The rice needed for eight-treasure rice is glutinous rice, which needs to be washed and soaked for more than one and a half hours in advance before it can be made, otherwise it will be difficult to cook glutinous rice, and it will be raw if cooked for a long time.

Glutinous rice, also known as glutinous rice, is the shelled kernel of Gramineae rice (glutinous rice). According to the color of chaff and rice, it can be divided into red and white, and also into hairy and hairless. It is cultivated all over the country.

The south of China is called glutinous rice, while the north is called glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is the main raw material for making sticky snacks, such as rice dumplings, eight-treasure porridge, rice cakes and other desserts, and it is also the main raw material for brewing glutinous rice wine (sweet rice wine) in southern China. Glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid and starch.