Once a person is old, the functions of all parts of the body begin to decline, and even what to eat should be carefully considered. The digestive function of old people's stomach is far less than that of young people. If the food is not digested, constipation will occur.

With the aging of the stomach, the gastric acid secreted in the stomach can't be decomposed, and the elderly will have heartburn, sometimes affecting their sleep at night, which will also reduce their health. It can be said that once the stomach is not well maintained, the whole body will be implicated, which is the so-called "one move." Therefore, in order to nourish the stomach, the elderly often eat glutinous rice because they think that eating glutinous rice can nourish the stomach. Does that make sense?

The so-called glutinous rice glutinous rice, as its name implies, is a kind of soft glutinous rice. Because of its excellent viscosity, it is often used to make delicious food, such as zongzi and rice cakes. Moreover, compared with rice, glutinous rice has higher nutritional value, and nutrients such as calcium, vitamin B and iron are higher than staple foods such as rice and flour. Glutinous rice is actually very easy to digest because of its soft and glutinous characteristics, so it is an edible food for the elderly. Moreover, Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice has the function of stopping cold and maintaining spleen and stomach, so it makes sense for the elderly to eat glutinous rice to nourish the stomach.

But although glutinous rice is good, we should also pay attention to how to eat it. If you eat it hot, the glutinous rice just out of the pot is soft and easy to digest. If you eat it cold, the glutinous rice is not as soft as when it was just out of the pot. If you eat again at this time, not only can you not nourish your stomach, but it is not easy to digest and will hurt your stomach.