I think noodles that northerners like to eat are more nourishing than rice congee that southerners like to drink. First of all, rice congee is called rice congee in the south, but it is actually called rice porridge in the north. It's just that southerners cook rice more carefully, while northerners don't pay attention to boiled rice in this respect, and they can eat it after cooking. Rice congee cooked by southerners is naturally more suitable for nourishing the stomach than the rice porridge eaten by northerners.

The reason is that after cooking for a long time, rice is more easily absorbed by human intestines, which slows down the pressure of gastrointestinal digestion. For people who have recovered from a long illness, due to poor gastrointestinal function, the initial diet is generally based on liquid food, so eating porridge naturally becomes the best choice for these people, which also makes people mistakenly think that drinking porridge is nourishing the stomach.

Rice congee didn't really have the effect of nourishing the stomach. When he said that porridge can nourish the stomach, he didn't mean rice congee. Rice congee has a single nutrition, and its long-term diet of rice congee may even make people's nutrition intake incomplete, which can neither nourish the stomach nor enhance immunity. The porridge that can nourish the stomach should be the porridge formed by a variety of ingredients and rice-flour foods, such as pumpkin porridge and jujube porridge, which is better than rice congee.

Besides noodles, there is nothing wrong with this sentence, "the first thing to nourish the stomach is noodles." Noodles are rich in water and easy to digest, which can really nourish the stomach. People who have stomach problems are often accompanied by problems such as gastric ulcer and acid reflux. Noodles are alkaline foods, which help to neutralize stomach acid and relieve acid reflux.

It should be understood that noodles can nourish the stomach, but not cure stomach diseases, and eating noodles is required. People in the north eat noodles with meat and pungent spices as auxiliary dishes, such as onion, ginger and garlic. Familiar noodles, such as pork liver noodles, mutton noodles, beef noodles, etc., are not good.

Noodles themselves are light food, and clear soup noodles are easier to digest if they are boiled. If they are accompanied by too many greasy side dishes or irritating foods, not only people with stomach problems are not suitable for eating, but even ordinary people are not suitable for eating too much.

By contrast, noodles are naturally better than rice congee in terms of the effect of nourishing the stomach.