Grain is our indispensable staple food. Nowadays, people gradually take care of themselves. Besides polished rice and refined flour, they also eat whole grains. So what kinds of grains are there? Let me tell you about them today.

Cereals refer to: rice, wheat, soybeans, corn and potatoes. At the same time, grains other than rice and flour are customarily called miscellaneous grains and also refer to food crops, so grains are also a general term for food crops. In Huangdi Neijing, five grains are called "japonica rice, red beans, wheat, soybeans and millet", while in Mencius Teng Wengong, five grains are called "rice, millet, wheat and millet". There is also a saying that five crops are "hanging, vines, roots and horns"

A smart health person knows how to match food and balance nutrition. As early as in Huangdi Neijing, Su Wen put forward the principle of "five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five livestock for benefit, five vegetables for filling, and the smell is consistent to replenish essence", which also shows the dominant position of five grains in diet. Nutrition believes that the best diet is actually a balanced diet. Eating only polished rice and white flour and coarse grains, such as millet, corn, buckwheat, sorghum and oats, is not in line with the principle of dietary balance.

nutritive value

1, Wheat: Wheat is sweet in taste, flat in nature, slightly cold, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, nourishing heart and calming nerves. People who are upset and insomnia can cook porridge with wheat, rice and jujube.

2. Soybean: The black beans in soybean are called "kidney valley". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening body, detoxifying and moistening skin, and has a good therapeutic effect on kidney deficiency and edema.

3, sorghum: sorghum can warm the intestines and diuresis. It has obvious effects on children's dyspepsia and adults' spleen and stomach qi deficiency, and has a very good effect on physique.

4, Xiaomi: Xiaomi is the first of the five grains, and regular food can supplement the spleen and stomach. Millet is a tonic for people with spleen deficiency and weakness.

In addition, there are many miscellaneous grains, all of which have their nutritional value.

Whole grains can nourish the five internal organs. As early as ancient times, there was a saying that "one grain supplements one dirty". Soybean nourishes kidney, rice nourishes lung, millet nourishes spleen, sorghum nourishes liver and wheat nourishes heart. In life, you can put whole grains in our recipes, so that you can keep healthy!

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