What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating millet porridge? There are many kinds of porridge in daily life. Among them, millet porridge is a common health porridge. It is delicious and nutritious, and many people like it. So what are the benefits of eating millet porridge? Let's have a look!
What are the benefits of eating millet porridge? 1 1, the benefits of millet porridge
Benefit 1: Relieve postprandial blood sugar
Millet is rich in dietary fiber and trace element zinc, which is beneficial to relieve postprandial blood sugar. It is a good substitute for rice.
In 2009, it was published in "Biological Science, Biotechnology and Biochemistry" to study millet's diet on animals. Within three weeks, it reduced blood sugar and triglyceride levels and increased adiponectin levels. Millet also increased the level of high density lipoprotein. The researchers concluded that millet may help to control insulin resistance and cardiovascular diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Benefit 2: tonify the spleen and stomach
The effect of millet, as Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica, is to "treat nausea and diarrhea, tonify deficiency and open the stomach". In fact, whether it is nausea, heat dysentery or physical weakness, it is related to the poor function of the spleen and stomach, so the main function of millet is to replenish the spleen and stomach.
Why can millet make up the spleen and stomach? We usually say that sweet taste enters the spleen and yellow taste enters the spleen. In terms of five colors, millet is yellow, and in terms of taste, millet is sweet and salty, so Chinese medicine says that millet can "warm the stomach". Mainly for this reason, women in the north don't eat meat when giving birth and confinement, and mainly eat millet porridge.
Benefit 3: Help sleep.
The content of tryptophan in millet is the highest in cereals, and tryptophan can regulate sleep. Chinese medicine believes that millet can enhance the function of small intestine and has the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. Therefore, millet as a diet and health care product to soothe the nerves and help sleep is still very troublesome to eat. For those insomnia caused by poor gastrointestinal tract, its curative effect is not comparable to that of sleeping pills. Many Chinese medicine practitioners often let patients use millet gruel instead of sleeping pills.
2, recommend millet recipes
There are three ways to eat millet: one is to cook porridge, the other is to cook rice, and the third is to grind it into millet flour and steam it. These three ways of eating have their own tastes, but cooking porridge is the best. It can be mixed with various coarse grains to make porridge with different flavors, which has good nutritional and medicinal effects.
1, millet and mung bean porridge
Methods: Soak a proper amount of rice, millet and mung bean (the ratio of millet to rice is 2: 1, and there are as many mung beans as millet) in water for one night in advance; Soak millet and rice in water for 30 minutes in advance. After the water is boiled, pour in the drained rice and then the drained millet. After the millet and rice are boiled again, pour in the drained mung beans. Turn the heat down and cook slowly. Millet, rice and mung beans will bloom and porridge will become sticky.
2, millet mushroom porridge
Methods: 50 grams of millet, 50 grams of mushrooms and 5 grams of chicken's gizzard-membrane. Wash millet and mushrooms, cut into small pieces or slices, and wash chicken's gizzard-membrane. Put the pot on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, add millet and chicken gizzard-membrane, and cook porridge with slow fire. Cook mushrooms until they are cooked, and eat them several times.
3. Millet and egg porridge
Method: Appropriate amount of millet, three quail eggs, carrots, rape, a little salt and olive oil. Wash carrots and rape, wash millet and put it in a pot, and break quail eggs for later use. Dice the sterilized carrot and rape. When the millet porridge is cooked to 8% maturity, add the broken quail eggs, carrots and diced rape. Add some salt and olive oil when cooking.
3. Making skills of millet porridge
Actually, cooking porridge is not that simple. It is not that you can make delicious millet porridge drops by putting water and rice together. Here are some tips for cooking millet porridge:
1, you should choose fresh millet instead of old rice, the taste will be much worse.
2, time must be enough, at least half an hour or more.
3, can't be lazy, just turn the wok at any time to prevent the bottom of the pot from being burnt. Once the bottom is burnt, this pot of porridge will be useless. Open the lid as little as possible when simmering.
4, put enough water in the pot, do not add water in the middle, boil.
5. Cook for more than half an hour, and add a little edible alkali to increase the viscosity and make it easier to cook, but the taste of millet porridge with edible alkali will be affected. (Not recommended for pregnant women and babies)
6. When rice is in flower shape, it is more delicious.
What are the benefits of eating millet porridge? 2. The efficacy and function of millet porridge.
1, millet porridge can regulate the spleen and stomach.
Millet porridge has obvious conditioning effect on human spleen and stomach, it can nourish and nourish blood, improve gastric function, repair damaged gastric mucosa, promote gastric juice secretion, and has a good conditioning effect on human dyspepsia, abdominal distension and diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
2, millet porridge can be antibacterial.
Millet porridge is a healthy porridge boiled with millet, which has a good inhibitory effect on a variety of germs in the human body. Usually, people can eliminate bad breath after eating it, and can also relieve many bad symptoms, such as neuritis, headache and mental weakness. In addition, millet gruel can soothe the nerves, regulate nerves and prevent people from insomnia, anxiety and depression.
3, millet porridge can promote the healthy development of the fetus.
Millet porridge contains a certain amount of folic acid and multivitamins, which is most suitable for pregnant women. After being eaten by pregnant women, it can promote the healthy development of the fetus and prevent the occurrence of fetal mental retardation and dwarfism. In addition, there are some amino acids in millet porridge, which have certain anti-abortion effect, and pregnant women can protect their babies if they eat it regularly.
Xiaomi is a kind of food that people often eat, but when people buy Xiaomi in the market, they find that there is a food that is particularly similar to Xiaomi, that is, rice. The appearance of rice and millet are bright yellow and small particles, but we can find the difference between them by careful understanding. Next, I will show you the difference between rice and millet, so that you can know more about the efficacy and function of rice.
What are the benefits of eating millet porridge? 3 1. Efficacy and function of millet porridge.
Millet, that is, millet, can stimulate appetite, tonify deficiency and benefit the abdomen. It can be used for nourishing people with deficiency of qi and blood, physical weakness and loss of appetite. It is suitable for fatigue, listlessness and poor diet caused by hypogalactia and postpartum weakness, and can be eaten as breakfast. Millet porridge in winter and spring is more suitable for lying-in women. Many women in northern China have a tradition of adding millet and brown sugar to regulate their health after giving birth.
Millet contains a variety of vitamins, amino acids, fats and carbohydrates, and has high nutritional value. Every 100g of millet contains 9.7g of protein and 3.5g of fat, which is not lower than that of rice and wheat. Generally, there is no carotene in cereals, but the content of millet is 0. 12 mg per 100 g, and the content of vitamin B 1 ranks first among all cereals. The sugar content of millet is also very high, 72.8 grams per 100 grams, and the heat output is much higher than that of rice. In addition, millet is rich in vitamin B 1. B2, etc. It also has the function of preventing indigestion and aphtha.
Therefore, millet can be said to be the most ideal tonic for old, weak, sick and disabled pregnant women. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that Xiaomi "treats nausea and dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits farmland, supplements deficiency and opens the stomach". Chinese medicine also says that millet is "warm in the stomach" and thinks that millet is sweet and salty, and has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, invigorating stomach and removing dampness, calming the heart and calming the nerves. It is more suitable for people with internal heat and weak spleen and stomach. Some people have a bad appetite. After eating millet, it can stimulate appetite, nourish stomach, strengthen stomach, promote digestion and prevent nausea and vomiting.
Under the pressure of work, modern people's stomach discomfort has become a common problem. When eating, loss of appetite has become the mantra of many people, and various drugs that help digestion and increase gastric motility are popular in TV advertisements. In fact, there is a kind of stomach-nourishing food which is the greenest and has the least side effects, and that is millet.
Millet can relieve bad breath and reduce the growth of bacteria in the mouth. Millet is rich in amino acids, which can resist bacteria and prevent female genital inflammation. Millet is rich in nutrition, among which tryptophan ranks first among cereals, and tryptophan has the function of regulating sleep. Drinking millet porridge before going to bed can make people sleep well.
2. The best combination of millet porridge
Millet and naked oats should be eaten together, and the combination of the two can enhance the intake of multiple vitamins and minerals, which is beneficial to obesity, diabetes and weight loss.
Millet should be eaten with soybeans. Carotenoids in millet can be converted into vitamin A, which works with soybean isoflavones and is beneficial to patients with diabetes complicated with eye diseases.
Eating millet with oats can increase the intake of various vitamins and minerals, which is not only beneficial to losing weight, but also suitable for patients with heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.
Millet should be eaten with soybeans. Carotenoids in millet can be converted into vitamin A and isoflavones in soybean, which can protect eyes and moisturize skin.
Millet should be eaten with carrots, both of which contain carotenoids, which can be converted into vitamin A in the body, helping to protect eyes, nourish skin and delay aging.
Millet and longan should be eaten together, and a little brown sugar can enrich the blood, nourish the face, soothe the nerves and improve intelligence. It is suitable for deficiency of both heart and spleen, deficiency of qi and blood, insomnia, forgetfulness and fright.
Millet should be eaten with mushrooms, and the combination of them with porridge is of great benefit to the stomach. It is suitable for people with qi deficiency and less food, and has the effect of appetizing and helping food.
3. Skills of cooking millet porridge
Cooking millet porridge is generally carried out according to the rice-water ratio of 1: 15. Four bowls of sticky millet porridge can cook100g of millet at a time. There are also various practices of millet porridge, such as cooking porridge, cooking rice, cooking rice or making porridge with different flavors from various coarse grains. Millet porridge has high nutritional value and is rich in vitamins and trace elements.
1, soaking: soak the rice in cold water for half an hour before cooking porridge to make the rice grains swell. The advantages of this are: 1 Cooking porridge saves time; 2 it will turn in one direction when stirring; The porridge cooked is crispy and delicious.
2, boiling water: everyone's common sense is cold water to cook porridge, the real expert is boiling water to cook porridge. Why? You must have had the experience of cooking porridge in cold water, right? Boiling water in a pot will not have this phenomenon, and it will save more time than boiling porridge with cold water.
3, heating: first boil with a large fire, and then turn to a small fire, that is, simmer for about 30 minutes. Don't underestimate the change of fire, the fragrance of porridge is emitted from it!
4, stirring: It turns out that we cook porridge or stir, because we are afraid of porridge paste. Now you don't have to worry about cooking porridge in cold water. Why stir it? In order to "thicken", that is, to make the rice grains full and crisp. The skill of stirring is: stir a few times when boiling water enters the pot, cover the pot and simmer for 20 minutes, then start stirring continuously for about 10 minutes until it is crisp and thick.
5, point oil: Do you want to put oil in the porridge? Yes, add a little cooking oil about 10 minutes after the porridge is changed to slow fire, and you will find that the porridge is not only bright in color, but also fresh and smooth in mouth.