The truth-"Soaking rice leads to indigestion and malnutrition" is unfounded.

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Soaking rice is a favorite food of many people, and it is also the favorite of lazy people. Indeed, soup soaked rice is convenient and delicious to make, and it is also a good way to deal with leftovers. However, according to rumors, in the eyes of some nutrition experts, soup and rice are like a scourge of gastrointestinal health.

Even nutritionists' suggestions are doubtful: human beings have experienced hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, eaten countless coarse grains and indigestible food, and can eat fine and digestible rice for thousands of years, which is only a moment compared with the whole human history. Is it that after eating rice for thousands of years, the human stomach is too weak to digest soup and rice?

To solve this mystery, it is indispensable to see what scientists say. Regrettably, the soup and rice soaked in soup, which is loved by the broad masses of the people, does not seem to be favored by scientists. As far as I know, there is no literature about the influence of soup and rice on the digestive system. Fortunately, scientists have a more mature view on the relationship between two diseases related to rumors: functional dyspepsia and malnutrition and food.

Functional malnutrition-correlation ≠ causality

Functional dyspepsia is a kind of functional gastrointestinal diseases. Functional gastroenteropathy is a digestive tract disease whose cause is difficult to find (the whole digestive tract from esophagus to anus). No reason can be found, which means that scientists can't judge what the reason is. Food may or may not be related to the disease.

Scientists in clinical medical college found that the nutritional components of most foods have no obvious correlation with functional gastrointestinal diseases, and no food can be called the "culprit" of functional gastrointestinal diseases. The daily lipid intake of patients is slightly higher than that of normal people, while their carbohydrate intake is slightly lower, but the difference is not significant. Although the main population of this study is westerners, it can also give us some hints: soup and rice soaked in soup are unlikely to cause indigestion.