We have a wide area in China, and we have our own eating habits in meat and vegetables, but we are more unified in staple foods. Southerners mostly love to eat white rice, while northerners are mostly accustomed to eating noodles such as noodle steamed buns.
In recent years, with the repeated popularization of science by nutritionists, everyone has realized that they cannot always eat refined rice and fine noodles, and they must appropriately increase coarse grains on staple foods, so that the body is a healthy choice.
Among them, brown rice has become a more popular choice, and many people are accustomed to using brown rice instead of polished rice to cook porridge and steam rice. Brown rice is actually rice grains that are not completely dehulled and intact when processed. Compared with polished rice, brown rice has a much higher content of dietary fiber and B vitamins.
But is eating brown rice every day the right choice for health? Today's explosive nutrition class nutrition teacher, just talk to you: the elderly eat brown rice to stabilize blood sugar, healthy spleen and stomach, brown rice steaming do not make these mistakes.
Let's first talk about the benefits of eating brown rice regularly, everyone knows that diabetics should control the amount of staple foods they eat and avoid rising blood sugar too quickly after a meal.
The postprandial glycemic index of refined white rice is 82, especially the steamed white rice, which is particularly soft and rotten, although it is easy to digest and absorb, but the absorption rate is too fast, which will also lead to an increase in blood sugar. Brown rice, because it contains a lot of dietary fiber, has dropped its postprandial glycemic index to 68, which is much safer than white rice.
Brown rice is rich in vitamin E and B vitamins, which can play an antioxidant role in the body and delay the appearance of wrinkles and age spots on the skin.
While brown rice has these benefits, it doesn't mean that everyone eats brown rice regularly:
First of all, brown rice tastes relatively hard, and it is not easy to digest and absorb, usually eating polished rice is suddenly replaced by brown rice, and the stomach is difficult to adapt. The elderly themselves have gastrointestinal function degradation, or they have stomach ulcers and indigestion, and they are prone to flatulence and stomach pain.
Secondly, there are many types of coarse grains, in addition to brown rice, all kinds of black rice and miscellaneous beans are coarse grains. In addition, foods such as sweet potatoes, corn, and yam are high in starch and dietary fiber, rich in nutrients, and can also replace polished rice and white noodles as a staple food choice.
If the staple food only eats brown rice, the body's intake of nutrients is single, one will be bored after eating too much, and the other is easy to lead to malnutrition.
Finally, the nutritionist of the explosion nutrition class reminded everyone that because the taste of brown rice is too rough, it is difficult to quickly steam soft when steaming rice, and you can soak it in cold water overnight in advance, and then steam rice with soaked rice water. This will make the rice grains softer and worse, and will not let the nutrients be too lost.
Friends, do you like to eat brown rice? Do you still know what to pay attention to when eating brown rice? Leave a comment in the comments section below to share your life experience.