There are three key points in the secret of cooking black rice porridge. First, black rice should be soaked in clear water overnight, so that the rice grains can fully absorb water and expand, making the black rice soft and easier to cook. Secondly, when cooking black rice porridge, it is necessary to reduce the amount of water on the existing basis, ensure the consistency of porridge, and constantly stir to avoid uneven heating of black rice porridge. Finally, you can add a little japonica rice or other cereal ingredients to the black rice porridge, which will not only increase the nutritional value of the black rice porridge, but also make the porridge thicker and softer.

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1. Black rice contains protein, carbohydrates, B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc and other nutrients.

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2. Black rice has many physiological functions, such as scavenging free radicals, improving iron deficiency anemia, resisting stress reaction, and regulating immunity.

3. Flavonoids in black rice can maintain the normal osmotic pressure of blood vessels, reduce the fragility of blood vessels, prevent the rupture of blood vessels and stop bleeding;

4. Black rice has antibacterial, blood pressure lowering and cancer cell growth inhibiting effects;

5. Black rice can also improve myocardial nutrition and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black rice has significant medicinal value, and ancient agricultural medical books record that black rice has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening the body and warming the stomach, improving eyesight and promoting blood circulation, clearing liver and moistening intestines, promoting diuresis and replenishing essence, nourishing lung and relaxing muscles and tendons. Can be used as medicine, and has particularly good curative effect on dizziness, anemia, gray hair, soreness of waist and knees, night blindness and tinnitus. Long-term consumption can prolong life. Therefore, people commonly call it "medicated rice" and "longevity rice". Because it is most suitable for pregnant women and parturients to replenish blood, it is also called "moon rice" and "blood rice". Emperors of past dynasties also regarded it as the treasure of palace health preservation and called it "Gong Mi".

Modern medicine has proved that black rice has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, invigorating spleen and warming liver, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, benefiting qi and promoting blood circulation, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. Regular consumption of black rice is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of dizziness, anemia, gray hair, eye diseases, soreness of waist and knees, lung dryness and cough, constipation, dysuria, kidney deficiency and edema, loss of appetite, weakness of spleen and stomach, etc. Because the nutrients contained in black rice are mostly concentrated in the black cortex, it is not suitable for finishing. It is best to eat brown rice or standard third-class rice. According to nutrition expert Li, the vigor index of black rice is 7.702 1, and the food disease prevention index is 36.05, which has strong health care function.

Inorganic salts such as manganese, zinc and copper in black rice are mostly 1~3 times higher than those in rice. It also contains special ingredients such as vitamin C, chlorophyll, anthocyanin, carotene and cardiac glycoside that rice lacks, so black rice is more nutritious than ordinary rice. Eating more black rice has the functions of appetizing, invigorating the spleen, warming the liver, improving eyesight, promoting blood circulation, smoothing qi and replenishing essence, and has a good nourishing effect on juvenile gray hair, women's postpartum physical weakness, post-illness physical weakness, anemia and kidney deficiency.