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Black rice is a kind of rice used for both medicine and food, belonging to glutinous rice. Black rice is a characteristic variety formed by long-term cultivation of Gramineae rice. There are two kinds of grain types: indica rice and japonica rice, and the grain quality is divided into waxy and non-waxy. Brown rice is black or dark brown. Black rice is dark in color and rich in nutrition, and has the reputation of "black pearl" and "king of rice in the world". There are many places in China, including black rice in western Shaanxi, black glutinous rice in Guizhou and black rice in Hunan.
Black rice is black or dark brown, which is rich in nutrition and has high edible and medicinal value. In addition to cooking porridge, it can also make all kinds of nutritious food and wine, which is known as "black pearl" and "king of rice in the world". Black rice in Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province is the most representative, and it has been called "medicinal rice", "Gong Mi" and "longevity rice" since ancient times.
Modern medicine has proved that black rice has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, invigorating spleen and warming liver, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, benefiting qi and promoting blood circulation, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. Regular consumption of black rice is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of dizziness, anemia, gray hair, eye diseases, soreness of waist and knees, lung dryness and cough, constipation, dysuria, kidney deficiency and edema, loss of appetite, weakness of spleen and stomach, etc. According to nutrition expert Li, the vigor index of black rice is 7.702 1, and the food disease prevention index is 36.05, which has strong health care function.
Inorganic salts such as manganese, zinc and copper in black rice are mostly 1~3 times higher than those in rice. It also contains special ingredients such as vitamin C, chlorophyll, anthocyanin, carotene and cardiac glycoside that rice lacks, so black rice is more nutritious than ordinary rice. Eating more black rice has the functions of appetizing, invigorating the spleen, warming the liver, improving eyesight, promoting blood circulation, smoothing qi and replenishing essence, and has a good nourishing effect on juvenile gray hair, women's postpartum physical weakness, post-illness physical weakness, anemia and kidney deficiency.
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