The Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences once reported that the nutritional components and contents of Coix lachryma-jobi in Pucheng, Fujian Province are as follows: every 65438 000 grams of Coix lachryma-jobi contains 65438 04.2 grams of protein, 65438 02.4 grams of moisture, 67.2 grams of carbohydrate, 3.6 grams of fat, 65438 0.8 grams of ash, 0.8 grams of dietary fiber and 0.22 grams of thiamine. Selenium is 3.3μg, iron is 2.9mg, zinc 1.89mg, magnesium 126mg, potassium 3 1.03mg, manganese 1.89mg, phosphorus 229mg and copper 0.07mg, among which coix seed is rich in calcium. The average contents of vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, iron, zinc and selenium are basically the same as those of rice and flour, and they also contain essential amino acids and minerals such as tyrosine, lysine, arginine and leucine.
Coix seed is similar to other cereals, mainly composed of starch (starch content is about 60%) and amylose is about 4.78% ~ 4.90%. Its food nutrition comes from high protein content and high quality amino acids. The contents of fatty acids and protein in Coix lachryma-jobi seed are 65,438+00% and 65,438+05% respectively, while those in other cereals are only 65,438+0.9%. The determination of amino acids and fatty acids showed that Coix lachryma-jobi seed is rich in essential amino acids, among which oleic acid, linoleic acid and other unsaturated fatty acids are high and linolenic acid is low.
Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, heat-clearing and pain-relieving. Through pharmacological research, it is found that various components of Coix lachryma-jobi have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and have strong antibacterial effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other bacteria. Gao Lan and other studies have found that the water extract of Coix lachryma-jobi has obvious inhibitory effect on mouse ear shell swelling caused by egg white arthritis, cotton granuloma and xylene in rats, and can also significantly inhibit mouse hot plate-induced pain reaction and acetic acid-induced writhing reaction, so it can be concluded that Coix lachryma-jobi has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. By comparing various experimental acute and chronic animal inflammation models, Shen et al. found that one of the effective components of Coix lachryma-jobi has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, which can relieve cancer pain and inhibit inflammatory reaction.
Regulating blood vessels, lowering blood sugar and quenching thirst. Pharmacological research shows that coix seed has the function of softening blood vessels, and taking rice seed regularly is helpful to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Japanese scholars isolated polysaccharide from coix seed, and modern pharmacological exploration found that the polysaccharide has hypoglycemic effect. Coix seed polysaccharide can reduce the blood sugar level of human body by inhibiting muscle glycogen glycolysis and liver glycogen decomposition.
Prevent cancer and improve immunity. The active components (coix seed ester, coix seed oil) and total extract of coix seed have strong anti-tumor effect. These components include: free fatty acids, palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, etc. The anticancer mechanism of coix seed is to inhibit the development of cancer by changing the mechanism of apoptosis. When mice were fed with coix seed, it was found that the tumor in mice showed signs of shrinking. Coix seed can inhibit the expression of colon cancer protein, thus inhibiting colon cancer. Coix seed oil can also inhibit the growth of Ehrlich ascites cancer cells, and has obvious inhibitory effects on Ehrlich ascites cancer, cervical cancer and HAC solid carcinogenesis in mice.
Beauty. Coix seed is a whitening product and a pure natural slimming and beauty food. Modern research has confirmed that Coix seed is rich in protein, vitamin B 1 and B2, which can keep the skin shiny and delicate if eaten frequently, and has a good effect on eliminating acne, freckles, senile plaques and pregnancy spots, and preventing desquamation, chapped skin and rough skin.
Coix lachryma-jobi seed is rich in vitamin E, which has antioxidant function and plays a very important role in inhibiting toxic lipid peroxide, stabilizing unsaturated fatty acids, maintaining cell membrane integrity and resisting aging. Regular consumption can keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, spotted finches, senile plaques, pregnancy spots and butterfly spots, and has a good curative effect on acne, chapped skin and rough skin.
In addition, coix seed also has the function of hairdressing, which can make hair smooth and soft and prevent hair loss.
Lose weight. Studies have reported that Coix lachryma-jobi extract can treat obesity as a therapeutic agent, and the experimental results show that Coix lachryma-jobi can reduce the content of serum cholesterol and triglyceride. Coix seed can promote the metabolism of blood and water in the body, and its oil extracts, such as coix seed oil and coix seed ester triterpenes, have the functions of reducing blood fat and losing weight, and can play a certain role in losing weight.
There are many ways to eat barley, and the most commonly used is porridge, such as barley red bean porridge and barley lotus leaf porridge. The former is suitable for patients with severe spleen deficiency and damp heat, while the latter is suitable for patients with high blood lipid. It should be noted that the coix seed should be soaked for 3 ~ 4 hours before cooking, and the water soaked in rice should be cooked together. In addition, in winter, you can stir-fry Coix seed and soak it in water, which can weaken the coolness of Coix seed and strengthen the spleen. Hot pot is a favorite food, but people with spleen deficiency eating hot pot, especially spicy hot pot, will inevitably aggravate the symptoms of spleen deficiency and heavy dampness and heat. If you eat some barley at this time, it will be good for your health. People with chronic atrophic gastritis should eat some rice kernels. People with flatulence, stomachache, indigestion and constipation for many years can make soup with rice kernels, which can be eaten all year round to nourish their stomachs.
Dietary taboos. Coix seed is good, but it also has taboos. Coix seed can stimulate uterine smooth muscle and promote uterine contraction, so it may lead to miscarriage, so pregnant women should avoid eating it, especially in the first trimester. In addition, patients with nocturnal emission and enuresis should not eat coix seed.
Coix lachryma-jobi, also known as Coix lachryma-jobi, is the seed kernel of the herb Coix lachryma-jobi, and it is also one of the commonly used medicinal and edible herbs. Its nutritional value is extremely high, and it has the reputation of "the first rice in the world". Someone asked, what are the benefits of coix seed?
What ingredients does coix seed contain?
Modern research shows that coix seed contains vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, vitamin E, protein, fat, carbohydrate, volatile oil, coix seed polysaccharide, dextran, dietary fiber, thiamine, riboflavin, potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, magnesium and selenium.
What are the benefits of coix seed?
Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica holds that coix seed can treat rheumatism and arthralgia well, reduce qi and remove dampness, and can also be used to replenish qi for a long time. Chinese medicine believes that coix seed is sweet, light and cool, and belongs to the spleen and stomach and lung meridians. It has the effects of promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, removing arthralgia, relaxing muscles and tendons, expelling pus and relieving swelling, and is suitable for cardiogenic edema, spleen and stomach weakness, chronic enteritis, lung heat cough, tuberculosis, lung abscess, lung fiber, appendicitis, rheumatic pain, arthritis, dysuria and muscle spasm. Coix seed is warm, slightly cold without hurting the stomach, benefiting the spleen without being greasy, and it is a good product for both medicine and food.
(1) Coix seed can promote diuresis to reduce swelling, and also strengthen the spleen and tonify the middle energizer, so it is most suitable for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, edema and beriberi edema, such as Coix seed poria porridge and Coix seed ginseng thin broth.
(2) Job's tears are cold, which can clear away heat and promote diuresis. It is a good food therapy for hot and humid summer, such as coix seed and winter melon soup.
(3) Coix seed contains a certain amount of vitamin E, which has the functions of moistening skin, whitening and removing spots. Coix seed can make skin smooth, moist and fair by regular eating or grinding and external application, and can be used for adjuvant treatment of facial flat wart, chloasma, acne and other skin diseases.
(4) Coix seed can also relax tendons and activate collaterals, relieve joint pain and assist in the treatment of arthritis.
(5) In addition, modern scientific research shows that Coix seed has the functions of lowering cholesterol, improving immunity and resisting virus.
What are the precautions for eating coix seed?
It is worth noting that people with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency can fry coix seed before eating, and the effect is better. Because coix seed is diuretic, people with spleen deficiency and no dampness, less sweating and dry stool and pregnant women should be careful to eat it.
Coix seed, also known as Coix seed, Coix seed, Coix seed, Coix seed, Coix seed, medicinal corn, etc. Coix seed has high nutritional value. Coix seed contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, starch, leucine, arginine, lysine, tyrosine, fatty acid, coix seed ester, coix seed oil, sitosterol and alkaloid. The content of protein, fat and vitamin B 1 is much higher than that of rice.
Coix seed is a commonly used Chinese medicine and a common food. Sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, it is beneficial to detumescence, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, clearing heat and expelling pus, and is a commonly used diuretic and dampness-permeable drug.
The main components of coix seed powder are protein, vitamin B 1 and B2, which have the effects of smoothing skin, reducing wrinkles and eliminating pigmentation spots. Long-term drinking can whiten brown spots, freckles and blisters, make spots disappear and moisturize the skin.
Coix seed is also used as a weight loss product. In addition, it has obvious curative effect on facial acne and rough skin, and also has the ability to absorb ultraviolet rays. Coix seed itself has the effects of moistening skin, whitening skin, moistening, promoting qi circulation, regulating menstruation and relieving pain. It is very prominent when applied to the skin, and has the functions of naturally whitening skin, improving skin metabolism and moisturizing, effectively preventing skin dryness, making the body agile and reducing the chance of cancer.
Coix seed has many names, such as Coix seed, Coix seed and so on. Many people know that coix seed is used for dehumidification and has a good effect on weight loss, especially its role in traditional Chinese medicine. According to Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, Coix seed can strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the lungs and clear away heat, dispel wind and overcome dampness, especially in this season, the weather is not only hot, but also sultry.
In addition to its important functions, Coix lachryma-jobi also has good nutritional value, such as protein, vitamin E, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc, selenium and other nutrients, which are rich in content, so regular consumption of Coix lachryma-jobi can play a role in inhibiting tumor cell proliferation, adjuvant treatment of gastric cancer and cervical cancer, anti-aging and prolonging life, especially in hot summer.
Because of its unique taste, not everyone can adapt to it, so when eating barley, you can cook soup without red beans. Although the two are a good match, there are actually many ways to eat coix seed. For example, when we cook eight-treasure porridge, we can add it. With more ingredients, the taste is naturally light and easier to eat. In addition, after the barley is cooked, it can also be fried with corn, peas, carrots, eggs and onions, which is not only richer and more fragrant, but also more conducive to weight control.
People with high blood sugar eat barley well.
Coix seed has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, clearing away heat and expelling wind, and is particularly easy to digest and absorb. It is a good diet food, suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. It is very effective to get rid of dampness with red beans. In Japan, coix seed is regarded as a typical "anti-cancer food".
Coix lachryma-jobi seed can inhibit striated muscle, which is a natural product for beauty and wrinkle removal. People with facial wrinkles and dull complexion caused by deficiency of both spleen and stomach have the effects of smoothing skin, reducing wrinkles and eliminating pigmentation spots. It has obvious curative effect on facial acne and rough skin.
Coix seed has the function of lowering blood sugar, dilating blood vessels and lowering blood sugar, especially for hypertension and hyperglycemia.
dehumidify
Coix seed has the function of diuresis and detumescence, that is, dehumidification, so for friends with heavy moisture, you can eat more Coix seed, or fry Coix seed and drink it directly with water.
Regulate insomnia
Coix seed also has a certain sedative effect. Eating job's tears can also relieve you, or you can boil water with job's tears and Ziziphus jujuba seeds to drink, which also helps you sleep.
A healthy stomach
Coix seed contains cellulose, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, clean up toxins in the body, and has a good protective effect on the stomach. Therefore, if the gastrointestinal transport is not good, you can try to eat more barley.
Hair care
Coix seed is rich in nutrition. Eating coix seed regularly can prevent hair loss and turn white. If it is troublesome to cook Coix seed, you can soak it in water directly, but you need to cook Coix seed.
beauty
Coix seed, tremella and red dates, together with soup, have a good cosmetic effect and can replenish qi and blood.
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nutritive value
Coix seed is rich in carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin b 1 and other trace elements.
Carbohydrates in coix seed
Carbohydrate is one of the important nutrients we consume every day, which mainly provides blood sugar for our body and maintains the basic metabolic function of our daily life, work and study. Based on this feature, coix seed is the staple food.
Dietary fiber in coix seed
Dietary fiber can promote intestinal peristalsis, excretion and constipation symptoms. The common staple food on our table is white rice. Like our common staple foods (white rice, white steamed bread, white noodles, white bread, rice congee), they are all delicate grains, which are easily absorbed by the human body quickly, which is particularly unfavorable to the management of blood sugar for patients with abnormal blood sugar and diabetes. Coarse grains such as coix seed will not make blood sugar rise rapidly.
Therefore, coarse grains should account for one third (or even more) of the staple food in the Dietary Guide for China Residents. However, people with gastrointestinal diseases or discomfort should be reminded that it is not easy to eat too much coarse grains such as coix seed, and a moderate amount is enough.
Vitamin b 1
Grains such as coix seed have congenital conditions and are richer in vitamin b 1 than other kinds of food. At ordinary times, we can eat more foods rich in vitamin b 1 to prevent foot diseases, and the most typical one is to effectively prevent beriberi.
Edible method of coix seed
1, as a staple food. Just now we said that barley is rich in carbohydrates and is a staple food. It can be mixed with other miscellaneous grains and white rice (barley needs to be brewed for 20 minutes in advance, otherwise the rice will be hard) to make miscellaneous grains rice and porridge.
2. drinks. We all know that coix seed has the effect of dehumidification, and cooking with red beans and mung beans is also a good choice.
It should be noted that if you are a blood sugar controller! Weight manager! Don't add extra sugar (white sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar) to the coix seed water, including the sediment after cooking, which is not recommended. The remaining sediment can be used as the staple food of the next meal and made into miscellaneous grains porridge.
Step 3 make a salad. I suggest you choose lemon salad juice, which is much lower in calories than ordinary salad dressing (salad oil eggs) and thousand island dressing. It is also a good breakfast, with vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk and oats.
4. make snacks. Can be made into snacks similar to popcorn, but there is a premise, no sugar, to control energy intake, after the completion can also be added to yogurt to eat together, you can also add seasoning, better to eat, healthier.
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Nutritional analysis of coix seed;
1. Coix seed contains various vitamins and minerals, which can promote metabolism and reduce gastrointestinal burden, and can be used as tonic food for weak patients during or after illness;
2. Regular consumption of coix seed food is also effective for chronic enteritis and dyspepsia. Coix seed can enhance renal function and has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis, so it is also effective for edema patients.
3. Modern pharmacological studies have proved that Coix lachryma-jobi seed has anti-cancer effect, and its effective anti-cancer components include selenium, which can effectively inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and can be used for adjuvant treatment of gastric cancer and cervical cancer;
4. Healthy people often eat barley, which can make their bodies agile and reduce the occurrence of tumors;
5. Coix seed contains a certain amount of vitamin E, which is a beauty food. Regular consumption can keep human skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne and spots, improve skin color, and have a certain therapeutic effect on warts caused by virus infection.
6. Coix seed is rich in vitamin B, which is very beneficial to prevent beriberi.
Coix seed is suitable for people:
The general population can eat it.
1. Suitable for all kinds of cancer patients, arthritis, acute and chronic nephritis edema, cancerous ascites, facial edema, beriberi edema, warts, beauticians, young verruca plana, verruca vulgaris, molluscum contagiosum, young acne acne, other skin malnutrition, rough skin, and lung flaccid carbuncle.
2. According to the previous experience, women should not eat in the early pregnancy; In addition, people who sweat less and are constipated should not eat it.
Therapeutic effects of coix seed;
Coix seed is sweet, light and slightly cold, and belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians;
Has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, eliminating arthralgia, clearing away heat and pus, and clearing away damp-heat;
Can be used for treating diarrhea, tendon contracture, adverse flexion and extension, edema, beriberi, intestinal carbuncle, stranguria, leucorrhea, etc.
Job's tears practice instruction:
1. Raw coix seed soup is conducive to eliminating dampness and expelling wind; Strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, treating diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cooked food should be fried.
2. Coix seed can be used as food, porridge or soup. Winter melon soup in summer and autumn can be eaten with meals, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis.
3. Boil the fresh milk, add appropriate amount of coix seed powder, and stir well to serve. Regular consumption can keep the skin shiny and delicate, and eliminate acne, freckles, age spots, pregnancy spots and butterfly spots.
4. Coix seed is difficult to cook, so it needs to be soaked in warm water for 2-3 hours before cooking, so that it can fully absorb water. It is easy to cook with other rice after absorbing water.
1, introduce the practice of yam, barley and jujube porridge in detail.
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Raw materials for making yam, barley and jujube porridge;
Ingredients: coix seed100g, rice100g, yam 200g.
Accessories: jujube (dry) 15g.
Seasoning: 20g rock sugar, honey 15g.
1. Wash rice, coix seed and jujube respectively;
2. Soak rice in clear water for 30 minutes and Coix seed in clear water for 2 hours;
3. Wash and peel long yam and cut it into long hob blocks;
4. Put the pot on the fire, add water, rice and coix seed, boil it over medium heat, and then cook it over low heat until it becomes thick;
5. Add yam slices and red dates and cook for about 20 minutes;
6. Put the rock sugar into the cooked porridge, stir well, and pour in honey after cooling slightly.
First of all, let's understand what coix seed is, and what is its function and efficacy?
Coix lachryma-jobi, also known as Coix lachryma-jobi, Coix lachryma-jobi and Liuguzi, is the seed kernel of Coix lachryma-jobi in Gramineae, and it is a Chinese herbal medicine with homology of medicine and food. This is planted in most rural areas!
Its effects include: diuresis, invigorating spleen, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus. Cool, sweet and light, into the spleen, lungs and kidneys!
This medicine is familiar to ordinary people. However, just as job's tears are often called "job's tears", they are often used to cook porridge, and because of their familiarity with job's tears, the image of job's tears promoting diuresis and treating spleen deficiency and dampness is deeply rooted in people's hearts.
So what are the benefits of eating coix seed for your health?
Pharmacologically speaking, coix seed is light and sweet, which not only helps to reduce swelling, but also strengthens the spleen and tonifies the middle energizer. It is often used for edema, abdominal distension and dysuria caused by spleen deficiency and dampness. Usually used with Poria, Atractylodis Macrocephala and Astragalus. For example, Shen Ling Bai Zhu Powder is combined with Ginseng, Poria and Atractylodes macrocephala to treat spleen deficiency and dampness. It can also treat edema and dyspnea, such as cooking with dark plum juice.
From the food point of view, simple glutinous rice porridge can also strengthen the spleen, clear away heat and eliminate dampness, but people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are not suitable!
Here we share a slimming porridge, Coix seed lotus lily porridge: 50 grams of Coix seed, 30 grams of lotus seed (heart-removed) and 20 grams of lily, which are boiled first, then boiled with 50 grams of japonica rice, and seasoned with appropriate amount of brown sugar (or honey). It has effects in invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, moistening lung, relieving diarrhea, strengthening skin, caring skin, and is suitable for constipation, eczema of lower limbs, facial acne, etc. This effect is very good, you might as well try it!
What are the precautions for eating barley?
1. Because coix seed can make the body cold, and the deficiency-cold system is not suitable for long-term use, pregnant women and menstruating women should avoid eating it.
2. The sugar contained in glutinous rice is very sticky, and eating too much may hinder digestion.
3. Although Coix seed has the function of lowering blood fat and blood sugar, it is only a health food and cannot be used as medicine. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia should seek medical treatment, and never eat barley for treatment.