Blood glutinous rice is black glutinous rice.

Black glutinous rice is purple rice, purple rice is a variety of rice, belonging to the glutinous rice category, only Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan has a small amount of cultivation, is a more precious rice varieties, divided into purple japonica, purple glutinous two kinds. Purple rice particles uniform, purple and black color, taste sweet, sweet but not greasy.

Black glutinous rice is known as the "black pearl", rice plants, is with purple-red seed coat of rice, because the rice quality has glutinous, so also known as blood glutinous rice. Black glutinous rice has a high nutritional value, in addition to protein, fat, carbohydrates, but also rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, B2 and so on.

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Dietary Role:

Eating black glutinous rice has the appetizer and benefit of the middle, strengthen the spleen and warm the liver, eyesight, blood, slippery and astringent tonic The function of essence, for teenagers gray hair, women's post-partum weakness, post-sickness and anemia, kidney deficiency are very good nourishing effect.

Glutinous rice is high in calcium and has the effect of tonifying the bones and strengthening the teeth. Black glutinous rice can be soaked into a cloth bag, tied with a line, and then stewed with pork bones, etc., cooked soup, and then take out the bag of glutinous rice, porridge several times to eat, but also the role of stomach.

Regularly eat black glutinous rice and the role of the kidney. Chinese medicine believes that "black gas into the kidney, black more kidney". Black glutinous rice cooked wolfberry, can cure the liver and kidney deficiency caused by dizziness, tinnitus, lumbar and knee weakness, etc., black glutinous rice can also make the hair black and shiny.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia_Black Glutinous Rice