Traditional Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice is a mild tonic with rich nutrition and astringent effect, which can alleviate the symptoms of spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea to some extent. And in the Pharmacopoeia, Sun Simiao called it "the Valley of Spleen".
Although glutinous rice is also a kind of rice, it is generally not used as a staple food here in Guangdong, and no one eats glutinous rice every day. Occasionally, glutinous rice is used to make glutinous rice dumplings, glutinous rice cakes, zongzi, steamed dumplings or glutinous rice wine. Many people may say, since glutinous rice belongs to rice, why can't it be used as a staple food like rice? Is eating too much glutinous rice bad for the stomach?
Patients with bad stomach had better not eat glutinous rice. If you really want to eat glutinous rice, you must eat it in moderation. If you really want to eat glutinous rice, you must eat it in moderation. Because eating too much glutinous rice is easy to cause indigestion, so don't eat too much at a time, especially for friends with bad stomach. After eating glutinous rice, you can drink a cup of boiled water, which is helpful for the absorption and digestion of glutinous rice.
For friends with poor gastrointestinal function, be sure to control the amount of glutinous rice. And you need to cook glutinous rice porridge and eat it while it's hot. Eat less zongzi, glutinous rice cakes and other staple foods. Otherwise, the discomfort in the stomach is easy to aggravate, causing pain, heartache and other phenomena. Friends with insufficient gastric acid secretion, eating glutinous rice is not easy to digest, and it is easy to cause food accumulation.
The reason why glutinous rice has a bad influence on the stomach is mainly because of glutinous rice itself, but also because of our own situation and eating methods. We can't completely deny it, but we can't blindly follow suit. So different people will have different problems when eating food.
Glutinous rice is different from rice in that the starch contained in glutinous rice is "amylopectin" and the starch contained in glutinous rice is "amylopectin". The gelatinization process of starch requires temperature, and the higher the amylose content in the grain, the higher the gelatinization temperature will be. The gelatinization temperature of glutinous rice with high amylopectin content is lower than that of rice; Glutinous rice is easier to gelatinize in hot water, and once gelatinized, it is easier to be absorbed by the human body. This is the truth of "glutinous rice nourishes the stomach and strengthens the spleen".
When we are hit by the cold, drinking a bowl of cooked glutinous rice porridge will certainly warm our stomach, and it won't add too much digestive burden.
Whether glutinous rice is good or bad for gastrointestinal tract mainly depends on "the consumption of glutinous rice", "the cooking method of glutinous rice food" and "the temperature". For people who are "sensitive to the gastrointestinal tract itself", it is recommended to eat those freshly cooked glutinous rice foods, which are warm, less oily and less sugar. glutinous rice porridge and small pieces of hot jiaozi are good choices; For people with normal gastrointestinal function, both hot and cold glutinous rice can be eaten, but a small amount should be eaten to avoid increasing the burden on the body due to the intake of more calories.
Long-term consumption of glutinous rice is helpful to regulate spleen and stomach weakness. We usually eat healthy people, no problem. It is rich in starch and can provide us with energy. At the same time, there are a small amount of B vitamins and a small amount of minerals. This must be good for our health. But eating too much, eating too much starch, increases the burden of digestion, consumes too much energy, and the result is to gain weight.
Moreover, many glutinous rice foods nowadays, such as glutinous rice balls, rice cakes and cakes, are actually made of refined white glutinous rice noodles, the essence of which is a lot of starch, and a lot of sugar will be added in the production process! Eating too much will not only make you fat, but also increase your blood sugar load.
In Compendium of Materia Medica, glutinous rice is "the valley of lung qi", which can harmonize stomach and strengthen spleen. Generally speaking, sweets are very friendly to the spleen and stomach. Long-term consumption is helpful to regulate spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and glutinous rice is slightly warm, while the stomach is a typical organ that likes warm and hates cold. Eating some foods made of glutinous rice properly, such as porridge and stir-fry, has a good conditioning effect on friends with cold stomach.
Like other grains, glutinous rice has a high carbohydrate content. As a cereal, glutinous rice contains nutrients such as protein, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and nicotinic acid. Among them, the content of protein is similar to that of rice, and the nine essential amino acids needed by human body are incomplete, which belongs to incomplete protein, and the quality is not as good as that of animal food and bean products.
Glutinous rice, like other grains, is a typical energy food with high carbohydrate content, which can provide enough calories for human body.
For patients with chronic superficial gastritis with excessive gastric acid secretion, it is not suitable to eat glutinous rice (aggravating gastric acid). For friends with low gastric acid secretion in chronic atrophic gastritis, eating glutinous rice in moderation will do more good than harm. Therefore, whether glutinous rice is good for the stomach does not depend on glutinous rice itself, but on your situation and how to eat it. We can't generalize.