In this era of health, the benefits of eating coarse grains have been recognized by most people. But don't think that eating coarse grains means drinking coarse porridge, eating boiled cereal, eating corncob and eating sweet potatoes. In fact, different people pay attention to the choice of coarse grains and cooking methods, otherwise eating coarse grains will not only fail to achieve the expected health care effect, but may also be harmful to health.

What do you know about coarse grains?

It mainly includes cereals: millet, rhubarb rice, sorghum rice, brown rice, all kinds of wheat and its products, barley grains, wheat grains, whole wheat flour, oatmeal, buckwheat flour, adzuki beans, mung beans, broad beans, peas, lotus seeds, coix seed and so on. And potatoes.

How do different people eat?

As long as the amount of coarse grains eaten every day is not particularly large, the choice of coarse grains is not too taboo, but different people should pay attention to the choice of types and cooking methods:

Women eat more coarse grains 1, and women who love beauty. Focus on coarse grains with high iron content such as millet, rhubarb rice, black rice and purple rice. In addition, red beans, barley and lotus seeds can also be eaten often. You can put several kinds of grains together and cook them into miscellaneous grains porridge to drink. If you occasionally add red dates, medlar, tremella and other ingredients, the effect will be better. Beautiful women will drink well.

Women eat more coarse grains. 2. Old people and children. The digestive function of the elderly and children is relatively weak. You can choose more millet and rhubarb rice, less starch beans, and other kinds can be eaten properly, but the thickness should be matched, and the coarse grains should not exceed half. You can choose several cooking methods, such as boiling porridge with soybean milk machine or beating rice paste, which is beneficial to digestion and absorption. It is also a good choice to make miscellaneous grains steamed bread or hair cake with flour. * * * If there is no problem with blood sugar control in the elderly * * *

Women eat more coarse grains. 3. Young people. This kind of people have strong metabolism and strong digestive function, so they can choose digestible and chewy foods such as starch beans, oats, barley, brown rice, sorghum rice and sweet corn. Because of their relatively high energy consumption, they can also be cooked with peanuts, walnuts and other nuts. Cooking method can be made into coarse grain rice, without pursuing soft glutinous rice.

Women eat more coarse grains. 4. Three-high people who need to control their weight. This group of people are the same as the third group in the choice of ingredients, but do not add nuts, because they have their own needs to control energy. Especially for diabetic patients, cooking miscellaneous grains porridge must not be soft and rotten, otherwise it will be very unfavorable for blood sugar control, and the amount of sweet corn and sweet potato should also be strictly controlled. Of course, you can't eat it just because it is coarse grains, otherwise it will only be counterproductive.

The above are some "stresses" of several groups of people eating coarse grains. In fact, for each of us who eats coarse grains, we should abide by the following two principles: step by step, combining coarse and fine grains, and increasing the amount of drinking water appropriately. Only in this way can coarse grains really protect our health.