Is porridge soup soaked in rice nourishing the stomach or hurting the stomach?
Studies have shown that when people eat, they will first digest it in their mouths. Hard teeth are like a clever "crusher", which cuts large pieces of food into small particles, while salivary glands keep secreting saliva and tongue keeps stirring, so that food and saliva are fully mixed. Amylase in saliva can decompose starch into sweet and refreshing maltose, which is convenient for further digestion and absorption in gastrointestinal tract. At the same time, food will stimulate the taste nerve of the tongue and transmit it to the brain reflexively, so that the brain sends out a message to "inform" the stomach, intestine, pancreas and other parts to be ready to accept food. After receiving the "command", the stomach, intestine and pancreatic juice are secreted one after another, and the gastrointestinal peristalsis is enhanced, thus accelerating the digestion and absorption of food nutrition by the gastrointestinal tract.
As the saying goes, porridge nourishes the stomach, and the spleen and stomach of traditional Chinese medicine should pay attention to one thing: porridge should not be overheated, and porridge with too high temperature will harm the gastric mucosa. In addition, make sure that you are drinking real "porridge", not instant rice. Qualified stomach-nourishing porridge is sticky, and rice grains will not sink under water, but will be evenly dispersed by water. Moreover, some porridge is not strictly porridge, rice is rice, and water is water. The two have not yet merged, so they can only be called soaked rice. Porridge nourishes the stomach, and soaking in rice hurts the stomach.
In addition, it is pointed out that porridge is helpful for digestion, because the stomach basically does not need to do too much squeezing work. Rice soaked in water is not chewed, and water dilutes gastric acid, so rice grains are not easy to digest. This has become a heavy burden for people with weak stomach function. Add water to soak rice, and the soup for soaking rice is like porridge. There is water in it, and many people don't chew slowly like rice, just chew it a few times and eat it.