On Laba Festival, many places have the custom of eating Laba porridge to worship ancestors and gods and pray for good harvest and good luck. The content of Laba porridge is often eclectic, because it can be cooked with eight things in combination with the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, but how to use ingredients actually contains the truth of Chinese medicine.

Cereals: japonica rice, glutinous rice, coix seed, play with three kinds of rice.

The most basic of a bowl of porridge is cereal, and Laba porridge is usually made of japonica rice, glutinous rice and barley. Among them, japonica rice has the functions of tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the spleen and stomach, relieving vexation, quenching thirst and benefiting essence. Used for spleen and stomach weakness, polydipsia, malnutrition, weakness after illness, etc.

If you sweat at ordinary times, you can add glutinous rice to the porridge, which can replenish the middle jiao, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, and stop sweating. If you add coix seed, health care will be more meaningful, because coix seed has the functions of strengthening the spleen, clearing away heat and infiltrating dampness, and has a good effect on chronic enteritis, indigestion and other diseases.

Beans: red beans are the main force, and soybeans increase nutrition.

According to ancient records, the earliest Laba porridge was boiled with red beans. After several evolutions, different ingredients were added. Adzuki bean has the functions of diuresis, detumescence, detoxification and pus discharge, and has therapeutic effect on heat toxic sores, carbuncle and edema.

But in fact, soybeans can also be guests in Laba porridge. Mainly because soybean is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene and other rich nutrients, which can improve the nutritional content of this bowl of porridge.

Nuts: peanuts and walnuts are essential.

Nuts can add icing on the cake to Laba porridge. Peanut, for example, has many functions, such as moistening lung, harmonizing stomach, relieving cough, diuresis and promoting lactation. It has dietotherapy effect on malnutrition, anorexia, hypogalactia and dry stool.

Walnut kernel has the functions of invigorating kidney and qi, improving intelligence and brain, strengthening tendons and bones, stimulating appetite, blackening beard and growing hair. According to scientific research, phospholipids in walnuts have a good health care effect on brain nerves. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which can help prevent arteriosclerosis.

Others: Do whatever you want because of illness.

All the grains, beans and nuts have been taken out. What if eight kinds are not enough? In fact, you don't have to care about these details at all. A bowl of warm Laba porridge is warmer than anything. Who will pick it up?

Teacher Zhang Yinping from the Clinical Nutrition Department of District People's Hospital sent you some suggestions:

1. The more miscellaneous grains, the better. Miscellaneous grains are rich in dietary fiber, which may not be digested if eaten too much, and the total amount should not exceed 1/3.

2. Miscellaneous beans and soybeans should not be too much. Excessive consumption will cause abdominal distension and discomfort.

3. Nuts are good, but the fat content is high. It is recommended to weigh about 25g per day.

4. Extra reminder of digestive system disorder and children under 3 years old to eat less or not. People with diabetes are not recommended to eat mushy porridge, including Laba porridge.

If you want to add carrots, vegetables and other vegetables, it is a very good idea, novel and nutritious.

A healthier and more nutritious combination,

You can come to the nutrition clinic of the District People's Hospital for consultation!

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Proofreading: Guo Lintao

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