Millet porridge is mainly made of millet. Millet was called "millet" in ancient times. Millet has round or oval seeds. It is called "millet" in the north, and it is called "millet" after peeling. It is a dual-purpose product of medicine and food, salty in taste, slightly cold in nature and non-toxic, and enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it "nourishes kidney qi, eliminates the heat of spleen and stomach, and benefits qi", and "Dantian uses it to cook porridge well, which can make up deficiency and open the stomach".

Modern nutrition believes that millet is rich in vitamins and minerals, which has energy supply and health care functions. People often cook porridge with millet in their lives, which is very easy to digest and can effectively protect the health of the gastrointestinal tract. In addition to promoting digestion, the functions and functions of millet gruel include:

1, invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach, millet porridge has high nutritional value, and the boiled millet porridge will have a layer of porridge oil or rice oil on the upper layer, which can protect the gastric mucosa and prevent the irritation of spicy food to the gastric mucosa, and is suitable for some patients with gastric diseases such as chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer.

2, promote digestion, in cereals, the content of dietary fiber and vitamin B family of millet should be the highest, dietary fiber can absorb water after eating, and promote the secretion of gastric acid, promote the digestion and absorption of food, and dietary fiber can also promote intestinal peristalsis, reduce the residence time of food in the intestine, and promote the discharge of feces;

3, nourishing yin, millet has the effect of nourishing yin, so in northern China, millet porridge and a little brown sugar are used to nurse the mother and help the mother recover her physical strength. At the same time, millet also contains a lot of amino acids, which can protect the fetus and has a strong antibacterial effect, and has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as vaginal inflammation in women;

4, blood, millet contains a lot of iron, which is a very good iron supplement food. Eating millet porridge can supplement iron for the body to a certain extent, promote the synthesis of hemoglobin in the body, promote blood production and prevent iron deficiency anemia;

5. Sleeping millet porridge contains a lot of amino acids, among which tryptophan has the function of regulating sleep, and the tryptophan content in millet ranks first in cereals. Eating millet porridge can make people sleep well and ensure the quality of sleep;

6, eyesight, millet porridge contains a lot of vitamin A that is not contained in cereals, which can promote the synthesis of rhodopsin in the eyes, enhance the dark adaptation ability of the eyes, and at the same time have the effect of eyesight.

7, beauty beauty, millet contains a lot of vitamin E, which is four times that of rice. Long-term consumption of millet porridge can have the effect of beauty beauty.

Millet porridge is suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and heat, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, indigestion and postpartum weakness. Although millet contains a lot of protein, the amino acid composition of protein is not comprehensive, and the content of lysine is a little low, but the content of leucine is high. Therefore, millet porridge can not be eaten as a single staple food for a long time, but should be matched with other staple foods and cereals to avoid nutritional deficiency.

Note that people with qi stagnation and weak constitution should not eat it, let alone eat it for a long time.