A number of American universities and research institutions for many years research shows that children before the age of 3 often drink maize porridge, grow up after the academic performance is significantly better than other children.
Corn contains a large number of nutritional health substances, in addition to carbohydrates, protein, fat, carotene, but also contains riboflavin and so on. Compared to staple foods such as rice and wheat, the vitamin content of corn is 5 to 10 times that of rice and wheat, and each 100 grams of corn provides nearly 300 milligrams of calcium, almost as much as that contained in dairy products.
Corn contains high levels of glutamic acid, which promotes brain cell metabolism and has certain brain-boosting properties. Corn fat is also more vitamins, on the prevention of cell oxidation, aging is beneficial, but also beneficial to intelligence. In addition, the fatty acids in corn fat are mainly linoleic acid, oleic acid and other unsaturated fatty acids, which are also nutrients beneficial to intellectual development.
(2) often eat corn porridge anti-cancer anti-aging prevention of heart disease
In the famous longevity hometown of Rugao, Jiangsu Province, circulating such a proverb "grits porridge, rice bottom, often drink to live to ninety a few." According to the Rugao Longevity Research Institute survey, 74% of the local centenarians in the two porridge every day, are based on corn porridge. The so-called "grits porridge", said the corn ballast porridge. Corn is ripe, on the mill crushed into small particles, about the size of the sand feeling in the hand, can also be ground into a very fine flour, eat when boiling water, a hand holding a spoon, a hand to the corn grits evenly sprinkled into the pot, sprinkle while stirring. The "rice to beat the bottom", said in the corn ballast mixed with white rice to porridge.
Such corn porridge, in fact, and longevity have much to do with it? Tianjin Nutrition Society Honorary Chairman Fu Jinru told the Life Times reporter that corn is a kind of coarse grain rich in multiple nutrients, for the current rice and white flour as the dominant dietary habits, it is a very good adjustment and supplement. The German Nutrition and Health Association has conducted nutritional analysis of a variety of common staple foods, and found that the nutritional value and health effects of corn are the highest. It was found that the vitamin content of corn is very high, 5-10 times higher than that of rice and wheat. At the same time, corn also contains riboflavin, vitamins and other nutrients that can effectively prevent heart disease and cancer.
The corn ballast boiled into porridge, and help the body to replenish water. Physiological research shows that the middle-aged and elderly people are most likely to occur in the body of chronic dehydration. This not only makes the amount of urine decrease, but also make the skin function, sweat gland secretion decrease, affect the body of metabolite excretion, cause harmful substances in the body accumulation,.
Before the porridge, you can soak the corn ballast in water for a while in advance, so that it is good to cook, but also save fire. If the digestive function is not good, you can also choose cornmeal, just after the water boils down the pot. "Rice hit the bottom", is actually a coarse and fine grain with the problem. In addition to rice, you can also add some beans in the porridge to make the nutrition more comprehensive.