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What are the types of coarse grains?
Coarse grains are mainly divided into three categories: grains, miscellaneous beans and potatoes.

I. Cereals

1, corn

Corn contains more linoleic acid, vitamins, cellulose and minerals, especially magnesium and selenium, which has comprehensive health care functions. Corn contains a longevity factor-glutathione, which can produce glutathione oxidase with the participation of selenium, and has anti-aging and anti-aging effects.

2. Purple rice

It is different from ordinary rice in that its seed coat has a thin layer of purple substance. Purple rice is very fragrant and glutinous when cooking. As a tonic, it is called purple glutinous rice or "medicine valley". The rice porridge boiled with purple rice is fragrant, shiny, soft and delicious. Because of its rich nutrition and good nourishing effect, it is called "blood-enriching rice" and "longevity rice".

3.sorghum

Sorghum is sweet and warm, and has the function of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach. For children with indigestion, it is advisable to fry sorghum in a pot, shell it and grind it into powder, taking 2 ~ 3 grams each time. However, sorghum is warm and contains tannic acid with astringent and antidiarrheal effects, which is not suitable for constipation.

4. Oats

Oats contain linoleic acid, which is equivalent to 10 "maitong" in 50 grams of oats, so oats can inhibit the increase of cholesterol. It is reported that a related study in the United States confirmed that eating 60 grams of oats every day can reduce cholesterol by an average of 3%.

5. Buckwheat

Buckwheat contains rutin, which can reduce cholesterol in human blood and protect blood vessels. Nepalese at the southern foot of the Himalayas not only eat a lot of buckwheat noodles, but also eat the tender stems and leaves of buckwheat, and local residents rarely suffer from hypertension.

Second, miscellaneous beans

1, soybean

Soybean and its products have special effects on cardiovascular system. Regular consumption of soybean food can effectively reduce serum cholesterol and help reduce the damage of arterial wall. Some scholars have found that soybeans soaked in vinegar can be used to treat hypertension and obesity. Because the saponin in soybean can eliminate the fat attached to the blood vessel wall and reduce the cholesterol content in blood.

2. Black beans

Black beans are called "kidney valley". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening body, detoxifying and moistening skin, and has a good therapeutic effect on kidney deficiency and edema.

3. Mung beans

When autumn is dry, people tend to become impatient, so it is necessary to clear the heart and reduce fire while replenishing water. Mung beans clear away heat and relieve summer heat and induce diuresis. It has the effects of improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure, moistening throat and quenching thirst, and is beneficial to eliminating heatstroke, food poisoning and dysuria.

Third, tubers

1, sweet potato,

Sweet potato is delicious and cheap, longevity food. Its taste is sweet and cool, it can promote the production of body fluid to quench thirst, moisten the lungs and smooth the intestines, strengthen the spleen and regulate the stomach, dredge the stool, and also has anti-cancer effects. Sweet potato is a low-calorie and low-fat food, and it can also prevent carbohydrates from being converted into fat. Eating in autumn can play a role in losing weight.

2. Chinese yam

Tuber is a commonly used Chinese medicine "yam", which is rich in starch and can be eaten as a vegetable. Taking medicine can clear away heat and toxic materials, replenish spleen and stomach loss, and treat qi deficiency, dyspepsia, nocturnal emission, enuresis and nameless swelling.

Step 3: potatoes

Potato tuber contains a lot of starch. Starch is the main energy source of edible potato. —— Generally, early-maturing potatoes contain starch 1 1% ~ 14%, middle and late-maturing potatoes contain starch 14% ~ 20%, and the tuber of high-starch varieties can reach more than 25%. Tubers also contain glucose, fructose and sucrose.

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