How to cook porridge is the real health porridge?
Long-term heat preservation, loss of B vitamins: porridge in porridge shops is mostly made of rice porridge. Cook a lot of rice porridge, then keep it warm in the pot, wait for the arrival of customers at any time, and then mix the rice porridge with the corresponding materials. If the porridge is kept warm for several hours, the vitamin loss will definitely be greater. In order to speed up the porridge cooking, some stores will add alkali to promote the disintegration of starch granules, which will make the loss of B vitamins more serious. Tip: Try to choose miscellaneous grains porridge, because miscellaneous grains are rich in B vitamins. Even if there is a loss, it will be retained because of its large base. In addition, B vitamins are widely found in beans, meat, milk, eggs and other foods. You can drink porridge with some beans or fried eggs. A bowl of salty porridge 3 grams of salt: porridge can be roughly divided into two styles: North and South. In the north, you can eat coarse cereal porridge or bean porridge without salt, and it's up to you whether to put sugar or not. The porridge in the south is basically salty porridge, and the ingredients are all kinds of fish and eggs. The porridge in the north is healthier, neither oily nor salty. Even if vitamins are lost, at least more dietary fiber and minerals can be added, such as red bean porridge, mung bean porridge, eight-treasure porridge, coix seed porridge and five-kernel porridge. Salt is added to the porridge in the south, and even monosodium glutamate is added. According to 300 grams of porridge, a bowl of porridge has 3 grams of salt, which is not suitable for patients with hypertension. Tips: If you are not a diabetic, you can choose some ordinary cereal or sweet porridge, or ask the porridge shop not to add salt or sugar after ordering porridge. If you must drink salty porridge, you should pay attention to the light staple food and side dishes. The problem of stale ingredients: The most important thing in porridge cooking is good raw materials, especially miscellaneous grains, which can bring natural fragrance to porridge. However, when you eat porridge in a porridge shop, you often feel that the freshness of the materials is not enough. This is because all kinds of miscellaneous grains contain grain germ, which contains unsaturated fatty acids and lipoxygenase, which is in danger of fat oxidation, is not resistant to radiation, and is easy to produce stale Chen Fang flavor. Tips: Lotus seed porridge, barley porridge and nut porridge are the most prone to these problems, so be careful when ordering these porridge. If it is not fresh, it must be returned to the store in time. Ice porridge will hurt the stomach: Ice porridge, like other cold foods, may promote gastrointestinal vasoconstriction and affect digestion and absorption. Tip: Don't drink a big bowl of sweet ice porridge just to be greedy and happy. It is better to drink warm porridge. There are many problems in porridge shop. But compared with other fast food, porridge shop has advantages, mainly because the fat intake is relatively low, and there is basically no oil in porridge. At the same time, the porridge shop offers a variety of coarse porridge choices. If you drink porridge at home, you don't need to learn the complicated "preserved egg and lean meat porridge" in the restaurant. Traditional millet porridge is the classic best health porridge. Cooking porridge with the freshest ingredients, the simplest food and the least oil and salt is the real health.