What is your daily staple food?
I believe that many people's answers are either rice or pasta, and this kind of staple food has one thing in common, that is, they are all fine staple foods, such as refined rice and flour. If this pattern continues, it should be noted that excessive carbohydrate intake will only increase the risk of energy overabundance, malnutrition, and obesity.
Compared to this traditional staple food model, it is more recommended to break the stereotype and add more new members, such as black rice and quinoa introduced to you today, the nutritional value is beyond the ordinary, you really want to eat a little.
What are the advantages of black rice?
Black rice, although it looks like a grain with a black color, is a very rare variety of rice. According to relevant records, black rice is also an ingredient of the same origin as medicine and food, and it also has the titles of "longevity rice" and "blood tonic rice".
Coupled with the degree of superstition of mainlanders about black food, they all believe that black food has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the body. It has been confirmed in modern medicine that black rice can indeed strengthen the spleen and kidneys, nourish the liver and eyes, nourish qi and replenish blood, etc., and is suitable for groups with dry stool, unfavorable urination, loss of appetite, and weak spleen and stomach.
It is also worth mentioning that a large number of anthocyanins in black rice will make the rice purple or black because of it, and it is also a natural antioxidant ingredient, which has the effect of preventing atherosclerosis, delaying aging, and antioxidant.
In addition, studies at home and abroad have proved that the darker the black rice, the better its antioxidant effect and the best health effect. In addition, for diabetics, black rice is also a staple food for sugar control.
What are the advantages of quinoa?
Of course, quinoa is also a good whole grain, and it has many reputations such as "super grain", "nutritional gold", "mother of grains", and "food of the future". It has been reported that quinoa is not only suitable for diabetics, but also helps to increase the insulin growth factor in the plasma if it is added to the high-demand baby food, which is beneficial to the growth and development of infants.
In addition, quinoa has a variety of vitamins and minerals, and even compared to other whole grains, quinoa has better protein, vitamin E, potassium, iron, magnesium and other ingredients than the well-known oats.
In particular, the vitamin E, flavonoid polyphenols, etc. in quinoa are very prominent, and it is a good food crop for people with chronic diseases.
Finally, quinoa is not bad in taste like black rice, it can be cooked with rice, and it can also be used as a raw material for flour, such as quinoa noodles and quinoa flour, which is delicious and healthy, and can also control weight and blood sugar.