Do you know what the old man called "rice oil"?
It is rumored that in the past, when the material conditions were poor, no matter whether the elderly in the family were sick or the children were sick, they would boil "rice oil" to eat if they had a bad appetite, and even many people regarded it as the "first tonic", and there was a saying that rice oil was comparable to "ginseng soup".
The rice oil referred to here is a very delicate, viscous, paste-like substance floating on the top layer when boiling porridge. Of course, no matter what kind of porridge you boil, rice porridge, millet porridge, and multigrain porridge, there will be such a layer of rice oil.
Rice oil, is it really so amazing?
The biggest reason why the elderly feel that rice oil has a good health effect is because of its high nutritional value. However, from the perspective of modern nutrition, no matter what kind of rice oil, this ingredient contains starch, water-soluble protein, free amino acids, a variety of minerals, and some water-soluble vitamins.
If you look at the above nutrients, in fact, they already exist in the food itself, such as millet porridge, millet rice oil and millet porridge compared with millet porridge, there is no outstanding advantage, let alone ginseng soup, on the contrary, its nutrition is not as good as drinking millet porridge directly.
Therefore, if you prefer rice oil, you don't have to, drink it, and don't drink porridge directly.
At the same time, it is not recommended to drink rice porridge, which has been processed many times, and most of the vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber have been removed, and in the end all that is left is rice with a higher carbohydrate content, which is why it tastes better.
And such rice, boiled into rice porridge, because it is easy to be digested and absorbed by the body, it is not recommended for everyone to eat it for a long time or in excess. Compared with rice porridge, millet porridge or small rice is a better choice.
What is the nutritional value of millets?
Although rice and millet are both staple foods that we eat daily, millet is relatively low in terms of carbohydrate content, and millet has a high protein content and also contains a variety of essential amino acids required by the human body, which can provide more nutrients for the body.
Not only that, judging from the "Chinese Food Nutrition Facts List", millet also contains more vitamin E, which is more than 3 times that of rice, and has a variety of benefits such as antioxidant, beauty and skin care, anti-itching and moisturizing.
In addition, many of the minerals, especially magnesium and potassium, are far higher than the mineral content of rice. If it is such millet porridge, it can be drunk in moderation when the stomach is weak, and its nutritional value is higher than that of rice.
In addition, traditional Chinese medicine believes that millet enters the three meridians of the spleen, stomach and kidney, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish the middle and invigorate qi, and is very suitable for people with gastric ulcers and gastritis.