1, yes. Black rice can be steamed directly, but it will be better to steam after soaking. Black rice is not refined, and it is mostly preserved in the form of brown rice after hulling, and the outer skin has a hard seed coat. Usually soaking is to soak the seed coat soft and absorb enough water, so that black rice is easier to cook. Of course, you can cook it without soaking, but it takes a long time.

2. Black rice: Black rice contains nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron and zinc, and is rich in nutrition; It has many physiological functions, such as scavenging free radicals, improving iron deficiency anemia, anti-stress reaction, immune regulation and so on. Chinese medicine believes that eating more black rice has the functions of appetizing and invigorating the spleen, warming the liver and improving eyesight, promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation, and replenishing essence, and has a good nourishing effect on adolescent gray hair, women's postpartum physical weakness, physical weakness after illness, anemia and kidney deficiency. Regular consumption of black rice is conducive to the prevention and treatment of dizziness, anemia, gray hair, eye diseases, and soreness of the waist and knees.