1, it is best to soak rice before cooking black rice porridge. Wash the black rice and soak it in cold water for 3 hours before cooking. Because black rice has a hard seed coat outside, it is not easy to cook. Soaking black rice before cooking will make it fully absorb water and expand, making it soft and easier to boil.

2. The water consumption for cooking black rice porridge is less than that for cooking rice porridge. At the same time, stir constantly when cooking. Because the viscosity of black rice is very high, it is easy to stick to the pot when heated unevenly, so it should be cooked slowly and stirred at any time.

3. Adding a little glutinous rice when cooking black rice porridge will make the cooked black rice porridge more viscous. Of course, you can also add other ingredients, such as red beans, longan, peanuts, red dates and so on. It can also increase the nutritional value of black rice porridge.

4. Black rice is rich in B vitamins and iron. Drinking black rice porridge often helps to prevent anemia and make your face more rosy.

5. Black rice is rich in flavonoids, multivitamins and trace element selenium, all of which have antioxidant effect and can scavenge free radicals, which is very helpful to improve cardiovascular function.

6. Black rice contains protein, vitamin E, vitamin B, vitamin C, anthocyanin, carotene, calcium, manganese, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, copper and other nutritional elements, and its nutritional value is much higher than that of ordinary rice.

7. Black rice is rich in anthocyanins. Studies have shown that the darker the color of rice, the more anthocyanins in the epidermis, and the stronger its anti-aging effect.