeling millet, which has always been known as "whole grains, millet first". Sick old people often use millet to nourish their bodies. Chinese medicine believes that millet benefits the five internal organs, thickens the stomach, tonifies the body fluid and strengthens the bones and muscles. A famous doctor in Qing Dynasty said: Xiaomi is the most educated person. Rice oil is better than ginseng soup when cooking rice porridge. It can be seen that it is reasonable for long-lived old people to like rice.
Millet porridge is healthy food. Can be cooked separately, or you can add jujube, red beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds, lilies and so on. , make different flavors of nutrients. Millet can be made into cakes by grinding into powder, which is delicious. Millet bud, like malt, contains a lot of enzymes, which is a traditional Chinese medicine and has the function of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion. Millet porridge has a calming effect.
2. Black rice
Black rice has the reputation of "the king of rice in the world". Black rice is rich in nutrition: 1 1.3g 100g protein content is 6.8% higher than that of ordinary rice; Fat 2.7 grams is higher than rice 1.9 times; Black rice is rich in vitamin B 1, B2 and trace elements such as iron, zinc and selenium. In addition, black rice also contains 16 kinds of amino acids needed by human body, which is higher than that of rice 15.9%. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black rice is sweet and flat, nourishing yin and blood, benefiting the liver and improving eyesight. Bushen Jianpi, Shugan Huoxue and other effects. Good governance of yin deficiency of liver and kidney, deficiency of essence and blood, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, deficiency of yin and blood of women, irregular menstruation and weakness of middle-aged and elderly people.
Black rice has anti-cancer effect and can also reduce the mortality of cerebral thrombosis and rheumatic heart disease. In addition, black rice also has a good effect on anemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, female menopause syndrome and other diseases. Note: Black rice skin contains a lot of melanin, which is the essence of black rice, so black fans can't wash it often, just wash it gently.
3. Corn
Corn, alias corn, corn, pearl jade, etc. Together with rice and wheat, it is called the three major crops in the world, and it is recognized as the "golden crop" in the world, and it is also the staple food of the long-lived elderly. The American Medical Association made a survey and found that none of the native Indians in the United States had hypertension and arteriosclerosis. I used to eat old corn. Medical scientists have found that old corn contains a lot of lecithin, linoleic acid, grain alcohol and vitamin E, so it is not easy to suffer from hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Judging from the physique of the long-lived elderly, they seldom have hypertension and arteriosclerosis, which is closely related to their eating corn as their staple food.
Modern research has confirmed that corn is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, especially linoleic acid, with a content of more than 60%. Synergistic effect with vitamin E in corn germ can reduce blood cholesterol concentration and prevent it from depositing on blood vessel wall. Therefore, corn has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.