Ordinary rice, also known as japonica rice or polished rice, is translucent, oval or oval, with high rice yield, small rice grain expansion, but high viscosity. As daily edible rice, japonica rice contains starch, protein, fat, vitamin B 1, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, calcium and iron, which can provide nutrition and calories for human body.

Gu Wan Li said that cooking porridge with japonica rice has a history of 2,000 years in China. The porridge oil on the top layer of japonica rice porridge can supplement body fluid and essence, which is of great benefit to nourishing yin essence and kidney essence of human body, and is most suitable for patients, parturients and the elderly. Japonica rice has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, invigorating the middle qi, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, relieving annoyance and thirst, strengthening the intestine and stopping diarrhea. It can be used for spleen and stomach weakness, polydipsia, malnutrition, post-illness weakness and other diseases, but diabetic patients should be careful not to eat more.

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Rice is a popular staple food in China, even in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is steamed or stewed with rice and appropriate amount of water.

Rice, also known as white rice, or rice for short.

This is a kind of food made of boiled rice. Rice is the most important food in East Asia, such as China, Japanese and Korean. The way to cook rice is to add a cup and a half of water to a cup of rice. The cooked rice is properly expanded, the inside is completely cooked, and the water is removed.

In restaurants and tea restaurants in Hong Kong, plain rice is also commonly known as handsome boy, and its source can no longer be verified.

The appearance of rice can be traced back to porridge. Because the requirement of controlling the amount of porridge is lower than that of rice, the ancients in China gradually mastered the cooking effect of different amounts of water and developed fuller rice.

Because the modern technology of grinding grain is more and more advanced than that in ancient times, the rice people eat has gradually changed from brown rice to white rice, and even white rice such as unwashed rice has appeared, but all kinds of nutrients stored on the surface of brown rice, that is, rice bran, have been lost, leaving only starch and other sugars, which has also caused the increase of diabetes cases in modern people.

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