It is really better to cook porridge after soaking the ingredients. Red adzuki beans, black beans, kidney beans and granulated oats, barley, lotus seeds and coix seed are soaked in the refrigerator for the night, and it is better to cook them. Ingredients such as purple rice, brown rice, mung bean, sorghum rice and millet need not be soaked when cooked in a pressure cooker.
Efficacy of barley
Barley is raw malt after germination, which helps digestion. Ergot compounds contained in raw malt can inhibit prolactin secretion. Take raw malt decoction orally, which can be used for lactation (weaning) of lying-in women. The dosage is about100g per day, and it is usually weaned in 2~3 days.
Stir-fried malt is also made of barley. Stir-fried barley with chaff until it is brown, which is the main ingredient in the traditional Chinese patent medicine Da hawthorn pill for appetizing and digestion. Stir-fried malt contains a variety of digestive enzymes. Chinese medicine says that "the burnt aroma enters the spleen". After stir-frying malt, it has the functions of digestion, spleen and stomach strengthening and appetite increasing.
The above contents refer to China News Network-Is it good for the elderly to eat coarse grains? People's Health Network-the dietotherapy function of grain