A healthy nutritious diet should be matched with staple food and non-staple food, so as to be nutritious and beneficial to health. Even if you eat the staple food itself, you should also pay attention to collocation, because there are many kinds of raw materials for making staple food, such as rice, millet, corn, sorghum, wheat flour, buckwheat noodles, oats, mung beans, peas, red beans, red beans and sweet potatoes, which contain different nutrients. Only by collocation can the nutrition be more comprehensive.

Rice is divided into rice, millet, corn, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, etc., and their nutritional contents are similar, but there are differences and different effects. Rice and rice are suitable for cooking together to make porridge or rice, and can also be made into powder. In this way, its nutritional effect can be enhanced, which is beneficial to human health.

Rice: It contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, calming stomach qi, growing muscles, strengthening bones and promoting fluid production, and improving eyesight and wisdom.

Ermi porridge

Materials and preparation method

200 grams of rice, millet 100 grams, and appropriate amount of water.

Put water in the pot, bring it to a boil, add the washed rice, and when it is five-ripe, add the millet and cook it with low heat.

Color, taste and nutrition

Rice is white, millet is golden, porridge soup is smooth and palatable, and it is rich in nutrition. Rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus and iron per100g, and also contains more vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and nicotinic acid. Rice has the effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach. "Qianjin Food Treatment" contains: "Flat stomach gas, long muscles." "Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan" contains: "Treat all kinds of deficiency and damage, strengthen yin and bones, promote fluid production, improve eyesight and gain wisdom." Millet has the effects of nourishing kidney qi, strengthening spleen and stomach, and clearing away deficiency and heat, and treating spleen and stomach deficiency and heat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Compendium of Materia Medica states: "Nourishing kidney-qi, stopping dysentery, quenching thirst and facilitating urination ..." The South Yunnan Materia Medica states: "Nourishing yin, nourishing kidney-qi, strengthening spleen and stomach, and warming middle warmer."

Rice stick porridge

Materials and preparation method

200 grams of rice, 200 grams of yellow corn and a little alkali.

Boil the water in the pot, first add the stick, add a small amount of alkali, wait until 20 minutes, then add the washed rice and cook it into porridge with low heat.

Color, taste and nutrition

The color is yellow and white, and the taste is fresh and pleasant. Corn contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus and iron, as well as carotene, B vitamins and nicotinic acid. The main nutritional value is similar to that of rice, but the fat of corn is 4 ~ 5 times that of rice and flour, and it is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, of which 50% is linoleic acid. It also contains phosphatidylcholine, sitosterol, vitamin E, etc., which has the function of strengthening the brain. It can also reduce serum cholesterol, prevent hypertension, coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction, and is a food for middle-aged and elderly people to delay aging. Adding corn to rice can reduce the disadvantages of sour taste of rice and make porridge more fragrant and slightly sweet.