What are the eight authentic eight-treasure porridge materials?

Japonica rice, glutinous rice, black glutinous rice, mung beans, lentils, red dates, peanuts and lotus seeds.

Eight-treasure porridge, also called Laba porridge, is a traditional festival food in China. It is a kind of porridge cooked with various ingredients on Laba Festival. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, resolving food stagnation, reducing weight, benefiting qi and tranquilizing mind. It can be used for dietotherapy of obesity and neurasthenia, and can also be used as daily health food.

The traditional practice of Laba porridge is to pick up and wash highland barley, white kidney beans, red beans and mung beans, cook them until they are half cooked, then put them into rice, millet and yellow rice, and then cook them with slow fire. Porridge is moderate in thickness. Add sugar when eating and mix with pre-cooked red dates and chestnuts. Generally, there are peanuts, dates, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, lotus seeds, lilies, longan pulp, raisins and all kinds of rice and beans. Nuts are rich in essential fatty acids, trace elements and vitamins. The selected traditional Chinese medicines also have the functions of nourishing, conditioning and strengthening the body. Mixed cereals porridge can give full play to the complementary role of amino acids, learn from each other's strengths and improve the utilization rate of protein.