Many women in northern China have a tradition of adding millet and brown sugar to regulate their health after giving birth.

Millet contains a variety of vitamins, amino acids, fats and carbohydrates, and has high nutritional value. Every 100g millet contains eggs.

White matter 9.7 grams, fat 3.5 grams, not lower than rice and wheat. Generally, there is no carotene in cereals, but the content of millet is 0. 12 mg per 100 g, and the content of vitamin B 1 ranks first among all cereals. The sugar content of millet is also very high, 72.8 grams per 100 grams, and the heat output is much higher than that of rice. In addition, millet is rich in vitamin B 1. B2, etc. It also has the function of preventing indigestion and aphtha.

Therefore, millet can be said to be the most ideal tonic for old, weak, sick and disabled pregnant women. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that Xiaomi "treats nausea and dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits farmland, supplements deficiency and opens the stomach". Chinese medicine also says that millet is "warm in the stomach" and thinks that millet is sweet and salty, and has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, invigorating stomach and removing dampness, calming the heart and calming the nerves. It is more suitable for people with internal heat and weak spleen and stomach. Some people have a bad appetite. After eating millet, it can stimulate appetite, nourish stomach, strengthen stomach, promote digestion and prevent nausea and vomiting.

Millet porridge is a kind of healthy food, which can be boiled alone or added with red dates, red beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds and lilies to make nutrition porridge with different flavors. Millet can be made into cakes by grinding into powder, which is delicious. It should be noted, however, that the nutritional value of millet in protein is not better than that of rice, so we can't take millet as the staple food completely, so we should pay attention to collocation to avoid the lack of other nutrients.