Yes, eight-treasure porridge contains a lot of starch and sugar. Starch will be converted into maltose in human body. If you can't consume it, it will turn into fat accumulation in the human body, thus getting fat.

Eight-treasure porridge, also known as Laba porridge and Buddha porridge, is a traditional holiday food of Han nationality. It is a kind of porridge cooked with various ingredients in Laba Festival. "Old Wulin Stories" written by China literati in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "Cooking porridge with walnuts, pine nuts, milk, persimmons and chestnuts is called Laba porridge. Eight-treasure porridge has the effects of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, resolving food stagnation and losing weight, benefiting qi and calming the nerves. It can be used for dietotherapy of obesity and neurasthenia, and can also be used as daily health food.