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How to cook porridge with corn grits?
Corn grits are actually a very easy food to cook. Generally speaking, it can be cooked in 15 minutes. Wash and soak corn grits for more than 12 hours, then use them to cook porridge, and it will be easy to boil. However, the disadvantage of this method is that the loss of nutrients is relatively large, and it is easy to make the corn grits sour when it is hot.

Wash the corn grits, put them in a container, and soak them in water for about 2 hours, so that the inside of the corn grits can absorb enough water. Then, put the soaked corn grits into a plastic bag, tie the bag tightly and put it in the freezer of the refrigerator, and take out another bag when you need to cook porridge. Facts have proved that frozen corn grits are easy to cook without losing too much nutrition.

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The vitamin content in corn is very high, which is 5- 10 times that of rice and wheat. Among all staple foods, corn has the highest nutritional value and health care function. High-nutrient substances such as riboflavin contained in corn are very beneficial to human body.

It is worth noting that the nutritional value of special corn is higher than that of ordinary corn, and the nutritional components such as water, active substances and vitamins of fresh corn are also much higher than those of old corn.

According to Compendium of Materia Medica, corn cultivated in the west is sweet and nontoxic, which can stimulate appetite. The pollen and germ of corn also contain a lot of vitamin E and corn flavonoids. Regular consumption of corn products can delay human aging and enhance human physical strength and endurance.

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