As the staple food of hundreds of millions of people, people's understanding of rice is only superficial. We know that it contains fiber, but we don't know that it contains whitening and beautifying substances. We know how to steam rice in a pot every day, but we don't think about how to cook it, which can make people better absorb the nutrition. How to nourish the body, let's start with rice.

Then, after ignoring the rice above, we should have a good understanding of our staple food rice. Rice is a kind of nutritious seed food and a daily staple food for many people. Rice can be divided into seven categories: 1. Rice can be divided into standard rice and special rice according to processing accuracy. The standard watch is also called 95 meters. 2. glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is one of the varieties with high viscosity, and its carbohydrate structure is different from that of ordinary rice. 3. fragrant rice. Fragrant rice has a clear fragrance, while steamed rice has a strong fragrance. Such as Thai fragrant rice. 4. Black rice. Black rice is rich in carotene, which is beneficial to human body. The skin of black rice is black, the embryo heart is crystal clear, and it will not fade when washed with water. 5. brown rice Brown rice is not very finely processed rice. The loss of nutritional value is small. 6. Free meals. Wash-free rice can be cooked directly without washing. Wash-free rice has gone through the process of whitening and polishing with water mill. 7. Strengthen rice. Rice has high processing precision and low nutritional value. Nutritional enriched rice is to strengthen vitamins, lysine and calcium in polished rice.

In fact, the key to eating rice healthily is not how expensive it is, nor how multifunctional it is, but how it is eaten. It is actually very good to choose brown rice as raw material, but it is very particular about eating.

Different kinds of rice are introduced above, but ordinary rice used for cooking everyday belongs to japonica rice or polished rice, which is translucent, oval or oval, with high rice yield, small rice swelling, but high viscosity. As a daily edible rice, japonica rice contains starch, protein, fat, vitamin b 1, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, calcium, iron and other essential nutrients, which can provide nutrition and heat for human body.

How to better absorb the nutrients in rice can be done by cooking. Cooking porridge with japonica rice has a history of 2000 years in China. The top layer of porridge oil can replenish fluid and essence, which is of great benefit to nourishing yin and tonifying kidney essence, and is most suitable for patients, parturients and the elderly. Japonica rice has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, invigorating middle qi, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, relieving vexation and thirst, moistening intestines and stopping diarrhea. Can be used for spleen and stomach weakness, polydipsia, malnutrition, post-illness weakness and other symptoms, but diabetic patients should be careful not to eat more.

For people whose digestive ability of stomach and intestines is weaker than that of normal people, porridge is easy to be absorbed because rice is mixed with a large amount of water at high temperature to decompose more complex substances into simpler substances, thus reducing the burden of damaged stomach and intestines and making patients with gastrointestinal diseases better recuperate their bodies.