The way to eat Shagumi is usually cooked into Shagumi sugar water. Hot days, drink a bowl of cool Shagumi bran water, both thirst, but also heat, can play the effect of herbal tea. Cold days, drink a cup of hot Shagumi sugar water with ginger, cold air suddenly canceled, really comfortable, like a tonic of the wonderful. According to folk experience, Shagumi children's chancre, typhoid, dysentery, dampness and heat, etc., have auxiliary therapeutic effect, especially aged Shagumi is good. Therefore, in Qianjiang, home often have ten years eight years and even decades of Shagumi stale storage in case of emergency.

According to people tasting the various starches made of saguaro rice, pure sweet potato starch made of saguaro rice taste the best, but there is a kind of "potato flavor"; alone to the scholar potato starch, cassava starch made of saguaro rice, there is no "bite", the taste is not good. Only with sweet potato starch and potato starch mixed production of sand grain rice, neither "potato flavor", but also "bite", crunchy and smooth, the best taste, can be called the best.

Rice cooker practice: generally easier to cook with a rice cooker. 150 grams of Shagumi wash, add about 1000 ml of water, boil for 3 minutes after the cease-fire, let the hot water slowly penetrate the Shagumi for a while, and then add the right amount of water and put the right amount of sugar, sugar water open and then turn off the power . Simmer until the sand grain rice completely transparent can be. There is a more special method you do not prevent to try: use water to cook Shagumi to transparent, fish out, and then with coconut milk powder or coconut milk or fresh milk to cook (boiling can be turned off the fire, according to personal preference to put the right amount of sugar), after refrigeration of the Yeh Milk Shagumi taste more special, more delicious!