The original intention of eight-treasure porridge is to cook porridge with eight different raw materials. But today. There are more than eight kinds of eight-treasure porridge materials. Eight-treasure porridge usually uses japonica rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice as the main material, and adds auxiliary materials, such as mung beans, red beans, lentils, white lentils, red dates, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan, pine nuts, yams, lilies, medlar, gordon euryales and coix seed.
nutritive value
The selection characteristics of eight-treasure porridge determine that eight-treasure porridge is rich in nutrition and comprehensive. No food in the world contains all the nutrients the human body needs. In addition to rice or glutinous rice, eight-treasure porridge also includes millet, beans, walnuts, peanuts, red dates, longan, lotus seeds, yam and medlar, which is a typical application of protein complementation in food. Cereals lack lysine, while beans have higher lysine content.
Millet contains more leucine, and various nuts are rich in essential fatty acids, various trace elements and vitamins. The selected traditional Chinese medicines are also medicinal materials with nourishing and conditioning functions. Mixed cereals porridge can give full play to the complementary role of amino acids, learn from each other's strengths and improve the utilization rate of protein.