Can eating black rice cure white hair?
Black rice is a kind of rice variety with high nutritional value, which contains special components such as vitamin C, chlorophyll, anthocyanin and carotene, which are all nutritional conditions that ordinary rice does not have, so black rice is considered to be more nutritious than rice in traditional Chinese medicine. As early as in Compendium of Materia Medica, some records were made on the nutritional and medicinal value of black rice. It is believed that eating black rice has the effects of "nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening spleen and warming liver, improving eyesight and promoting blood circulation", and has a good nourishing and recuperating effect on white hair, postpartum weakness, anemia and dizziness, kidney deficiency, etc., and has a good curative effect on some diseases caused by physical deficiency and deficiency.
Eating black rice does promote the healthy growth of hair, but it is unscientific to treat white hair simply by eating black rice. Chinese medicine believes that blood heat, kidney qi weakness and qi and blood weakness are all causes of white hair. It is suggested to find out the cause of gray hair and treat it symptomatically.
How to eat the most nutritious black rice?
The nutritional value of black rice is so high because its outer cortex contains many anthocyanin pigments with strong anti-aging effect, so the color is black, and this layer of pigment is also the main source of value of black rice. Therefore, it is not appropriate to use refined processing method for eating black rice, and brown rice or standard third-class rice should be the best. If porridge is cooked, the water for washing rice and rice should be cooked together to avoid nutrient loss.
How to identify the authenticity of black rice?
Now there are some illegal vendors selling adulterated black rice in the market, so how can consumers distinguish between true and false black rice when buying black rice? In fact, it can be identified by several small methods:
1. Look at the color and appearance of rice, choose shiny black rice with uniform size and no impurities, and at the same time, a good black rice can see milky endosperm by scraping off the skin;
2. Smell the smell, high-quality black rice is fragrant and odorless;
3. Taste, the high-quality black rice tastes slightly sweet when chewed, and the bad black rice tastes sour or bitter, with peculiar smell.
With three points, it is generally possible to distinguish between true and false black rice.
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