Chinese Geriatrics Society executive director of the Chinese Geriatrics Society, the Chinese Geriatrics Society Osteoporosis Committee Standing Committee, Professor Miao Yide said that, according to the porridge, rice, steamed bread and other food digestion and absorption of research, porridge sugar absorption rate of 96.5%, 99.5% of rice, steamed bread for 99.9%; porridge protein absorption rate of 56.1%, 99.5% of rice, steamed bread for 99.9%.

Miao Yide said, long-term porridge has the following disadvantages: because porridge do not need to chew, lack of chewing will accelerate the degeneration of the chewing organs of the elderly; porridge food in the lower fiber content, is not conducive to the elderly detoxification.

Eating must be chewed, chewing not only to use the teeth to the rice grains fine bite, but also prompted the secretion of saliva, saliva contains enzymes on the starch also has a preliminary role in digestion.

After mixing grains with water for a long time and boiling them, they form a meal, which is digested by the stomach and intestines almost without the help of chewing teeth and saliva.

Lack of chewing, the amylase enzyme in saliva can not fully break down the starch in the porridge into maltose, thus affecting digestion.

Saliva also neutralizes gastric acid and repairs the gastric mucosa, and when you drink porridge, your mouth almost does not need to secrete saliva, which is not conducive to protecting the gastric mucosa. Therefore, if you want to drink porridge, it is best to add some accessories.

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