The elderly have poor gastrointestinal function, are prone to constipation, and have an increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and tumors. Eating more coarse grains is good for your health. Studies have shown that eating 85 grams or more of coarse grains every day can reduce the risk of chronic diseases and help control weight. However, the more is not the better. Too much coarse grains can also cause problems. Excessive dietary fiber will increase the burden of gastrointestinal tract and affect the absorption of some nutrients. Therefore, it is suggested that the elderly should eat 50 ~100g of coarse grains every day, or 75 ~100g two or three times a week, which is beneficial to regulating gastrointestinal function.

Second, old people with bad stomachs eat more soft food.

The diet of the elderly with poor stomach should be steamed and boiled to make rice and porridge, avoiding steaming (that is, steaming after abandoning rice soup) and reducing the loss of B vitamins. Flour is generally made into pasta by steaming, boiling, branding and other processes, and the temperature should be prevented from being too high during the production process. Among coarse grains or coarse grains, brown rice with germ is the most suitable for cooking porridge; Sorghum rice can be ground into powder for snacks; Coix seed is not suitable for eating alone. Chicken legs, tomatoes and coix seed can be stewed together, which is not only easy to digest, but also nutritious. Buckwheat can be made into noodles, steamed bread, pancakes and porridge. Soak oats, black glutinous rice, long glutinous rice, brown rice, white rice, soybeans, soybeans, lotus seeds, coix seed, red beans, etc. Soak them in water for an hour and then cook them. This kind of food can reduce the burden on the stomach and improve its ability to absorb nutrients.

Third, elderly people with bad stomachs should eat less flatulence food.

Beans contain oligosaccharides, which are fermented by intestinal bacteria to produce gas, which can cause indigestion symptoms such as burping, bowel sounds, abdominal distension and abdominal pain. Therefore, the elderly should be properly processed when eating beans to make them soft and easy to digest; It can be processed into bean products such as bean curd, soybean milk, dried bean curd, bean sprouts, stewed beans, etc. (such as pig's trotter snow bean soup and pumpkin mung bean soup), which is helpful to soften dietary fiber in beans and remove anti-nutritional factors. Red beans are made into bean paste stuffing, or mixed with flour to make snacks, noodles and various snacks. Cooking porridge with cereals after soaking can improve the nutritional value of food and promote the digestion and absorption function of intestine through protein complementation.