1. The consistency is different.

Gruel is a little thicker than thin rice. Thin rice can still see the rice when eating yo, porridge can not.

2, need to cook time is different.

In the practice of porridge time is longer than the rare rice pot.

3, cooking congee when the water is less than cooking thin rice.

Rice: the ratio of rice and water is 1:5.

Congee: the ratio of rice and water is 1:3.

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Misunderstandings of congee:

1, first of all, it is really beneficial to drink congee appropriately, but you can't drink congee all the time. Always drink porridge, the elderly will be due to insufficient energy and nutritional intake and malnutrition. Therefore, porridge should also pay attention to balanced nutrition, one meal a day.

2, many people think that porridge stomach. But in fact this point of view is not comprehensive. Drinking congee not slowly chewing, can not promote can help digestion of the salivary gland secretion; and water high porridge in the stomach, will play a role in diluting the role of gastric acid, accelerate the expansion of the stomach, the stomach movement is slow, is not conducive to digestion.

3, therefore, stomach patients should not drink congee, but should choose easy to digest and absorb the diet, chewing and swallowing, to promote digestion. In addition, the function of the porridge is different, millet porridge stomach and bract flour porridge can help digestion.

4, if you want to congee to regulate the body, be sure to first carefully understand the different functions of the porridge, to do the "symptomatic porridge" to achieve the purpose of regulating. Finally, I would like to say, porridge, of course, is beneficial, but do not need to eat all the time, to ensure that two to four times a week for the best.

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