You can cook porridge together and drink it, which is called multi-grain porridge.

Nutritional value of multigrain porridge

Rice: It has the effects of nourishing the spleen, harmonizing the stomach, and clearing the lungs.

Mung beans: cool in nature. Enters the heart and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving heat and diuresis, quenching thirst and relieving annoyance, improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure, soothing throat and moisturizing skin, removing fat and protecting liver. It is often used to prevent and treat excessive thirst during summer heat, nephritis and edema, ulcers, gastroenteritis, pharyngitis, etc. Adzuki beans: sour and neutral in nature. Enters the spleen, liver, and bladder meridians; has the effects of diuresis and dampness, blood and pus removal, heat-clearing and detoxifying, intestine-widening and qi-enhancing, and menstruation-regulating and breast-regulating effects. It is especially suitable for those with anemia, swollen stomach, and weak stomach and kidneys.

Soybeans: neutral in nature. Enters the spleen, lung and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and widening the middle, moistening dryness and eliminating water, anti-inflammatory and detoxifying, dehumidifying and diuretic. It is a good food for patients with cardiovascular disease. And it has certain curative effect on diabetes. Practice has proven that people who regularly eat soybeans or soy products are less likely to suffer from diabetes.

Lentils have the effects of strengthening the stomach and neutralizing heat, relieving heat and reducing dampness, replenishing the spleen and lowering qi, tonifying deficiency and stopping diarrhea. The ancient "Prolonging Life and Secret Stomach" says: "Lentil porridge and nourishing the five internal organs.

" Black beans: neutral in nature. Enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the functions of promoting blood circulation and detoxification, dispelling wind and diuresis, nourishing kidney and nourishing yin, relieving surface and clearing away heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight.

Purple rice: warm in nature. Enters the heart, spleen and kidney meridians.

The above ingredients are all foods and are not mutually exclusive, so any one can be chosen.

If the raw materials are all beans, the cooked porridge will be more dispersed and non-sticky, so a lot of rice is often added to it, and the cooked taste will be better, and it will not affect the original porridge. Medicinal efficacy.

(Commonly used raw materials: red beans, mung beans, soybeans, black beans, kidney beans, purple rice, glutinous rice, sticky corn, brown rice, barley kernels, lotus seeds, peanuts, jujubes, lilies)