About rice:
1, Chinese medicine believes that rice is sweet and flat, which is beneficial to essence, heart strengthening, regulating five internal organs, dredging blood vessels, hearing, improving eyesight, relieving annoyance, quenching thirst and diarrhea. Known as the "head of the five grains", it is the main grain crop in China, accounting for about a quarter of the cultivated area of grain crops. Half of the world's population lives on rice. Famous rice brands: Wuchang rice, Zheng Lun rice, Northeast rice, Thai fragrant rice, Longfeng rice, Fulinmen, Wuhu, Gongjing No.1 and Yuanyang rice.
2, rice, into the spleen, stomach, lung meridian, has the function of replenishing middle energizer, strengthening spleen and stomach, nourishing yin and moistening lung, and removing polydipsia. Ancient health experts also advocated "morning porridge" to produce fluid. Therefore, patients with cough and constipation caused by lung yin deficiency can cook porridge with rice in the morning and evening. Drinking rice porridge often contributes to the growth of body fluid and can relieve discomfort such as dry skin to some extent. If you add some pears when cooking porridge, the health care effect of traditional Chinese medicine will be better.
3. Among rice proteins, alkali-soluble glutenin with high lysine content accounts for 80%, and the lysine content is higher than other grains, and the amino acid composition ratio is reasonable, which is close to the best amino acid ratio model in protein recognized by the World Health Organization. The biological value (BV value) of rice in protein is 77, and the utilization rate (PER value) of rice in protein is 2.2 (1.5 for wheat and 1.65438 for corn). The digestibility of protein is over 90%, which is higher than other cereals, so the nutritional value of rice protein is high.
4, rice efficacy Although the content of various nutrients in rice is not very high, because people eat more, it also has high nutritional efficacy and is a basic food for supplementing nutrients. Rice porridge has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach and clearing lung heat. Rice soup has the functions of benefiting qi, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, and its taste is sweet and flat, which is beneficial to the development and health of infants. It can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion, promote the absorption of fat, and promote casein in milk powder to form loose and soft small clots, which are easy to digest and absorb. Therefore, it is ideal to make milk powder with rice soup or to give infants an auxiliary diet.