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Efficacy and function of rice
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rice is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of nourishing the middle warmer, strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing essence and strengthening the brain, harmonizing the five internal organs, dredging blood vessels, improving hearing and eyesight, quenching thirst and stopping diarrhea. Eating more rice can make people "keep fit and look good".

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 and promote the absorption of fat.

1, digestive aid

Rice soup has the functions of benefiting qi, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, and its taste is sweet and flat, which is beneficial to the development and health of infants. It can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion, promote the absorption of fat, and promote casein in milk powder to form loose and soft small clots, which are easy to digest and absorb. Therefore, it is ideal to make milk powder with rice soup or to give infants an auxiliary diet.

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.

Extended data:

Rice contains about 75% carbohydrates, 7%-8% in protein, 1.3%- 1. 8% fat and rich in B vitamins. The carbohydrate in rice is mainly starch, and the protein in rice is mainly glutenin, followed by glutenin and globulin. Its protein biological value and amino acid composition ratio are higher than those of wheat, barley, millet, corn and other cereal crops, and its digestibility is 66.8%-83. 1%. It is also one of the higher cereal protein.

Rice protein contains less lysine and threonine, so it is not completely protein, and its nutritional value is not as good as animal protein. But eating rice for lunch and dinner is better for people to lose weight than pasta. In the south of China, people generally take rice as their staple food, but it is very different in the north.

The fat content is about 1.3- 1.8%, and the linoleic acid content in the fat is relatively high, accounting for 34% of the total fat, which is 2-5 times higher than that of rapeseed oil and tea oil respectively.

Crops (millet), rice, millet (sorghum), wheat and glutinous rice (beans) are collectively called "five grains". Rice is raw rice.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Rice (Food)