The main difference between Babao porridge and Laba porridge lies in the different ingredients and tastes. The making of eight-treasure porridge is relatively simple. Generally, rice or glutinous rice is used as raw material, and some millet, mung bean, adzuki bean, walnut kernel, peanut, jujube, yam and lotus seeds are added.

The production of Laba porridge needs a variety of raw materials, such as glutinous rice, peanuts, lotus seeds, soybeans, kidney beans, mung beans, ginkgo, red dates, longan and medlar. The main raw materials are beans and grains.

In fact, the ingredients of Babao porridge and Laba porridge are very similar, but some ingredients are not added to Laba porridge. However, there are no restrictions on the ingredients used in the production of eight-treasure porridge and Laba porridge, and the ingredients used in the two can replace each other.