Alkali (baking soda) can promote starch absorption pasteurization, so that the outer layer of the starch grain gluten dissolved into the water, you can make the porridge faster cooked, but also make the porridge taste more viscous.

Millet has a high nutritional value and is good for the stomach and digestion, preventing indigestion and vomiting. For gastric ulcer, gastritis patients and pregnant women to eat millet porridge (gastric acid secretion leads to increased gastric burden, and millet porridge amino acid composition is not as good as rice porridge) can be added a small amount of alkali powder, neutralize gastric acid, protect the stomach. Relatively speaking the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

For rice porridge, alkali powder will destroy the nutrition of rice, destroy the original aroma of rice, relatively speaking, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits.

Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO?) (Sodium Bicarbonate), commonly known as baking soda. It is a fine white crystal with less solubility in water than sodium carbonate. It is also an industrial chemical, low toxicity. Solid above 50 ° C began to decompose gradually to generate sodium carbonate, carbon dioxide and water, 440 ° C when completely decomposed. Sodium bicarbonate is an acid salt produced by neutralizing a strong base with a weak acid, and appears weakly alkaline when dissolved in water. This property allows it to be used as a bulking agent in food preparation. Sodium bicarbonate leaves a residual sodium carbonate after its action, and using too much of it can give the finished product an alkaline flavor.

Mung bean porridge, which refers to porridge made from a mixture of mung beans and rice as the main ingredients. Mung beans for a common grain, cold and sweet, have heat detoxification, reduce the effect of heat, very suitable for consumption in the summer. Mung beans are also rich in protein, vitamins and trace elements, has a very high nutritional value, is a very healthy natural food. Mung beans have "antidote" function, the patient before consumption, please follow the doctor's instructions, do not recommend the use of medication practical mung beans, so as to avoid the disappearance of the efficacy of the drug.

Millet porridge is a healthy food, can be boiled alone, can also add jujube, sweet beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds, lilies, etc., boiled into different flavors of nutritious porridge. However, it should be noted that the nutritional value of millet protein is not better than rice, because the amino acid composition of millet protein is not ideal, lysine is too low and leucine is too high, so whether it is a woman in labor, or the old and weak crowd, can not be completely to millet as the main food, should pay attention to collocation, so as not to lack of other nutrients.