Introduction: Irregular eating habits, over time, lead to poor gastrointestinal health. Especially in the summer, bacteria multiply rapidly, and accidentally eating something unclean can easily cause stomach discomfort. Among all stomach-nourishing foods, millet is the most natural and has no side effects. For the elderly, the weak, the sick, and postpartum women, millet is the most ideal nourishing food. Loss of appetite? Come and replenish your body quickly.
Millet is slightly cool in nature and sweet in taste; it affects the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that millet has effects such as clearing heat and quenching thirst, strengthening the stomach and removing dampness, harmonizing the stomach and promoting sleep. It is more suitable for people with internal heat and a weak spleen and stomach. In the summer, when appetite is poor, eating millet can both stimulate the appetite and nourish the stomach.
Date Paste Millet Porridge
Many women in northern China like to cook porridge with millet and brown sugar to nourish their bodies after childbirth. Millet porridge is rich in nutritional value and is known as "ginseng soup". The reason millet is favored by postpartum women is that the iron content of millet is twice that of rice at the same weight. Due to its high iron content, it is greatly beneficial for postpartum women to nourish yin and blood.
In addition, because millet is rich in vitamins B1, B2, etc., it also has the function of preventing indigestion and mouth sores. Millet porridge is a healthy food that can be boiled alone, or with ingredients like red dates, red beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds, and lilies to make nutritious porridges with different flavors. For people with a weak spleen and stomach, or those who often have diarrhea in the summer, millet has a great tonic effect. Boiled with Chinese yam, it can strengthen the spleen and stomach; cooked with lotus seeds, it can warm the stomach to stop diarrhea; for those with poor appetite, millet can be cooked with glutinous rice and pig stomach; ground into flour, millet can be used to make delicious pastries.
Millet and Radish Porridge
The only drawback is that the protein content of millet is not as high as that of rice. Therefore, whether for postpartum women or the elderly and young, millet cannot be used as a staple food. It should be reasonably combined with other foods to avoid a lack of other nutrients.
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