Can red beans and barley lose weight?
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, eating more red beans and barley can reduce weight. Alkaloids in red beans can increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce constipation and promote urination, and eliminate edema caused by heart or kidney diseases. Eating red beans to lose weight can make your thighs and waist have a very obvious curve effect. Coix seed is rich in nutrition, and contains many amino acids and nutrients such as coix seed oil, coix seed fat, sterols, amino acids, arginine, vitamin B 1, carbohydrates, etc. It has the effects of diuresis, dampness elimination, spleen strengthening, diarrhea stopping, heat clearing and detoxification.
Red bean and barley diet
Ingredients: red beans, coix seed, water, rock sugar.
Practice: Red bean and coix seed porridge, prepare the same amount of red beans and coix seed, wash, soak red beans in clear water for 3 hours, soak coix seed for 1 hour, wash rice, soak for half an hour, the amount of rice is less than that of red beans and coix seed, and then cook red beans for a long time. It is recommended to add more water or add more water on the road. Wait until the red beans are boiled and blossomed, then add rice and barley, boil over high fire, then cook over low fire until thick, and add some rock sugar to taste.
It turns out that red beans and barley are not only delicious and nutritious, but also have the effect of losing weight. Female friends who want to lose weight through diet should eat quickly! Because red beans and coix seed belong to coarse grains, we can eat them as staple food, but for more balanced nutrition, it is best to match them with other healthy diet foods.