According to grandparents' generation, living conditions are limited, and they can only eat meat on holidays, while almost all the rest of the three meals a day are porridge, especially stick-noodle porridge. Later, the variety began to increase.

Since I used to drink porridge so frequently, why don't I recommend rice porridge (rice congee) for breakfast?

In fact, what is involved here is only a simple nutritional problem, especially for people who eat white rice porridge for a long time. These shortcomings are obvious.

The nutritional value of rice congee is low: the breakfast staple food made of simple rice is single, and the refined rice is mostly starch and sugar. With the participation of water, although the overall calorie is lower than that of rice, it is easily digested by the body, especially for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes.

And it's easy to get hungry if you don't eat for a long time. Not only does energy not provide much, but nutrition can't keep up. No matter adults or children, it is not recommended that the staple food for breakfast is rice porridge.

There are great health risks in rice congee: on the one hand, rice congee has a very high glycemic index and a high blood sugar load, which will increase postprandial blood sugar. On the other hand, people like to mix all kinds of pickles when eating rice porridge, which leads to excessive salt intake and increases the hidden dangers of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension, heart disease and coronary heart disease, which should not be underestimated.

Rice congee affects physical development: For minors, rice congee has one of the biggest shortcomings, which is that its nutritional value is extremely low, thus affecting physical development, and it is not suitable for breakfast.

On the contrary, it is suggested that teenagers complete the index of a glass of milk, an egg, half a plate of fruits and vegetables, a handful of nuts and a piece of meat for breakfast. A balanced diet will bring them a healthier body.

Rice congee is too soft and rotten, but it hurts the stomach: Isn't it that eating rice congee can nourish the stomach? How did you hurt your stomach here? The reason for this is that the porridge is soft and rotten. In particular, many people like to add water to the leftovers left over yesterday and cook them in the morning. Although the cooking method is simple, it is easy to form a "degeneration" phenomenon when the stomach is exposed to soft and rotten food for a long time.

After a long time, gastrointestinal contact with indigestible coarse grains and other foods rich in dietary fiber will only react more obviously, becoming abdominal distension, diarrhea, indigestion, acid reflux in the stomach and so on.

It can be seen that the disadvantages of eating rice congee for a long time listed above are all reasons why we are not advised to do so. If you want to finish breakfast better, you are encouraged to take whole grains as the staple food, and then mix with a variety of ingredients, and a light diet will be more delicious.