There is a young couple in Shanghai, Xiao Wang and Xiao Li. They have a habit of always having a bowl of hot white rice porridge for breakfast.
One day, Xiao Wang took out a bag of rice from the rice bowl at home and prepared to cook porridge for his wife. However, he found that the bag of rice had been stored for a long time, was somewhat damp, and smelled a little unfresh. But he felt that it was just damp and that it should be fine when cooked, so he began to cook porridge.
After the porridge was cooked, Xiao Wang and Xiao Li sat down to enjoy it. However, shortly after eating, both felt dizzy, nauseous and began to have diarrhea. They realized that the situation was not good and rushed to the hospital.
After examination, the doctor told them that it was because of food poisoning. It turns out that damp rice is prone to bacteria, mold, and their rice has been stored for a long time and is likely to have gone bad. Doctors warn them that spoiled food contains a lot of toxins and is extremely harmful to human health.
Putting these 4 kinds of food in porridge may be harmful to your health
1. Moldy peanuts: When peanuts encounter a poor storage environment, it is easy to mildew. Peanuts that undergo this change contain a harmful ingredient called aflatoxin, which is highly carcinogenic and can cause serious damage to the human liver and kidneys.
2. Spotted sweet potatoes: If sweet potatoes are attacked by black spot bacteria and grow spots, it will cause stomach discomfort, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating. Therefore, avoid eating sweet potatoes with spots.
3. Daylily with wine flavor: If the daylily has a wine flavor, it is red and black in color after drying, and it is soft and rotten after water, it should be discarded immediately, because such daylily may have mildew.
4. Shrimp skin with ammonia smell: The spoilage of shrimp skin will have an ammonia smell, which can increase the risk of cancer after ingestion. Therefore, once you find that the shrimp skin has a peculiar smell, you should throw it away immediately.
What kind of porridge is suitable for people with yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency, phlegm and dampness constitution?
1. People with yin deficiency should eat foods that nourish yin and moisten dryness, such as white fungus, wolfberry, mulberry, lotus seed, etc. These ingredients can nourish the lungs, nourish the liver and blood, nourish the kidney yin, and calm the nerves.
2. People with yang deficiency constitution should eat foods that warm and yang dissipate cold, such as millet, Huaishan, chestnuts, walnuts, cinnamon, jujubes, ginger shreds, etc. These ingredients can warm and replenish the heart, spleen and kidney, and can nourish yin and aphrodisiac.
3. People with qi deficiency should eat foods that nourish qi and nourish blood, such as astragalus, glutinous rice, jujube, ginger, etc. These ingredients can replenish qi and nourish blood, improve the function of the spleen and stomach, and invigorate the heart and yang.
3. People with phlegm and dampness constitution should eat foods that dispel dampness and phlegm, such as millet, Huaishan, Poria cocos, lotus seeds, fried barley, tangerine peel, etc. These ingredients can dissolve phlegm, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and dispel dampness and diuresis.
Extension: Can drinking porridge help the stomach?
The saying that drinking porridge can nourish the stomach is widely spread, especially in Guangdong. But in reality, porridge does not play a role in nourishing the stomach.
Although porridge is a semi-liquid food that does not require much chewing, it does not provide enough nutrients for the stomach and intestines, and drinking only porridge for a long time can also lead to malnutrition and gastrointestinal problems. In fact, the human digestive tract is a very powerful organ that is able to digest a wide variety of foods. Although drinking porridge can be digested faster, it does not mean that it is more friendly to the stomach. On the contrary, drinking only porridge for a long time can lead to problems such as decreased stomach acid and atrophy of the small intestinal mucosa.
For diseases such as gastroenteritis, drinking porridge does not protect the stomach and intestines. Instead, it is important to resume a proper diet as soon as possible so that gastrointestinal function can be restored as soon as possible.