One of the health functions of white rice porridge: sweating and heat dissipation
White rice porridge is easy to digest and nutritious, which is the first choice for baby to add complementary food. When autumn and winter come, babies are prone to catch a cold. At this time, drinking more hot porridge will help to sweat and dissipate heat, dispel wind and cold, and promote the cure of colds.
The second health care function of white rice porridge: warming stomach and strengthening spleen, clearing heat and removing accumulation.
Many mothers often have headaches, and babies don't like to eat. Try to make all kinds of delicious and rich meals to make your baby's appetite open. In fact, many babies' poor appetite after illness is due to weakness of the spleen and stomach, food accumulation or insufficient stomach qi, not because the food is not delicious. Babies with poor appetite caused by weakness of spleen and stomach and insufficient stomach qi after illness are mostly caused by spleen deficiency and weak stomach and long-term or short-term anti-inflammatory drugs stimulation, while white rice porridge is easy to digest and absorb, which can strengthen the spleen and protect the gastric mucosa. So you can use white rice porridge to give your baby an appetizer. When the baby's stomach is full, your appetite will increase. In addition, white rice porridge also has a good effect on poor appetite and constipation caused by food accumulation, which can clear the intestines and heat up food accumulation. It is no exaggeration to say that from the beginning of adding complementary food, white rice porridge should be the food that often accompanies the baby.
Eating white rice porridge in the morning and evening is most suitable for eating white rice porridge, and it is also quite time-sensitive. It is best to drink white rice porridge on an empty stomach in the morning. After getting up in the morning, a bowl of hot porridge can not only cheer up the stomach after a night's rest, but also not bring too much burden to the spleen and stomach. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, "Porridge Record" says: "Eat a big bowl of porridge every day, and make it weak on an empty stomach. The tonic is not fine, but it is soft and greasy, and it complements the stomach. It is also the most wonderful way to eat. " So mothers don't have to worry about how to make a big breakfast for their babies and the whole family. A bowl of ordinary white rice porridge can take care of the needs of the whole family.
In fact, it is not only porridge in the morning, but also porridge at night. Ding, a beginner, is famous for keeping in good health. He advocates eating "night porridge", which is more beneficial to health than eating and drinking. In Rugao, Jiangsu, known as the hometown of longevity, the local eating habit is to drink porridge in the morning and evening. Many health experts especially suggest that you should drink more porridge in spring, from beginning of spring to the vernal equinox, and drink some porridge on an empty stomach every morning, which can not only protect the yang, but also dispel the evil accumulated in winter.
Tips for cooking porridge It is best to soak rice for a while before cooking porridge. Adding a few drops of sesame oil when soaking can make the rice more cooked and rotten. Add enough water to cook porridge every time. According to the ratio of rice to water, different kinds of porridge can be cooked. The most basic rice porridge, so-called whole wheat porridge, the ratio of rice to water is1:5; The rice-water ratio of seven-part porridge with more moisture is 1: 7, and that of smooth five-part porridge is 1: 10. It is best to cook porridge in casserole. When cooking, use high fire first, and then cook slowly with low fire until the rice melts. In the process of cooking porridge, you can put two iron spoons in the pot, which can prevent porridge from boiling over and prevent nutrition porridge oil from escaping.
Three common misunderstandings of baby eating white rice porridge do not add indigestible grains.
Some mothers add other grains to white rice porridge to make it more nutritious. Need to be reminded that rice is the best porridge in autumn and winter. Because rice tastes sweet and flat, other rice, such as millet and coix seed, are sweet and slightly cold foods, which are not suitable for autumn and winter. Also like corn, the fiber is thick, and the baby who just started eating complementary food is not easy to digest, but it increases the burden on the stomach.
You shouldn't add strong food. Some mothers think that white rice porridge tastes weak, and they are afraid that the baby will not like it, so they add sugar or broth to taste. Chinese medicine usually classifies meat, sweets, fried and smoked foods as thick-flavored foods; And think that if the five flavors are slightly weak, they can nourish people and make them feel refreshed; It is slightly thicker than its internal organs, and each has its own injuries. To make the baby develop the habit of light diet, porridge should not add too much and too heavy essence.
Do not eat rice oil and milk powder together. After the porridge is cooked, a fine, sticky and ointment-like substance floats on it. It is called rice oil in Chinese medicine, commonly known as porridge oil. Its nourishing effect is no less than ginseng, and its nourishing effect is no less than cultivated land. Zhao Xuemin's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Qing Dynasty recorded that people who eat rice oil and are black and thin will be fat and white within a hundred days. Therefore, porridge oil is the best choice for babies who have just added complementary food. Some mothers think that feeding their babies nutritious rice soup and milk powder will play a icing on the cake. This is not appropriate. The nutritional components of rice soup and milk powder are similar. For example, lipoxygenase in rice soup will destroy vitamin A in milk and should be eaten separately.