Can I eat rice during lactation?
You can eat rice during lactation. Rice porridge has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach and clearing lung heat. Rice soup has the functions of benefiting qi, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, which can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion, promote the absorption of fat and help postpartum slimming. The benefits of eating rice during lactation are as follows:
1, digestive aid
Rice soup has the function of benefiting qi, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Sweet taste, can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion, promote the absorption of fat, but also promote casein in milk powder to form loose and soft small clots, easy to digest and absorb. Postpartum constipation is something that lactating mothers will encounter more or less.
Step 2 lower blood pressure
The high-quality protein contained in rice porridge and rice soup can keep blood vessels soft and achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure.
Step 3 lose weight
Rice slimming is a natural food with low calorie, high carbohydrate, low salt, low fat, low sugar and low protein. Its initial goal is to treat some chronic diseases. Note: this method is not suitable for mothers who have undergone colectomy and renal failure.
Besides taking rice as the staple food, lactating mothers should also pay attention to the intake of fish, poultry, eggs, lean meat and seafood, so as to ensure that their mothers can get enough high-quality protein. Without protein, the quality and quantity of milk will be affected. Animal foods such as fish, poultry, eggs and lean meat can provide rich and high-quality protein. Mom should increase the total amount of fish, poultry, eggs and lean meat 100g- 150g every day. Mom should drink more soup and take enough micronutrients to ensure the nutritional content of milk.
The habit of eating rice during lactation
Accustomed to eating rice, add chicken or yuba to rice, and plain rice porridge becomes nutritious and delicious porridge.
Chicken vegetable porridge
Ingredients: 1 bowl of rice porridge, 50g of chicken breast, 1 a handful of green vegetables and a little ginger.
working methods
1, chicken breast is cut into minced meat, small vegetables are washed and chopped, and ginger is minced.
2, put oil in a hot pot, pour in chicken and ginger and stir fry quickly.
3. Stir-fry until the chicken turns white, then add the chopped green vegetables and stir-fry a few times.
4. Pour the rice porridge and boil it with appropriate amount of boiling water. After cooling, it can be fed.
Braised bamboo tube porridge
material
Rice 100g, fresh shellfish (scallop) 80g, yuba 30g, shredded ginger 3g, salt 1 teaspoon (5g), chopped green onion 10g, a little white pepper and a little dry starch.
working methods
1. Wash fresh shellfish, cut into pieces, and marinate with a little dry starch for later use. Soak yuba in warm water, wash and shred.
2. Wash the rice clean, add water 1500ml to the pot, bring it to a boil with high fire, pour in the rice, and simmer for 60 minutes.
3. Cook the shredded yuba in the fire for 3 minutes, then pour in the scallops and shredded ginger. After boiling, season with salt, chopped green onion and white pepper.
skill
1, when cooking porridge, pour out the washed rice after the water is boiled, instead of cooking the water and rice together. In this way, the temperature inside and outside the rice grain is different, and there will be many tiny cracks on the surface of the rice grain, which are easy to bloom and ooze starch. When starch is constantly dissolved in water, porridge will become sticky.
2. When cooking rice porridge, there will be an overflow phenomenon. In order to prevent rice soup from overflowing, you can add 5 or 6 drops of salad oil to the pot during the porridge cooking.