Millet is a cereal meal with high nutritional value. It is rich in protein and vitamins. It can be eaten by the human body and can also be used as medicine. The soup made from millet is delicious, rich in nutrients and has great health care effects. Okay, so what are the benefits of millet soup? How to make millet soup? Here are some ways to use millet soup for health and beauty.
1. Rice soup beauty method
Materials: millet and brown sugar in appropriate amounts.
Usage: Boil millet into porridge and let it dry for a while. A layer of thick substance will appear on the top of the rice porridge, commonly known as rice soup oil. Skip out the rice soup oil, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar and mix thoroughly, apply it evenly on the face and rub it for a while. The texture of the rice soup oil is fine and smooth, with a slightly higher fat content than rice porridge. It can moisturize the skin and lighten spots. Brown sugar contains high amounts of glucose, vitamins, and minerals, which can moisturize, whiten, and remove wrinkles.
2. Millet soup for anti-dandruff and moisturizing treatment
Materials: 150g millet, 3000ml water.
Usage: Cook millet into porridge and filter out the rice soup. Wash your hair with warm millet soup and soak it for 15 minutes. Rinse with warm water. No other shampoo is needed. It has the functions of removing dirt, nourishing the scalp, moisturizing the hair, removing dandruff and relieving itching.
3. Millet soup to treat ulcers at the corners of the mouth
Ingredients: 50~100g millet, half a teaspoon of honey.
Instructions: Cook millet porridge, let it cool to a suitable temperature, scoop out half a spoonful of thick rice soup, put it into a small glass bottle, add honey and mix well. Set aside. Finished the remaining rice porridge. Use a sterilized cotton swab dipped in rice water with honey and apply it to the affected area, once every 2 to 3 hours. Millet is rich in vitamin B1 and vitamin B2, which can treat indigestion, sores at the corners of the mouth, and ulcers at the corners of the mouth.
4. Millet soup to treat penis edema in children
Ingredients: 100g millet, 1000ml water.
Instructions: Wash the millet, put it into a pot, add water and bring to a boil. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 10 to 13 minutes. Turn off the heat when the millet is about 70% mature, and filter out the upper layer. Rice water, let it cool to a suitable temperature and then wash the affected area.
5. How to choose millet
1. Advantages and disadvantages
⒈High-quality millet has uniform grain size, uniform color, milky white, yellow or golden color, and luster , very little broken rice, no insects, no impurities.
Put a small amount of the millet to be tested on soft white paper, breathe through your mouth to moisten it, then twist the millet with the paper several times and observe whether there is a slight yellow color on the paper. If there is yellow, explain The millet to be tested is dyed with yellow pigment. In addition, you can also moisten a small amount of the sample with water and observe the color change of the water. If there is a slight yellow color, it means that it is mixed with yellow pigment.
⒉High-quality millet smells fresh and has no other odor. Severely spoiled millet easily turns into powder when twisted by hand, with a lot of broken rice. It smells slightly musty, sour, rotten or other abnormal odors.
⒊High-quality millet tastes good, slightly sweet, without any peculiar smell. Low-quality millet tastes tasteless, with slight bitterness, astringency and other unpleasant tastes.
2. Identification methods
1. Appearance of dyed millet.
At the farmer's market, I once found some dyed millet for sale. The so-called dyeing means that millet becomes moldy and loses its edible value. Speculators rinse it and then dye it with yellow pigment to make it bright yellow and deceive buyers. If people eat this dyed yellow rice, it will harm their health.
2. Sensory identification method of dyed millet.
Color: Fresh millet has a uniform color, golden yellow, and full of luster; dyed millet has a dark yellow color and lacks luster, and the grains look the same.