The custom of drinking Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month has long been circulated. On this day, every household must have a pot of porridge with a strong aroma. In the cold winter, a bowl of steaming laba porridge can bring warmth to the body. The Laba porridge is made from cereals, beans, nuts, and dried fruit. It can also be supplemented with various nutrients. It is a traditional health food for all ages!
In the dietary guidelines for Chinese residents, the first one mentioned: Food is varied, cereals are dominant. Laba porridge can be seen, the use of raw materials is in line with this dietary principle. However, how does the ingredients of Laba porridge match, and what is the role of nutrition and health care? How to make it more scientific and reasonable? What kind of dishes does Laba porridge match to make this food more comprehensive? Here we will introduce in detail.
Colorful ingredients in Laba porridge
First of all, it is how to mix the ingredients needed for Laba porridge. As we all know, there are many raw materials used in Laba porridge, ranging from 7 to 8, and as many as 20 to 30:
Cereals: glutinous rice, glutinous rice, brown rice, millet, wheat kernel, black rice, purple rice, glutinous rice, oats, buckwheat, glutinous rice, corn, etc.;
Beans: soybeans, black beans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, eyebrow beans, chickpeas, etc.;
Nuts: peanuts, walnuts, sesame seeds, almonds, chestnuts, etc.;
Dried fruit: dried longan, red dates, raisins, lotus seeds, wolfberry, etc.;
All kinds of ingredients make up the most?
Some foods also belong to dual-use medicine and food, such as jujube, Chinese wolfberry, lily, longan, etc. When we mix the eight-treasure porridge ingredients, it is best to add cereals + beans + nuts + plant seeds, five types of raw materials combined, different types The main nutrition provided can be complementary.
Such as cereals, beans, can make their respective limiting amino acids lysine, methionine get a good complement, cereals contain carbohydrates, proteins, B vitamins, minerals, etc., especially oats, brown rice, dietary fiber content Very high, cereals have a good effect on the spleen and stomach and make up for the benefits of Qi and Qi.
Beans are rich in plant protein, fat, phosphorus, calcium, etc., have beauty, prevent constipation, calcium health care; black beans to make up the spleen and kidney, eyesight, blood circulation and other health effects better;
Raisins and red dates provide vitamin C and iron, which can improve anemia, beautify the skin, and prevent colon cancer. Red dates, wolfberry, longan, etc. are very suitable for women;
Nuts are rich in B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, iron, zinc, and unsaturated fatty acids. In particular, almonds are rich in dietary fiber, and only the selenium contained in nuts is the most abundant;
Walnut kernel has brain and brainy effect, so when choosing ingredients, it is better to use some raw materials, which can enrich the nutrients, and combining together not only provides heat, but also has a very high health benefit to the human body. .
Different people drink Laba porridge
Old man - if there is an old man at home, you can put more walnuts, black beans, and wolfberry;
Diabetic people - if they have diabetes at home, they must put less foods that raise blood sugar, such as glutinous rice and glutinous rice, and add more brown rice, oats, almonds or more than half of the dietary fiber to control his blood sugar. rise;
Beauty - A friend of beauty-loving women does at home, putting more red dates, longans, and oysters;
Weight loss - if you are during weight loss, then put more beans with thick skin, kidney beans, red beans, and less easily digestible ingredients, can increase the number of times you eat chewing, satiety will be better Some, this will control the amount of food;
Children - If the children at home, love to eat rice pudding, you can add some raisins, melon, hawthorn cake;
Stomach Disorder: People with uncomfortable stomach and poor digestive function will have less choices of coarse fiber and miscellaneous dietary fiber, and put more glutinous rice, glutinous rice, and millet for digestion. .
How to better make eight-treasure porridge
We all know that the ingredients used in Babao porridge are very rich, but their individual size, hardness, and texture are different, and the maturation time during cooking is also different.
We now lack B vitamins in many people. B vitamins are concentrated in cereals and beans. The more it loses as it heats, the more it loses.
Some people will say that adding some alkali to the porridge will shorten the cooking time of these hard-to-boil ingredients. However, alkali also has a great destructive effect on B vitamins, which can reduce the preservation of B vitamins in porridge. Rate, this method is not desirable, it is also advocated.
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