Can you lose weight by eating eight-treasure porridge?
Eating eight-treasure porridge to lose weight is not recommended. Although there are many ingredients in the eight-treasure porridge, such as lotus seeds, longan, red beans, glutinous rice, barley and so on. Its main ingredient is rice and its cooked state is porridge. Although eating a can of eight-treasure porridge can make you feel full, you will soon feel hungry and have to eat other foods, so virtually, it actually increases your body's food intake, which is not conducive to losing weight.
On the other hand, when making eight-treasure porridge, a lot of sugar will be added. If you eat it as the staple food for three meals a day, you may feel a little thinner for a while, but it will not lose weight after a long time, so it is not recommended that you use eight-treasure porridge to lose weight. I can only eat a little when I want to eat occasionally.
Traditional eight-treasure porridge refers to porridge made of eight different raw materials. But now, many "eight-treasure porridge" materials have exceeded eight kinds. "Eight-treasure porridge" generally takes japonica rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice as the main material, and adds auxiliary materials, such as mung beans, red beans, lentils, white lentils, red dates, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan, pine nuts, yams, lilies, medlar, gordon euryales and coix seed. People in different parts of China choose different materials according to their dietary preferences.