The weather is getting colder, and the stomach is particularly troublesome. Often bloating, stomach pain, stomach acid... Therefore, in order to make their stomach more "strong", many people will eat some "stomach-nourishing food", such as white porridge, rotten noodles...
But eating like this for a long time is not good for the stomach.
These foods do not nourish the stomach
1. White porridge is mainly carbohydrates and water, which is indeed easy to digest, but the nutrition is single, and the nutrients such as dietary fiber, B vitamins, and minerals are insufficient. Long-term eating white porridge is actually not conducive to stomach health.
Improvement Tips:
On the basis of white porridge, you can add some multigrains and beans, such as corn grits, millet, oats, red beans, kidney beans, etc. But you can't drink porridge all the time, it's best to eat it with other foods.
2. The protein content in noodles is higher than that of rice in porridge, but the problem is similar, high carbohydrate content, and other nutritional values are limited. The same does not have the effect of "nourishing the stomach".
Improvement Tips:
As long as there is no obvious discomfort in the stomach, you can add some "ingredients" to the noodles to balance nutrition: crushed vegetables, minced meat, eggs, various mushrooms, kelp and other algae, tofu, etc., are all good choices.
3. Buns are similar to bread, and during the fermentation process, part of the starch can be decomposed into smaller molecules of sugar, and the content of components that are not conducive to digestion such as phytic acid can be reduced.
High-temperature baking can further gelatinize starch, and the digestive enzymes in the human body are easier to hydrolyze this gelatinized starch molecule, which is more friendly to the stomach from this point of view.
However, whether it is steamed buns or bread, it is a staple food after all, and eating them only has the same effect as noodles and porridge.
In addition, a lot of bread, a lot of oil, salt, sugar added to the production process, in fact, is not healthy.
4. Soda biscuits often contain sodium bicarbonate. This alkaline ingredient can neutralize excessive stomach acid to a certain extent, making the stomach a little more comfortable.
But similar to white porridge and noodles, the nutrition of soda biscuits is relatively single, plus many soda biscuits contain a lot of added fat, salt, and even some contain added sugar, eating too much is not good for health.
Therefore, eating soda biscuits to "nourish the stomach" will do more harm than good, and it is best to eat less.
5. Foods that are not easy to digest such as big fish and meat may increase the burden on the stomach, and if you only eat vegetarian food for a short time, it can indeed make the stomach "reduce the burden".
However, if you eat vegetarian food for a long time, the average person is easy to mix unevenly, resulting in malnutrition, such as insufficient intake of high-quality protein, iron, zinc and vitamin B12, which is not good for stomach health.
These foods are indeed easy to digest, but "easy to digest" ≠ "good for the stomach".
Whether it is acute gastritis or chronic gastritis, or other stomach diseases such as stomach ulcers, the gastric mucosa will be damaged to a greater or lesser extent during the disease.
In order to minimize further damage, eating fine, soft, easily digestible white rice porridge, noodles, etc. is indeed "just needed" during special periods such as seizures and remission.
However, as long as the special period has passed, it is necessary to gradually supplement comprehensive nutrition, enhance the defense ability of the gastric mucosa and the body's immunity, which is the foundation of the long-term health of the stomach.
The stomach is an organ that "uses in and out", and eating soft, semi-liquid, liquid food for a long time will weaken its ability to digest and process food.
If you want to protect the stomach every day, there are 6 magic weapons:
1. Eat small and frequent meals, eat regularly, and do not overeat.
2. Chew slowly and swallow slowly, and the meal time of each meal is preferably more than 15 minutes.
3. Eat a little bit of all kinds of food.
In general, except for some special circumstances, such as: acute attack of stomach disease, stomach disease symptoms have not completely improved, or there are food allergies, food intolerances, special conditioning is required.
Healthy people need to be nutritious if they want a healthy stomach, including grains, vegetables, fruits, meat, milk, nuts and legumes. The dietary guidelines for Chinese residents recommend no less than 12 types of food per day and no less than 25 types per week.
4. Foods that are prone to flatulence, eat gradually.
For foods that are prone to flatulence, you can eat them gradually from less to more, and don't eat too much at once.
Such as sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, buckwheat, beans and other grains; broccoli, cabbage flowers, edamame, bitter melon and other vegetables; Almonds, almonds and other nuts.
5. Hard food should be eaten softly, and sticky food should be eaten less.
For example, to make multigrain rice, multigrain porridge, and miscellaneous bean porridge, you can soak the hard texture of the grain and beans in advance, and cook it with an electric pressure cooker.
Sticky bean buns, rice dumplings, which are not easy to digest, should also be eaten less.
6. Drink less espresso, wine, sugary drinks, gas-producing drinks (such as cola), strong tea, etc. Don't eat too spicy foods.