Congee is a more common type of staple food, whether southerners or northerners, every few days will want to drink a bowl of porridge. There are also many types of porridge, ordinary rice porridge, richer coarse grain porridge, can also be divided into sweet porridge, salty porridge and so on.

Although porridge is an ordinary food, but according to the different types of porridge food, there are different effects on the body. We Chinese people thousands of years of history of eating porridge proved that drinking the right porridge can keep you healthy and prevent disease.

It is said that from the Spring and Autumn period, the Chinese people began to have the habit of drinking porridge, and then there have been poems in the poems of successive dynasties on porridge records. Congee is a food that is simple to make, nourishing, easy to digest, nourish the stomach, and because all grains, meat and vegetables can be included in the congee, the taste of the whole, rich in nutrients.

Today's explosion of nutrition classroom dietitians, talk to you about: Autumn porridge can also cure? Millet, blood glutinous rice, oats, purple potatoes porridge have different benefits.

Millet is characterized by the ability to calm the mind and help sleep, chronic insomnia, dreamy, poor quality of sleep, you may want to drink millet porridge often. This comes from the content of tryptophan per 100 grams of millet enough up to 202 milligrams, tryptophan has the effect of soothing the mind to help sleep.

Diabetics can also drink millet porridge, millet glycemic index of 62, belonging to the medium glycemic index food, as long as the control of intake can be.

Secondly, blood glutinous rice, and ordinary white glutinous rice, compared to blood glutinous rice vitamin B1 and vitamin B2 content of white glutinous rice is 3 times, niacin is 1.8 times, and iron and zinc content than the white glutinous rice is nearly 3 times higher.

And blood glutinous rice contains anthocyanin, an antioxidant ingredient, which has obvious benefits for the protection of cardiovascular disease and the prevention of heart disease and stroke.

The third is oatmeal, oatmeal is the U.S. "Time" magazine rated the top ten healthy food in the only list of grains, oats have a wealth of dietary fiber, helps to reduce the blood "bad cholesterol", on the prevention of high blood cholesterol.

In terms of calories, oatmeal is also much lower than rice porridge, a bowl of oatmeal has only 54 calories, much lower than rice and steamed bread.

Finally, purple potatoes can also be used to porridge, purple potatoes are characterized by rich anthocyanins, anthocyanins are a very strong antioxidant, can effectively fight against free radicals, at the same time, this substance on the protection of cardiovascular health, to improve insulin resistance, and control of blood glucose have a very good effect.

Porridge is a very versatile choice of staple food, you can put vegetables, meat, easy to digest, rich in flavor, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people.

Friends, do you know what other foods are suitable to porridge? Which porridge do you like to drink? Why don't you leave a message in the comment section below and share your life experience.