These two substances are the same food, just called differently. In the northern region we are accustomed to call Jiangmian, while in the southern southern region is generally called glutinous rice noodles, whether it becomes Jiangmian or glutinous rice noodles, both represent a substance. Both can be used to make sticky bean buns, mochi, dumplings and so on.

Sticky rice noodles, also known as glutinous rice flour, is made from glutinous rice soaked overnight, water milled into slurry water, hung in a cloth bag for a night, when the water drips dry, the wet glutinous rice flour dough broken and dried is the finished glutinous rice flour, of course, you can buy ready-made in the supermarket. It can be used to make food such as soup dumplings (i.e. Yuanxiao) and family snacks, and is known for its unique flavor.

Expanded Information

Glutinous rice is sweet in taste, warm in nature, and enters the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians; it has the effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and stopping sweating, and it has a certain alleviating effect on the coldness of the spleen and stomach, poor appetite, and abdominal distension and diarrhea; it has the effect of astringency and is a better therapeutic effect on frequent urination and night sweating.

Contraindications and side effects

1, where dampness, heat, phlegm and fire people avoid eating; where fever, cough, phlegm, jaundice, bloating people avoid eating;

2, glutinous rice sticky, if made into cakes, it is more difficult to digest, so infants, young children, the elderly, the digestive capacity of the weak after the disease to avoid eating glutinous rice cakes; diabetic patients eat less or do not eat.

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