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New year cake (nián-gāo, new year cake; Rice cake) is a traditional food of the Chinese nation, which belongs to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year. A cake steamed from glutinous rice or rice flour. During the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes.

The rice cake contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, nicotinic acid, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and other healthy elements. The rice cake is not only sweet and delicious, but also nutritious, and has the functions of fitness and disease elimination.

Each 100g rice cake contains protein 6.5g, fat 1.3g, carbohydrate 80.3g, calcium 19mg, phosphorus 155mg and iron 6.7mg. In addition, the rice cake also contains vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid and so on. It is a nutritious, mild and nourishing food.

The glutinous rice contained in the rice cake is a kind of nutritious food rich in vitamin B family, which has the effects of warming the spleen and stomach and invigorating the middle qi. Rice cakes contain a lot of calcium, which can promote the development of human bones, maintain the shape and hardness of bones, and have the function of nourishing bones and strengthening teeth.

The rice cake contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid and starch. It is nutritious and a warm and strong food. Rice cakes contain a lot of potassium, so people can eat some rice cakes to supplement potassium. The main function of potassium in human body is to maintain acid-base balance, participate in human energy metabolism and maintain the normal function of neuromuscular.

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Edible efficacy

1, supplementary nutrition: rice cakes are rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, calcium, iron and phosphorus. Among them, phosphorus can assist starch and fat metabolism, provide heat and restore physical strength; Rich B vitamins can promote appetite and improve the nervous system.

2. Relieve frequent urination: The rice cake has obvious convergence effect. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rice cakes have the function of astringent and antiperspirant. Therefore, friends who urinate frequently and sweat a lot can often eat rice cakes, which can prevent diseases and strengthen the body.

3. Strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach: the rice cake is warm and flat, which can warm the spleen and stomach and replenish the middle qi, and has a certain relieving effect on spleen and stomach deficiency, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea. Therefore, there is an old saying that "rice cake porridge is a wonderful product for warming and nourishing the stomach".

4, Buzhong Yiqi: The rice cake has the functions of Buzhong Yiqi, Jianpi Yangwei, diarrhea, digestion and absorption, and has a soothing effect on symptoms such as weakness of the spleen and stomach, postpartum hyperhidrosis, postpartum dysentery, etc., and it also has an improvement effect on night sweats, blood deficiency and dizziness caused by physical weakness.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-rice cake