Wugu grain health
The ancients thought: "Five grains are for nourishment, five fruits are for help, five livestock are for benefit, and five vegetables are for filling." It means that the diet should be fine in coarse grains, vegetarian and reasonable in combination with food and vegetables to ensure human health and energy. It can be seen that whole grains have always been the main food for people's health. Whole grains are also the main raw materials for making porridge, among which rice is the most commonly used, followed by mung beans, black beans and wheat.
Since ancient times, there has been a theory that "medicine and food are homologous" in our country, and food is supplemented by medicine. According to the saying that "five grains are nourishing", whole grains are the best medicine for nourishing the body and keeping healthy and longevity.
According to the present viewpoint of nutrition, the whole grains are rich in nutrients, including protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamin A, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, potassium, iron, zinc and dietary fiber. Eating whole grains often has a certain preventive effect on anemia, edema, colds, scurvy and other diseases. In addition, it can also improve human immunity. Because the whole grains are rich in starch, they can protect the gastric mucosa and have a good stomach nourishing effect.
Health shicai
Grains mainly include: rice, millet, black rice, coix seed, corn, yellow rice, sorghum rice, barley, wheat, oats, buckwheat, black beans, soybeans, adzuki beans, mung beans and broad beans. Among them, rice is the most common raw material for porridge.
suggestion
Whole grains are beneficial to human health, but the following health points should be paid attention to in daily life.
Grains are best eaten after cooking. In particular, some beans should not be eaten raw, such as soybeans.
People who are allergic to beans should eat bean porridge carefully. Some people have allergic reactions to some beans, and symptoms such as nausea, coma and shock will appear after eating bean porridge, so bean porridge cannot be eaten at will.
Grains Zhou
Materials: 3 tablespoons of brown rice, millet, oats, black glutinous rice and buckwheat, and proper amount of Lycium barbarum.
Appropriate amount of seasoning salt
method of work
1. Wash brown rice, millet, oats, black glutinous rice and buckwheat respectively, soak brown rice, millet and oats for 30 minutes, black glutinous rice for 2 hours and buckwheat for 4 hours.
2. Put the processed materials in the method 1 into a pot, add a proper amount of water, boil with strong fire, cook with low fire until soft, and add Lycium barbarum.
3. Add salt to taste according to personal taste.
Brown rice is rich in carbohydrates, B vitamins and vitamin E, which can improve human immune function. Millet is slightly cold, which can dehumidify, strengthen the stomach, harmonize the spleen and sleep well; Oats are rich in starch and protein, and have the effects of invigorating the spleen and stomach, smoothing the intestine to induce labor, stopping sweating and stopping bleeding; Black glutinous rice is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can warm the fart and stomach and replenish the middle qi; Buckwheat contains cellulose, which can lower qi, benefit intestines, clear heat and detoxify. The porridge made from the above five ingredients and Lycium barbarum has a good tonic effect.
Intimately remind glutinous rice that it is sticky and warm, and it is easy to produce phlegm when eating more, so people with fever, cough, yellow and thick phlegm or people with jaundice, urinary system infection, chest tightness and abdominal distension should not eat more.
Laba porridge
Materials: sorghum rice, rhubarb rice, kidney beans, red beans, red dates, peanuts, chestnut kernels and raisins.
A little seasoning and honey
method of work
1. Dry clean sorghum rice, rhubarb rice, kidney beans, red beans, red dates, peanuts, chestnut kernels and grapes with clear water.
2. Add water to the pot, put all the ingredients into the pot and cook for 3-5 hours on low heat.
3. When eating, you can put a little honey to taste, and the taste is smooth and sweet.
Sorghum rice is warm and has the effects of regulating stomach, strengthening spleen, cooling blood, detoxifying and stopping diarrhea; Dahuang rice is sweet, sticky and flat, and has the effects of regulating stomach, strengthening spleen and blackening hair; Kidney beans can warm the middle and lower the qi, benefit the stomach, benefit the kidney and replenish the yuan; Adzuki bean has the effects of regulating body fluid, promoting urination, relieving bloating, eliminating swelling and relieving cough, and is suitable to be mixed with other cereals. This Laba porridge not only contains nutrients such as starch and cellulose of cereals, but also contains vitamins of fruits, so it is a good health porridge diet.
Intimate reminder that red beans, kidney beans and sorghum rice are not easy to cook. You can steam them in the pot first, and then add them to the rhubarb rice for co-cooking, which is easier to cook.
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Materials: mung bean, adzuki bean, cereal and black sesame.
Seasoning sugar or rock sugar is appropriate.
method of work
1. Put mung beans, adzuki beans, cereal, black sesame seeds and appropriate amount of water into a pot and cook until it is thick.
2. When cooked, add sugar or rock sugar to taste.
Adzuki bean is rich in dietary fiber, which can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, and has certain effects on heart disease, kidney disease and edema. Mung bean has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and is especially suitable for people with symptoms such as coronary heart disease, heatstroke, summer heat and polydipsia, sores and boils, food poisoning, etc. Sesame can stimulate the appetite, strengthen the spleen, facilitate urination, and have good functions of benefiting the liver and tonifying the kidney. The porridge made of adzuki bean, mung bean, cereal and black sesame has good effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, diuresis and relieving summer heat. This porridge can be used for treating body fluid injury caused by fever or polydipsia caused by summer heat.
Taking this porridge often in summer has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, benefiting stomach and nourishing yang. It is recommended to take this porridge on an empty stomach.
Intimate reminder that this porridge is generally not suitable for winter consumption. In addition, due to the diuresis of adzuki bean, people with frequent urination should not eat this porridge.
Coix seed and poria cocos double bean porridge
Materials: adzuki bean, mung bean, coix seed and poria cocos.
method of work
1. Add appropriate amount of water to adzuki beans and mung beans and cook them in a pot 10 minutes until they are half cooked. Turn off the fire, pick up adzuki beans and mung beans and pour out the soup.
2. Take another pot, add Coicis Semen, Poria, half-cooked red beans, mung beans and appropriate amount of water to boil for about 10 minutes until cooked, and put it in a bowl.
Coix seed is one of the best food varieties for medicine and food.
It can promote human metabolism, reduce gastrointestinal burden and enhance renal function. Eating coix seed regularly can also keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne and spots, and improve skin color. This double bean porridge with coix seed and poria cocos is a daily tonic for the elderly and an ideal choice for beauty lovers.
Three-color bean rice porridge
Ingredients: red bean, black bean, mung bean, a little glutinous rice.
method of work
1. Wash adzuki beans, mung beans, black beans and glutinous rice respectively and soak them in water for at least 2 hours.
2. Put the adzuki beans, black beans and appropriate amount of water into the pot first, and slow down with low heat.
Cook slowly.
3. Take another pot, add mung beans, glutinous rice and appropriate amount of water, and cook with low heat until the porridge is thick and crisp.
4. Boiled adzuki beans and black beans are poured into mung bean glutinous rice porridge and boiled for 20 minutes.
This porridge contains various nutrients of whole grains, including protein, fat, dietary fiber, soybean isoflavone, various amino acids, vitamins and minerals such as iron, calcium and phosphorus, which can not only provide nutrients for the body, but also have the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, dispersing blood and relieving swelling, and can relieve discomfort such as heatstroke and headache in summer.
Healthy eight-treasure porridge
Material A: Half a bowl of rice, 2 tablespoons of Coix seed, lotus seed, Gordon Euryale seed, longan, pea and white lentil.
B: 2 tablespoons each of Chinese yam, lily and jujube.
Appropriate amount of seasoning sugar
method of work
1. All materials were washed, and material A was soaked in clear water for 2 hours.
2. put material a into a pot, add clean water and boil it with high fire.
3. Add material B, simmer for 30 minutes on low heat, and add sugar to taste when taking out.
This healthy eight-treasure porridge is rich in carbohydrates, protein, fat, cellulose, vitamins, amino acids and minerals, and also contains more calories, which has a good tonic effect on human body. Eating this porridge regularly can keep you healthy and improve your immune function.
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