It is black rice. Black rice, also known as "black pearl", has the reputation of "the king of rice in the world". Also used as medicine, it has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening body constitution, warming stomach, improving eyesight, promoting blood circulation, clearing liver-fire, moistening intestines, promoting diuresis, replenishing essence, moistening lung and relaxing muscles and tendons. Its purple rice is a precious rice variety, belonging to glutinous rice. Can be used as medicine, and has particularly good curative effect on dizziness, anemia, gray hair, soreness of waist and knees, night blindness and tinnitus. Long-term consumption can prolong life. Therefore, people commonly call it "medicated rice" and "longevity rice". Because it is most suitable for pregnant women and parturients to replenish blood, it is also called "moon rice" and "blood rice". Emperors of past dynasties also regarded it as the treasure of palace health preservation and called it "Gong Mi".

When cooking porridge with black rice, you can add some glutinous rice to increase the viscosity.

The general law of nutritional value of food tells us that the darker the color, the higher the nutritional value of the same food raw material, and rice also conforms to this law. Therefore, the nutritional value of black rice is much higher than that of white rice. The content of B vitamins in black rice is about 4 times that of polished rice. The contents of trace elements such as potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc and manganese are 4.4 times, 6 times, 1.7 times, 3.8 times and 1.7 times respectively. The content of lysine is 2-2.5 times that of lysine.

Attached. Black rice is a characteristic variety formed by long-term cultivation of Gramineae rice. There are two kinds of grain types: indica rice and japonica rice, and the grain quality is divided into waxy and non-waxy. Brown rice is black or dark brown. Main nutrients (brown rice): based on dry matter, it contains crude protein 8.5- 12.5%, crude fat 2.7-3.8%, carbohydrate 75-84% and crude ash 1.7-2%. Inorganic salts such as manganese, zinc and copper in black rice are mostly 1~3 times higher than those in rice. It also contains special ingredients such as vitamin C, chlorophyll, anthocyanin (anti-aging), carotene and cardiac glycoside that rice lacks. Rice porridge boiled with black rice is fragrant and shiny, soft and delicious, rich in nutrition and good in nourishing effect, and is called "blood-enriching rice" and "longevity rice". There is a folk saying in our country that "everything must be supplemented." Black rice is dark in color and rich in nutrition, and has the reputation of "black pearl" and "king of rice in the world".

Because black rice contains more dietary fiber, the digestion speed of starch is relatively slow, and the glycemic index is only 55 (87 for white rice). Therefore, eating black rice will not cause violent fluctuations in blood sugar like eating white rice. In addition, minerals such as potassium and magnesium in black rice are also beneficial to control blood pressure and reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, diabetics and patients with cardiovascular diseases can eat black rice as part of their diet. Best for cooking porridge.