According to "Health and Life", rice is a staple food that most people cannot do without every day, but its cooking methods have always been very monotonous. In fact, by mixing some grains or vegetables into the rice, its nutritional value can be increased many times, and it will also have a certain therapeutic effect.
Pumpkin Rice: Pumpkin is highly nutritious, especially its carotene content ranks first among gourds. The pectin in it can increase the viscosity of the rice, slowing the absorption of carbohydrates, therefore, pumpkin rice is suitable for diabetics. In addition, the mannitol in pumpkin has a laxative effect, which can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to the human body and prevent colon cancer.
Black Fungus Rice: First, cook the rice until it is soft, then add black fungus to cook into rice or porridge. Black fungus is a highly nutritious gelatinous edible and medicinal fungus, rich in iron, and especially high in lysine and leucine. In recent years, it has been found to reduce blood viscosity and has a significant preventive effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Taro Rice: Add some taro to the rice and steam it into a meal. Taro has a fine and soft texture, is easy to digest, and is suitable for people with gastrointestinal diseases, tuberculosis, as well as the elderly and children. When constipated or with red and swollen skin in summer, eating taro rice can especially have a laxative and detoxifying effect. However, taro contains a lot of starch, and eating too much can easily cause bloating, so you should pay attention to the appropriate amount when eating.
Chinese Yam Rice: Add Chinese yam to the rice and cook it into rice or porridge. Chinese yam is rich in nutrition and has always been regarded as an excellent and affordable product for nourishing deficiency. Because it contains no fat itself, and the mucoprotein it contains can prevent fat deposition in the cardiovascular system and protect arterial vessels, it can prevent arteriosclerosis, and can also reduce subcutaneous fat and avoid obesity.
Sweet Potato Rice: It is a very good health food. Sweet potatoes are nutritious and have the effects of "tonifying deficiency and fatigue, replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and strengthening the kidneys". It contains more starch and cellulose, which can not only prevent constipation and reduce the incidence of colon cancer, but also help reduce the formation of cholesterol in the blood and prevent coronary heart disease. At the same time, it is also an alkaline food, which can neutralize the acidic substances produced by meat, eggs, rice, and flour, and regulate the body's acid-base balance.
Mung Bean Rice: It is a good product for relieving summer heat and cooling in summer. Mung beans are cool in nature and sweet in taste, and have the effects of clearing heat and removing summer heat, promoting urination and reducing swelling, moistening the throat and quenching thirst, and improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure. It can prevent and treat symptoms such as fever, thirst, irritability, and poor urination caused by heatstroke. When eating mixed rice, the most important thing is to cook it thoroughly and soft so that it can be better digested and absorbed. Especially beans are harder in texture, they must be cooked first, and then cooked with rice to avoid making "half-cooked rice".
Oatmeal Rice: Cooking rice or glutinous rice with oats into porridge or rice is a very good health food for the elderly. Oats contain more crude fiber and unsaturated fatty acids, which have the effects of lowering cholesterol, regulating triglycerides, and reducing blood viscosity. It can not only prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but also has a therapeutic effect on diabetes and constipation, and eating more can also help with weight loss.