The truth-"Soaking rice leads to indigestion and malnutrition" is unfounded.

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Soaking rice is the favorite of many people, and it is also the favorite of lazy people. Indeed, soup soaked in rice is convenient and delicious to cook, and it is also a good way to deal with leftovers. But according to rumors, in the eyes of some nutrition experts, soup and rice are like a scourge of gastrointestinal health.

Even nutritionists' suggestions are doubtful: human beings have experienced hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, eaten countless coarse and indigestible foods, and can eat fine and digestible rice for thousands of years, which is just a moment compared with the whole human history. Is it that after eating for thousands of years, people's stomachs are too weak to digest soup and rice?

To solve this mystery, it is necessary to see what scientists say. Regrettably, soup and rice in soup, which are popular among the broad masses of people, do not seem to be favored by scientists. As far as I know, there is no literature about the influence of soup and rice on the digestive system. Fortunately, scientists have a more mature view on the relationship between two diseases related to rumors: functional dyspepsia and malnutrition and food.

Functional malnutrition-correlation ≠ causality

Functional dyspepsia is a functional gastrointestinal disease. Functional gastroenteropathy is a digestive tract disease whose cause is difficult to find (the whole digestive tract from esophagus to anus). Can't find the reason, that is, scientists can't say what the reason is. Food may or may not be related to the disease.

Scientists in clinical medical college found that the nutritional components of most foods have no obvious correlation with functional gastrointestinal diseases, and no food can be called the "culprit" of functional gastrointestinal diseases. The daily intake of lipids of patients is slightly higher than that of normal people, while the intake of carbohydrates is slightly lower, but the difference is not significant. Although the main population of this study is westerners, it can also give us some hints: soup and soaked rice are unlikely to cause indigestion.