The biggest advantage of black rice is that it doesn't need to be finely processed like the white rice we eat every day. Generally, black rice is used directly as brown rice after hulling. Therefore, black rice is rich in more nutrients, such as rich vitamin B family, rich dietary fiber and mineral components.
It is recorded in ancient books that black rice is rich in efficacy, which can nourish yin and kidney, warm the body and nourish the stomach, improve eyesight and promote blood circulation, clear the liver and moisten the intestines. Because it warms the stomach and promotes blood circulation, in ancient times, many pregnant women used black rice to nourish their bodies after giving birth, so black rice was also called blood-enriching rice. Ancient emperors regarded black rice as a treasure, which was a health-preserving Gong Mi.
Black rice contains higher inorganic salts, such as manganese, zinc and copper, which is 3 times higher than that of ordinary white rice1~, and is also rich in vitamin C. Black rice has more nutrients and better protein content than rice. The content of zinc is dominant in cereals, which is beneficial to growth and development and avoids the long-term difficulty of wound healing.
Extended information: introduction of black rice:
1. Black rice is a processed product of black rice, belonging to indica rice or japonica rice. It is a characteristic variety formed by long-term cultivation of Gramineae rice. The appearance of black rice grains is rectangular, the rice husk is grayish brown, and the grain types are indica rice and japonica rice. Black rice is non-waxy rice.
2. Black rice is black or dark brown, with rich nutrition and high edible and medicinal value. In addition to cooking porridge, it can also make all kinds of nutritious food and wine, which is known as "black pearl" and "king of rice in the world". Black rice in Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province is the most representative, and it has been called "medicinal rice", "Gong Mi" and "longevity rice" since ancient times.
3. Black rice and purple rice are precious varieties in rice. Main nutrients (brown rice): based on dry matter, it contains crude protein 8.0- 12.5%, crude fat 2.7-3.8%, carbohydrate 75-84% and crude ash 1.7-2%.
4. Rice porridge boiled with black rice is fragrant and shiny, soft and delicious, rich in nutrition and good in nourishing effect, so it is called "blood-enriching rice" and "longevity rice". There is a folk saying in China that "everything must be compensated". There is also the effect of blackening hair.
5. Black rice has many physiological functions, such as scavenging free radicals, improving iron deficiency anemia, resisting stress reaction, and regulating immunity. ? Flavonoids in black rice can maintain the normal osmotic pressure of blood vessels, reduce the fragility of blood vessels, prevent the rupture of blood vessels and stop bleeding. Black rice has antibacterial, blood pressure lowering and cancer cell growth inhibiting effects. Black rice can also improve myocardial nutrition and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption.
6. Black rice is not as refined as white rice, and it is often eaten directly in the form of brown rice after hulling. This thick black rice is suitable for cooking porridge. Soak the porridge before cooking, so that the water can be fully absorbed. The water used for soaking rice should be boiled with rice to retain its nutrients. It can also be made into snacks, jiaozi, zongzi, bread, etc.
7. Chinese medicine believes that black rice has the effects of strengthening the body, warming the stomach, improving eyesight and promoting blood circulation, clearing the liver and moistening the intestines, eliminating dampness and replenishing essence, nourishing the lungs and relaxing muscles and tendons. Can be used as medicine, and has particularly good curative effect on dizziness, anemia, gray hair, soreness of waist and knees, night blindness and tinnitus. Long-term consumption can prolong life. Therefore, people commonly call it "medicated rice" and "longevity rice". Because it is most suitable for pregnant women and parturients to replenish blood, it is also called "moon rice" and "blood rice". Emperors of past dynasties also regarded it as the treasure of palace health preservation and called it "Gong Mi".
8. Modern medicine has proved that black rice has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, invigorating spleen and warming liver, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, benefiting qi and promoting blood circulation, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. Regular consumption of black rice is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of dizziness, anemia, gray hair, eye diseases, soreness of waist and knees, lung dryness and cough, constipation, dysuria, kidney deficiency and edema, loss of appetite, weakness of spleen and stomach, etc.
9. Because the nutrients contained in black rice are mostly concentrated in the black cortex, it is not suitable for finishing. It is best to eat brown rice or standard third-class rice. According to nutrition expert Li, the vigor index of black rice is 7.702 1, and the food disease prevention index is 36.05, which has strong health care function.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia Black Rice