The traditional ingredients of Laba porridge include rice, millet, corn, barley, red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, longan and various beans (such as red beans, kidney beans, etc.).

People have the custom of eating Laba porridge on Laba day. Laba porridge is also called "Seven Treasures and Five Flavors Porridge", "Buddha Porridge", "Everyone's Rice", etc. It is a kind of porridge made from a variety of ingredients.

Although the ingredients used in Laba porridge vary in different regions, they basically include rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice, barley and other cereals, soybeans, red beans, mung beans and other legumes, red dates, peanuts , lotus seeds, wolfberry and other dried fruits.

Laba porridge is not only a seasonal delicacy, but also a good health food, especially suitable for maintaining the spleen and stomach in cold weather.