Also known as japonica rice, it tastes sweet and flat, and has the effects of tonifying the middle warmer, strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, and removing polydipsia. In winter, indoor heating is hot and air is dry. Drinking rice porridge in the morning and evening can keep you away from the troubles of dry mouth.

In particular, people with diabetes need to be reminded that different cooking methods of rice have different effects on blood sugar. Studies have shown that dry rice cooked with the same amount of rice has less influence on blood sugar than porridge. Therefore, it is beneficial to control blood sugar for diabetic patients to eat dry rice for breakfast.

2. Xiaomi

Millet, also known as millet, has the function of strengthening the spleen and stomach. Deficiency heat of spleen and stomach, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, postpartum and post-illness weakness can be eaten. When millet cooks porridge, it will be covered with a very fine sticky substance called "rice oil". Chinese medicine believes that rice oil is extremely rich in nutrition and has the strongest nourishing power, and there is a saying that "rice oil can replace ginseng soup".

3. Wheat

Wheat is sweet, flat and slightly cold, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, nourishing heart and calming nerves. People who are upset and insomnia can cook porridge with wheat, rice and jujube. In addition, wheat bran contains high dietary fiber, which can prevent and treat hyperlipidemia, diabetes, atherosclerosis, hemorrhoids, senile constipation and colon cancer.

4. Corn

Sweet in taste and flat in nature, it has the functions of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, stimulating appetite and improving intelligence, calming the heart and promoting blood circulation. Linoleic acid in corn oil can prevent cholesterol from depositing on blood vessel wall, which has a positive effect on preventing hypertension and coronary heart disease.

In addition, it also has diuretic and hypoglycemic effects, especially suitable for diabetic patients. American scientists also found that eating corn can stimulate brain cells and enhance human memory. Lutein and zeaxanthin contained in corn can prevent macular degeneration in the eyes of the elderly.

5. Coix seed

The protein content of Coix seed is much higher than that of rice and flour, and it is easily digested and absorbed, which plays a certain role in reducing the burden on the stomach and strengthening the physique. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coix seed is sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature, and has the functions of invigorating spleen, tonifying lung, clearing heat and promoting diuresis.

The above is a detailed introduction of what miscellaneous grains we eat in autumn, because there are more patients with hypertension or hyperglycemia. If they eat too much rice, their blood sugar will rise, especially in autumn, so they try to eat miscellaneous grains as a staple food.

Skills of eating whole grains in autumn

1, and the daily consumption accounts for about 1/3 of the staple food.

Eating less coarse grains cannot prevent health care functions such as chronic diseases. However, coarse grains contain more dietary fiber and phytic acid, which will affect the absorption of minerals such as calcium and iron for a long time and reduce human immunity.

Therefore, experts suggest that it is best to eat 50 ~ 100 grams of coarse grains every day. It is more appropriate for healthy adults to eat 1/3 of the total staple food every day.

2. Cook in a pressure cooker to protect nutrition

Dark coarse grains such as red beans, mung beans and black rice are rich in antioxidant components, which can help the human body to scavenge free radicals and resist aging.

Cooking in pressure cooker can avoid food from being exposed to too much oxygen, which is very beneficial to preserve valuable antioxidant components in coarse grains, such as polyphenols.

Foreign studies have also confirmed that cooking will reduce the antioxidant capacity of beans, but cooking beans in a pressure cooker can reduce the loss of antioxidant substances at the same softness.

3. Adjust varieties according to their own physique.

Oats are rich in soluble dietary fiber and are suitable for people with hyperlipidemia and obesity. Red beans and barley are suitable for people with edema constitution.

People with hot constitution can eat more cold and wet miscellaneous grains such as mung beans and buckwheat; Those with cold constitution should choose sorghum, adzuki bean and glutinous rice isothermal miscellaneous grains; People with a bad stomach can choose millet, rhubarb rice and brown rice, which are easy to digest when cooked into porridge.

4. Special people should carefully make coarse grains.

Old people, children with immature digestive system or women with low immunity, because of weak digestion and absorption function, eating too much coarse grains will increase the burden on the stomach and hinder the absorption and utilization of other nutrients.

For this kind of people, in addition to choosing digestible coarse grains such as millet and rhubarb rice, and appropriately reducing the amount of coarse grains, we can also improve the absorption rate by improving cooking methods, such as cooking porridge soft and sticky and grinding coarse grains.

It should be reminded that for diabetic patients, the softer the porridge, the faster the postprandial blood sugar rises.

Matters needing attention in autumn diet

1, autumn diet should prevent dryness and protect yin, nourish kidney and moisten lung.

Autumn is the harvest season, and there are many kinds of vegetables and fruits in the market. People should eat soft products, such as peanuts, loach, white duck, shad, yam, tremella, orange, ginkgo, pear, red dates, lotus seeds, grapes and sugar cane. Dry autumn is prone to dry skin, chapped skin, angular stomatitis and other symptoms. At this time, you should drink more boiled water, light tea, soybean milk, milk and honey.

2, autumn tonic should nourish yin and moisten dryness.

In autumn, people will feel dry mouth and nose, sore throat and chapped skin, which shows that dryness consumes body fluid and is harmful. Nourishing body fluid is a common tonic in autumn. When autumn dryness causes lung deficiency, lily, coix seed, yam and honey can be used to replenish lung qi; In the case of lung yin deficiency syndrome, walnut kernel, Euryale ferox, Sydney, lotus root juice, milk, hemp seed, sea cucumber, pigskin and chicken can be used to nourish stomach yin, liver and kidney respectively.

3. Autumn diet should have the function of "keeping out the cold"

In autumn, especially in late autumn, when the weather gets cold, people can increase the supply of heat energy through diet and eat more foods rich in high protein, vitamins, trace elements and digestible foods such as chicken, fish, meat, eggs, bean products, fresh vegetables, fruits and dried fruits. Fourth, pay attention to disease prevention in autumn diet.

The cool weather in autumn greatly increases people's appetite. Overeating makes the gastrointestinal burden increase and the function is disordered, especially in autumn when the temperature difference between day and night is large, and it is easy to cause gastrointestinal diseases after the abdomen catches cold. Therefore, we should pay attention to food hygiene and control "oral diseases". In addition, the autumn climate is cool, the taste is enhanced, overeating and sweat secretion are reduced, and obesity should be prevented.