Gu Wu grain health
The ancients thought: "Five grains are the supplement, five fruits are the help, five animals are the benefit, and five dishes are the supplement." It means that the diet should be coarse grains, vegetarian, and reasonably match food and vegetables to ensure human health and energy. It can be seen that whole grains have always been the main food for people's health. Whole grains are also the main raw materials for porridge, among which rice is the most commonly used, followed by mung beans, black beans and wheat.
Since ancient times, there has been a theory of "homology of medicine and food" in China, which supplements food with medicine. According to the saying that "all grains are nourishing", grains are the best medicine for nourishing the body and keeping healthy and longevity.
According to the present viewpoint of nutrition, whole grains are rich in nutrition, including protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamin A, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, potassium, iron, zinc and dietary fiber. Eating whole grains often has a certain preventive effect on anemia, edema, cold, scurvy and other diseases. In addition, it can also improve human immunity. Because whole grains are rich in starch, they can protect gastric mucosa and have a good stomach nourishing effect.
Chua's Ministry of Health
Cereals mainly include: rice, millet, black rice, coix seed, corn, yellow rice, sorghum rice, barley, wheat, oats, buckwheat, black beans, soybeans, adzuki beans, mung beans and broad beans. Rice is the most common raw material for porridge.
suggestion
Whole grains are beneficial to human health, but the following health points should be paid attention to in daily life.
Grains are best eaten after being cooked. In particular, some beans should not be eaten raw, such as soybeans.
People who are allergic to beans should eat bean porridge carefully. Some people have allergic reactions to certain beans, and after eating bean porridge, they will have symptoms such as nausea, coma and shock, so bean porridge can't be eaten at will.
Grains Zhou
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons of brown rice, millet, oats, black glutinous rice and buckwheat, and proper amount of Lycium barbarum.
Appropriate amount of seasoning salt
working methods
1. Wash brown rice, millet, oats, black glutinous rice and buckwheat respectively, soak brown rice, millet and oats for 30 minutes, black glutinous rice for 2 hours and buckwheat for 4 hours.
2. Put the materials treated by 1 method into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, then cook with low fire until soft, and add Lycium barbarum.
3. Add salt to taste according to personal taste.
Brown rice is rich in carbohydrates, B vitamins and vitamin E, which can improve human immune function. Millet is slightly cold, which can dehumidify, strengthen the stomach, harmonize the spleen and sleep well; Oats are rich in starch and protein, and have the effects of invigorating the spleen and regulating the stomach, moistening the intestines and inducing labor, and stopping sweating and bleeding. Black glutinous rice is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can warm the fart and stomach and replenish the middle qi; Buckwheat contains cellulose, which can reduce qi, benefit intestines, clear away heat and detoxify. The porridge made of the above five ingredients and medlar has a good nourishing effect.
Intimately remind glutinous rice that it is sticky and warm, and eating too much is easy to produce phlegm, so those with fever, cough, yellow and thick phlegm or jaundice, urinary system infection, chest tightness and abdominal distension should not eat too much.
Laba porridge
Ingredients: sorghum rice, rhubarb rice, kidney beans, red beans, red dates, peanuts, chestnut kernels and raisins.
A little seasoning and honey.
working methods
1. Dry sorghum rice, rhubarb rice, kidney beans, red beans, red dates, peanuts, chestnut kernels and grapes with clear water.
2. Add water to the pot, put all the ingredients into the pot and cook for 3-5 hours on low heat.
3. When eating, you can put a little honey to taste, and the taste is smooth and sweet.
Sorghum rice is warm and has the effects of regulating stomach, strengthening spleen, cooling blood, detoxifying and stopping diarrhea; Dahuang rice is sweet, sticky and flat, and has the effects of regulating stomach, strengthening spleen and blackening hair; Kidney beans can warm the middle and lower the qi, benefit the stomach and kidney and replenish the yuan; Adzuki bean has the effects of regulating body fluid, inducing diuresis, relieving bloating, reducing swelling and relieving cough, and is suitable to be eaten with other cereals. This Laba porridge not only contains nutrients such as starch and cellulose of grains, but also contains vitamins of fruits, so it is a good health porridge diet.
Intimate reminder, red beans, kidney beans and sorghum rice are not easy to cook. You can steam it in a pot first, and then add rhubarb rice to cook it together, which is easier to cook.
Four-color fragrant bean porridge
Ingredients: mung bean, adzuki bean, cereal, black sesame.
Seasoning sugar or rock sugar is suitable.
working methods
1. Put mung beans, red beans, cereal, black sesame seeds and a proper amount of water into a pot and cook until it becomes sticky.
2. After cooking, add sugar or rock sugar to taste.
Adzuki bean is rich in dietary fiber, which can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, and has certain curative effect on heart disease, kidney disease and edema. Mung bean has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and is especially suitable for people suffering from coronary heart disease, heatstroke, summer heat, polydipsia, boils, food poisoning and other symptoms. Sesame can stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen, induce diuresis, and has a good effect of benefiting liver and kidney. Porridge made of adzuki bean, mung bean, grain and black sesame has good effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, diuresis and relieving summer heat. The porridge can be used for treating body fluid injury caused by fever or polydipsia caused by summer heat.
Drinking this porridge often in summer has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, benefiting stomach and strengthening yang. It is recommended to take this porridge on an empty stomach.
Intimate reminder, this kind of porridge is generally not suitable for winter consumption. In addition, due to the diuretic effect of adzuki bean, people with frequent urination should not eat this porridge.
Coix seed and poria cocos double bean porridge
Ingredients: adzuki bean, mung bean, coix seed and poria cocos.
working methods
1. Add appropriate amount of water to adzuki bean and mung bean, and cook for 10 minute until half cooked. Turn off the fire, pick up the red beans and mung beans, and pour out the soup.
2. Take another pot, add Coicis Semen, Poria, half-cooked red beans, mung beans and appropriate amount of water for about 10 minutes until cooked, and put it in a bowl.
Coix seed is one of the best food varieties with the same origin of medicine and food.
It can promote human metabolism, reduce gastrointestinal burden and enhance renal function. Eating coix seed regularly can also keep skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne and spots, and improve skin color. This kind of coix seed and poria bean porridge is a daily tonic for the elderly and an ideal choice for beauty lovers.
Three-color bean rice porridge
Ingredients: red beans, black beans, mung beans and a little glutinous rice.
working methods
1. Wash adzuki beans, mung beans, black beans and glutinous rice respectively and soak them in clear water for at least 2 hours.
2. First put adzuki beans, black beans and appropriate amount of water into the pot and simmer slowly.
Cook slowly.
3. Take another pot, add mung beans, glutinous rice and appropriate amount of water, and cook on low heat until the porridge is thick and crisp.
4. Pour the cooked adzuki beans and black beans into the mung bean glutinous rice porridge and cook for 20 minutes.
This porridge contains various nutrients of whole grains, including protein, fat, dietary fiber, soybean isoflavones, various amino acids, vitamins and minerals such as iron, calcium and phosphorus. It not only provides nutrition for the body, but also has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, and can relieve discomfort symptoms such as heatstroke and headache in summer.
Healthy eight-treasure porridge
Material A: half a bowl of rice, 2 spoonfuls of coix seed, lotus seeds, Euryale euryales, longan, peas and white lentils.
B: 2 tablespoons each of yam, lily and jujube.
Appropriate amount of flavoring sugar
working methods
1. Wash all materials and soak material A in clean water for 2 hours.
2. Put the material A into the pot, add water and bring it to a boil.
3. Add material B, simmer for 30 minutes, and add sugar to taste when taking out.
This healthy eight-treasure porridge is rich in carbohydrates, protein, fat, cellulose, vitamins, amino acids and minerals, and also contains more calories, which has a good nourishing effect on human body. Eating this porridge regularly can keep healthy and improve immune function.
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