Every year on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is China's traditional festival "Lapa Festival", as the saying goes, "after lapa is the year", this time is usually the coldest stage of winter in china, eat a bowl of fragrant, hot lapa porridge, for the New Year festival to kick off, is the choice of many families. So, how to drink this bowl of Laba porridge more healthily?
Laba porridge, also known as "Seven Treasures Five Flavor Porridge", "Buddha Porridge", "Everyone Rice", etc., is a kind of porridge made of a variety of ingredients, the traditional ingredients of Laba Porridge include rice, millet, corn, barley, red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, guiyuan and various beans (such as red beans, mung beans, soybeans, black beans, kidney beans, etc.), so many ingredients together boiled into porridge, fully embodies the nutritional principles of food diversity.
The ingredients used in Laba porridge have their own nutritional value:
1. Rice, as the base grain of Laba porridge, will generally use japonica rice or glutinous rice, which will make the porridge more viscous and taste better. Rice is rich in carbohydrates and is the most important source of energy for a person throughout the day. Millet, rich in phosphorus and magnesium, can repair bones, regulate nerve and myocardial function, and has a soft and sweet taste, which is very suitable for the elderly. Rice and millet can be eaten together to achieve protein complementarity and make the amino acid composition more balanced.
2. Red beans and mung beans, they are not only rich in B vitamins, but also contain high-quality plant protein, from the perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine, red beans have the effect of nourishing serum heat, healthy spleen and stomach; mung beans are rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and other inorganic salts, which can supplement electrolytes in the body. At the same time, beans are rich in dietary fiber, which can improve gastrointestinal function, detoxification and detoxification.
3. Peanuts and lotus seeds, peanuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, and their oils and fats are not easy to store in the body, which can improve cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension; lotus seeds, which have the effect of benefiting kidneys and astringency, nourishing the heart and calming the mind, lotus seeds have the effect of dispelling fire, especially suitable for people with high work pressure.
4. Jujube and guiyuan, jujube has the effect of replenishing qi and blood, and at the same time, the sugar contained in jujube can improve the taste of lapa porridge when making lapa porridge, and it is sweet and sticky to drink. The same is true of Guiyuan, which can improve the taste of Eight Treasures Porridge.
5. Soybeans and black beans, soybeans are rich in high-quality protein, vitamins and minerals, high nutritional value, known as the king of beans. Its beneficial effect of nourishing blood, strengthening the spleen and replenishing deficiency, moisturizing and detoxifying. Black beans contain the effect of lowering cholesterol in the blood; Black beans are rich in vitamins, lucumin and melanin and other substances, of which B vitamins and vitamin E content is very high, with nutritional health care effects, black beans are also rich in trace elements, to maintain body function, delay the aging of the body, reduce blood viscosity, meet the brain's demand for micronutrients are beneficial.
So what are the precautions when boiling Laba porridge?
First, choose safe and secure ingredients
There are many kinds of ingredients for Laba porridge, each ingredient requires less, many merchants will mix the ingredients well, then consumers must pay attention to whether there is mildew and deterioration in the ingredients, such as the purchase of packaging ingredients, should pay attention to observe whether the product is within the shelf life, whether the packaging is intact.
Second, rational cooking to avoid nutritional loss
When boiling eight treasure porridge, we should also pay attention to the following points to ensure that the porridge is delicious and nutritious.
Ingredients should be pre-treated, and operations such as cleaning, soaking, peeling, pitting, and fine picking should be carried out according to the characteristics of the ingredients. For example, ingredients that are not easy to cook, such as beans, need to be fully soaked before cooking, and they will be softer and more delicious after cooking.
When boiling Laba porridge, it is recommended not to add alkali to prevent the destruction of nutrients such as B vitamins in the ingredients, and the "mixed grain porridge" function of the rice cooker or pressure cooker can be used reasonably, and the delicious porridge can also be cooked.
Third, certain special groups of people should pay special attention
Laba porridge is rich in ingredients, reasonable collocation, balanced nutrition, suitable for eating in this season, but some special groups of people should pay attention to when eating Laba porridge.
Diabetic patients, because the porridge is usually boiled for a long time, the degree of starch gelatinization in rice is high, easy to digest while the impact on blood sugar is also obvious, diabetics should choose unsweetened porridge, should choose oats, buckwheat and other foods rich in dietary fiber, while also increasing the viscosity, to reduce boiling time, to avoid excessive gelatinization of starch. In addition, it is necessary to strictly control the amount of consumption to avoid blood sugar fluctuations.
Patients with dyspepsia or peptic ulcer should not over-consume Lapa Porridge, because Lapa Porridge contains more coarse grains and miscellaneous beans, which may aggravate the symptoms, and at the same time, less soybeans, black beans and other beans should be placed in Lapa Porridge, because beans eat too much, will produce obvious gas, causing gastrointestinal discomfort. Unlike diabetics, the boiling time should be appropriately increased at this time, and the ingredients should be cooked until they are soft and easy to digest.
Patients with chronic renal insufficiency should also control the consumption of laba porridge, a variety of ingredients contain more plant protein, purines, phosphorus and other substances, will increase the burden on the kidneys, patients with renal insufficiency should not be over-consumed.
People in the weight loss stage, do not add sugar when boiling eight porridge, the amount of rice can be appropriately reduced, replaced by kidney beans, red beans and other seeds with relatively thick skins, so that the texture of the porridge is soft and not rotten, with a good taste and fullness. Also pay attention to the total amount of consumption to prevent energy exceeding the standard and rebounding of weight.
Although the ingredients of Laba porridge are rich, but can not be called comprehensive nutrition, lack of high-quality animal protein and vegetables, it is recommended to eat with some eggs, lean meat and greens, more conducive to health.
Jia Kai reviewed
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