Introduction: Rice is the most common staple food we eat. We often distinguish rice by its texture, but we don't pay much attention to its types and their nutritional benefits. Today, let's explore the nutritional benefits of six different types of rice.
1. The most detoxifying is glutinous rice.
Glutinous rice, also known as Jiangmi, is loved by everyone for its fragrant, sticky, and smooth texture, often used to make snacks. Glutinous rice contains nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B2, and a large amount of starch.
2. The most nourishing is japonica rice.
The common rice used daily for making rice is also called japonica rice or milled rice. It is semi-transparent, oval or elliptical, has a high milling yield, small grain expansion, but high stickiness. As a daily food, japonica rice contains essential nutrients for the human body, such as starch, protein, fat, vitamin B1, niacin, vitamin C, and calcium and iron, providing the body with the necessary nutrition and calories.
It has a history of 2000 years in China to cook congee with japonica rice for health and longevity. Japonica rice has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, tonifying the middle qi, nourishing yin and promoting body fluids, relieving restlessness and thirst, and stopping diarrhea. It can be used for conditions such as spleen and stomach weakness, restlessness and thirst, malnutrition, and post-illness weakness. However, diabetics should be cautious not to eat too much.
Red Japonica Rice and Yam Porridge
3. The most digestive is brown rice.
So-called brown rice is the "light yellow rice" that removes the coarse bran hull during the milling process while retaining the germ and inner skin. The protein, fat, and vitamin content in brown rice is higher than in polished white rice. The crude fiber molecules in the bran layer help gastrointestinal motility and are effective for digestive diseases such as stomach problems, constipation, and hemorrhoids. Brown rice is more nutritious than polished white rice, can lower cholesterol, and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Brown rice is suitable for the general population, but because it has a coarser texture and is denser, it takes longer to cook. Guo Wanli suggests that it can be washed, soaked in cold water overnight before cooking, and then cooked in a pressure cooker for more than half an hour along with the soaking water.
4. The most kidney-tonifying is black rice.
Black rice is rich in nutrients, containing protein, fat, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, and other substances, with higher nutritional value than ordinary rice. It can significantly increase the content of human hemoglobin and hemoglobin, is beneficial to the health of the cardiovascular system, promotes bone and brain development in children, and can promote recovery for postpartum women and those who are weak after an illness. Therefore, it is an ideal nutritional health food.
Black Rice and Red Bean Soup
5. The most stomach-nourishing is millet.
Millet is also known as Liangmi, Sumi, or Suguo. It is rich in nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin B2, niacin, and calcium, phosphorus, iron. Because millet is very easy for the human body to digest and absorb, it is called "health rice" by nutrition experts.
Millet has the effects of strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the middle, benefiting kidney qi, clearing deficient heat, promoting urination, and treating restlessness and thirst. It is a good nutritional and therapeutic food for treating spleen and stomach weakness, general debility, damage to essence and blood, postpartum deficiency, and loss of appetite. Guo Wanli points out that because millet is slightly cool in nature, those with qi stagnation or a constitution that is slightly deficient and cold should not eat too much.
6. The most beautifying is Job's tears.
Job's tears is also known as Yirenmi or Yumi. Job's tears has high nutritional value and is hailed as the "king of world grass plants." Job's tears is rich in nutrients, including Job's tears oil, Job's tears fat, sterols, various amino acids such as arginine, vitamin B1, carbohydrates, and other nutrients. It has the effects of promoting urination to drain dampness, strengthening the spleen to stop diarrhea, and clearing heat and detoxifying.
Job's Tears, Lotus Seed, and Old Duck Soup