The same is rice, glutinous rice and rice have completely different identities. Rice is cheap, can be eaten every day, and after boiled into white rice, it can be used as a staple food for a long time, providing nutrition for humans. Glutinous rice is expensive, mostly appearing during festivals, zongzi, rice balls, rice cakes, are all glutinous rice products.
What is the difference between glutinous rice and rice?
1. Different appearance: From the appearance, even if you are a person who does not divide grains, you can quickly distinguish the difference. Rice has a long and flat appearance, with light transmission, and light can be seen through the rice when viewed in sunlight or light. Glutinous rice, on the other hand, is opaque milky white, opaque, and not as white as rice when cooked.
2. The taste is different: whether it is glutinous rice or rice, it contains starch. However, the starch in glutinous rice is almost pullulan, which makes the taste of glutinous rice very sticky, fragrant and glutinous. The starch of rice is amylose, which makes the taste of rice easier to chew and have distinct particles.
3. The method is different: friends who have made sticky rice know that the cooking method of sticky rice is much more troublesome than rice, and it is necessary to soak the glutinous rice a period of time in advance, and the steaming time is longer, so that the sticky rice is soft enough. Rice, on the other hand, does not need to be soaked, just put it directly into the rice cooker.
The same rice, why can't glutinous rice become a staple food?
1, not easy to digest: glutinous rice and all glutinous rice products have a commonality, eat a little to make people feel support, sometimes eat a rice dumpling, eat a bowl of rice balls, do not feel hungry all day. This is because glutinous rice is more difficult to digest, and its soft and sticky taste also makes people feel very full.
The reason why it is difficult to be digested is that glutinous rice itself is difficult to chew, although amylopectin is broken down faster by digestive enzymes, but the taste of glutinous rice is soft and sticky, it is difficult to tear open when chewing teeth, and once the glutinous rice cools, it becomes more difficult to chew and more difficult to digest, so eating sticky rice will be harder than eating rice.
2. Glutinous rice is easier to eat: Due to the high viscosity and the reason why people need more strength to chew glutinous rice, everyone will feel that glutinous rice is more difficult to use as a daily staple food, because it is too tired to eat and too easy to get tired. If you try eating rice dumplings and rice cakes for a week, will you feel bad?
But eating rice will not have such a reaction, rice is easy to chew, the taste is sweet, although more common than glutinous rice, but more suitable for daily consumption. This is why people eat rice every day, but they still don't get tired and can eat it for a long time.
3. Glutinous rice is not suitable for eating with the same dish: Chinese prefer the next meal, the rice grains are loose and easy to integrate with the dish, so it is suitable for eating with the next meal. Glutinous rice sticks together, it is not easy to stir with vegetables and vegetable soup, and the ingredients can only be mixed with glutinous rice in advance, such as eight treasure rice, sweet and salty rice dumplings, and the taste is limited.
There is also a saying that although it is not the main reason why glutinous rice cannot be used as a staple food, I think it makes sense, that is, the bowls, plates, and chopsticks filled with glutinous rice are too difficult to clean. Cooked glutinous rice is still easy to remove, and cooled glutinous rice becomes hard and difficult to wash off when stuck to the bowl, which is a nightmare for those who wash dishes.
To sum up, although glutinous rice is delicious and has high nutritional value, it is indeed inferior to other people's rice moderation compared with rice, and the moderation can be eaten often. It is necessary to remind everyone that friends and the elderly who are not very healthy in the stomach should reduce the number of times they eat glutinous rice to avoid that glutinous rice is not easy to digest and cause physical discomfort.
Source: Rush Daddy