Soup soaked rice (Source: Oriental IC)
According to the Health Times, when people eat, they should not only chew food and swallow it, but more importantly, they should moisten it with saliva, which is produced by chewing food. The digestive enzymes in saliva can help the human body digest and absorb it, which is beneficial to health. Soaking rice in soup is to make the rice soft and easy to swallow without chewing, so the food eaten in the mouth often enters the stomach without digesting saliva, which increases the burden on the digestion and absorption of the stomach. Over time, it is easy to cause stomach discomfort.
As the saying goes, soup soaked in rice can't be chewed badly. If you are always used to soup soaked in rice when eating, then the food will be swallowed without careful chewing, which will not only be detrimental to the digestion and absorption of the stomach, but also affect the function of the spleen. According to the report of China Daily, Chinese medicine believes that the spleen governs transportation, which means that the function of the spleen is to transform food into nutrients and then transport them to various organs and tissues of the body. Just like a processing factory, it processes chewed semi-finished products into finished products. If these semi-finished products contain incomplete or rough products that have not been chewed well, the finished products formed by these incomplete products will be unqualified in the reprocessing process, and even increase the loss of the spleen.
In addition, Chen Xingling, chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, Xinhua Hospital, Zhejiang Province, said in an online interview with Zhejiang that for children in the growing period, frequent consumption of soup and soaked rice will not only hinder the digestion and absorption function of the gastrointestinal tract, but also reduce the chewing function and masticatory muscular atrophy, which will even seriously affect the face shape of children in adulthood. Often eating soup and soaking rice is also easy for children to develop bad eating habits of "swallowing dates".
Since eating soup and soaking rice often has many hazards, will eating soup and porridge also affect your health? According to the report of jiaodong online, eating soup with rice is different from eating soup with rice. Soup can increase the moisture in the mouth and stimulate appetite, but it does not affect the chewing of food. Eating soup with rice with rice with rice reduces the chewing process, and makes the food that has not been chewed into the stomach, thus increasing the burden on the stomach. The texture of porridge is delicate. After rice is boiled, the starch in it has been decomposed into dextrin which is easily absorbed by the stomach, and it will not affect people's digestive function. (Guo Xingxing)
This article is scientifically checked by Ruan Guangfeng, director of the business department of Kexin Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center.