Food made of grains and cereals

Shandong Yuanhua E-commerce Co., Ltd. answer: the ancients called "five grains" is a kind of generalization, is not limited to five. Grains and cereals is a "big family", such as indica rice, broomcorn, millet, corn, buckwheat, black beans, broad beans, red beans, mung beans and sweet potatoes, etc., a variety of coarse and fine grains and beans are grains and so on. Grains are the traditional staple food of our people, especially rice, millet is the most important.

Rice is the staple food in people's daily lives, whether it is a family meal or go to the restaurant, rice is essential. The main nutrients of rice are protein, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose, fructose, maltose, vitamin B2, etc. It provides 27% of the energy and 20% of the protein in people's diets, and is also a good source of vitamin B1, riboflavin, and niacin, which are needed by the human body.

The Chinese medicine believes that rice is sweet and flat, there is a tonic in the gas, strengthen the spleen and stomach, benefit the essence of strong will, and the five viscera, through the bloodstream, bright eyes and ears, to stop boredom, thirst, diarrhea, Chinese medicine, there is a northern Japonica cool, southern Japonica warm, red Japonica hot, white Japonica cool, new Japonica hot, old Japonica cool said. One of the black Japonica crystal soft, nutritious, containing 16 kinds of amino acids and iron, molybdenum, zinc and other trace elements and vitamin B1, vitamin B12 and other nutrients, the protein content is higher than ordinary rice.

Eating method: rice with water or boiled into rice is the simplest way to cook porridge, the most nutritious, suitable for both young and old. There are also crushed rice to make rice cakes, rice noodles, rolls of flour. In Guangdong, rice noodles are made by grinding the rice into pulp, spreading it in a cage drawer and steaming it out, then dripping it with vegetable oil and rolling it up, cutting it into sections with a knife, and putting some soy sauce and sesame oil on it for dipping and eating.

Black rice is the most suitable for fall and winter nourishment. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: black rice has nourishing yin and tonic kidney, spleen and warm liver, eyesight and blood effect, in the fall and winter, whether it is porridge or soup, is a nourishing good.

Glutinous rice, also known as river rice, is very nutritious, containing protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B and starch, etc., is a mild tonic.

The Chinese medicine believes that its taste is sweet, warm, into the spleen, stomach, lung meridian, the main function is to tonify the middle, warming the spleen and stomach effect, can replenish the body's positive qi, the most suitable for consumption in the fall and winter. The Classic of Materia Medica says that glutinous rice is "a grain that replenishes the spleen and stomach and benefits the lungs. If the spleen and stomach are replenished, then the middle will be warm and the stools will be solid. Warmth can nourish the qi, qi full of body from more heat".

Because it is sticky and slippery, it is often used to wrap dumplings or porridge and other snacks, loved. Li Shizhen said, "Glutinous rice is sticky, so it can be used to make wine, millet, steamed cake, soup and fried food."

For example, glutinous rice and red dates porridge can nourish the stomach and replenish deficiency, and is suitable for those who suffer from vague pain in the stomach and epigastric region caused by a deficiency of qi in the spleen and stomach, and who like to be warm and pressed.

But it should be noted that because of the sticky nature of glutinous rice, there is a certain astringent effect, so it is difficult to digest, eat more can help wet phlegm, damage to the spleen and stomach, so glutinous rice should not be eaten more.

Since the Qing Dynasty, corn is commonly known as "pearl rice", is also recognized as the world's "gold crop". Famous German nutritionist pointed out that in today's proven to be the most effective more than 50 kinds of nutritional health care substances, corn contains calcium, glutathione, vitamins, magnesium, selenium, vitamin E and fatty acids 7. According to Chinese medicine, corn is sweet and flat, with the spleen and dampness, appetite and wisdom, heart and blood, the main treatment of diarrhea, indigestion, edema and other symptoms.

Boiled fresh corn on the cob to eat, flavorful, light and easy to chew, glutinous corn and sweet corn are the best choice.

Roasted corn is boiled corn on the cob on a wooden stick in the fire roasted charcoal, some also sprinkled with powdered spices, the taste is very good. Cornmeal dumplings, buns and pies are also good for eating.

Europeans have even summarized the scientific way of eating:

One is tortilla. Mix garlic powder, black pepper and celery in cornmeal and blend it with tomato soup to lower cholesterol.

Two is polenta, which is also commonly consumed by the Chinese.

Third, corn kernels are used to make corn soup and salad, both delicious and nutritious. It is important to note that when eating corn, it is necessary to eat the tip of the embryo all the way in, because many of the nutrients of corn are concentrated here.

Soybean corn is a kind of Indian food, fresh corn kernels and soybeans mixed in the ratio of 3:1, add a few spoons of butter, pour in water, and then add the right amount of salt and pepper, with a low fire and cook slowly, until the water boiled dry can be eaten.

Millet is also known as corn, its porridge is rich in nutrients, so it is commonly known as "ginseng soup". Rich in protein, fat, calcium, iron, vitamin B1 and other nutrients, containing protein, fat are higher than rice, flour. Vitamin B1 content ranks first among all grains, with the function of preventing indigestion and mouth sores.

The Chinese medicine believes that millet is sweet and salty in nature, slightly cold, with and in the spleen in addition to heat, benefit the kidney qi make up for the loss of deficiency, diuretic role of swelling. And with millet made of potpourri (to burnt thick not paste for the best) taste sweet and flat, function of tonifying the spleen, eliminate accumulation and stop diarrhea. With millet bran made of millet bran oil and wind, insecticide, antipruritic, astringent effect.

There are three ways to eat millet:

One is porridge.

The second is to cook rice.

Third, it is ground into millet noodles and steamed.

These three ways of eating, each with its own flavor, but to cook porridge to eat the best. Millet porridge is not only tasty, but also nutritious, comprehensive, "generation of ginseng soup" of the name, especially suitable for poor appetite, gastrointestinal problems and anemia of people to eat.

Patients with diarrhea can use millet 50 to 100 grams, 15 to 20 grams of Chinese yam, jujube 5 to 10. *** cooked porridge serving. Daily consumption can also be cooked with beans porridge, millet, purple rice, corn, red beans, mung beans, peanut beans, red dates can be cooked together until viscous.

Ancient books record that since five thousand years, the Chinese have cultivated sorghum varieties in the Yellow River basin and planted large areas for production, which is a very ancient food.

Sorghum rice, since ancient times, "the essence of the five grains", "the longest of all grains" reputation, but also known as "hardcore crops". Which contains fat, iron content than rice; contains tannins, astringent solid off the role.

The Chinese medicine believes that sorghum is sweet and warm, and has the effect of stomach, spleen, eliminating accumulation, warming, astringent stomach and intestines.

For children's indigestion caused by food accumulation, there is a prescription is to put some food oil in the pot, and then the sorghum flour fried, can be appropriate to add some sugar and sesame seeds, water into a paste.

The soybean is a specialty of our country, and is known as "plant meat" and "green dairy cattle". Why did soybeans get such a title?

This is because soybeans contain a lot of protein, in 500 grams of soybeans in the protein content is equivalent to more than 1,000 grams of lean pork or 1,500 grams of eggs or 6,000 grams of rice protein content.

Soybeans also provide vitamins and saponins that slow down the aging of the body. Recently, experts have discovered that soybeans contain "plant sterols," which are similar to cholesterol and can be used to make hormones and cell membrane components. But "plant sterols" are not deposited in the blood vessel wall, in the intestinal tract before cholesterol and is absorbed, so the absorption of cholesterol to play a role in hindering. Soybeans because of its iron, calcium, phosphorus content is high, on the growth and development of children and adolescents and osteoporosis prone to the elderly and iron deficiency anemia patients, menopausal women are very suitable for consumption. According to Chinese medicine, soybean is sweet and flat, into the spleen, large intestine meridian, with the benefit of blood, spleen, wide middle, under the Qi Li large intestine, moistening and eliminating the efficacy of water.

It should be noted that soybean in the digestion and absorption process will produce too much gas caused by flatulence, so poor digestion, chronic digestive diseases should try to eat as little as possible; suffering from severe liver disease, renal disease, gout, peptic ulcer, low iodine should be banned; suffering from sores and acne should not be eaten during the soybean and its products.

The widely spread recipe is soybean stew pig's feet soup, can well meet the nutritional needs of pregnant women, but also can help lactation. Anemia patients can also eat it together with pig liver.

Black beans, also known as black beans, is a kind of soybean, and its taste is sweet, into the heart, liver, kidney. The Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "Black beans into the kidney work more, so it can cure water, eliminate flatulence, under the gas, the system of wind heat and blood detoxification." Modern medical research has also found that black beans contain soybean saponins, genistein and other substances, there is an antipyretic and nourishing role in stopping sweating.

Recommended therapeutic formula: black bean carp soup

Main ingredients: carp 1, black beans 30-50 grams.

Method of production: the first carp scales and internal organs, black beans into the fish belly sewing, water boiling and simmering until the fish rotten beans cooked into thick juice.

Description of usefulness: diuresis and swelling. Suitable for the lung, spleen, kidney three jiao qi and transformation disorder, resulting in yang qi is not full, water retention caused by head, face, limbs and epigastric and abdominal swelling, urination is not conducive to cold and like warmth and so on.

Sweet potato is a common and affordable nutritious health food, especially carotene content is extremely rich, is the best of the grain and vegetables. Sweet potato contains a mixture of polysaccharides and proteins composed of collagen and mucus polysaccharides - mucin, which helps to maintain the elasticity of the cardiovascular wall and prevent atherosclerosis, on the respiratory and digestive systems and joint cavities, plasma membrane cavities also have a good lubricating effect.

Sweet potato also has a characteristic that it belongs to the "physiological alkaline" food, rich in potassium, sodium and other elements, and rice, noodles, meat, eggs, etc. are "physiological acidic" food. Therefore, sweet potato with these foods *** with consumption, help to maintain the body's acid-base balance. Sweet potato in the rich plant fiber can increase the volume of feces, and good water absorption, can prevent constipation and intestinal diseases.

Chinese medicine believes that sweet potatoes are flat and sweet, function can be "tonic and blood and warm stomach, fat five organs. White skin and white flesh, benefit the lungs and gas, and produce fluids" ("Gleanings from the Materia Medica"). In Japan and China's some longevity area and longevity village, research found that the local people to sweet potato as a staple food, year-round consumption. Therefore, sweet potato is also known as "fitness and longevity" food.

Because the sweet potato starch particles are large, into the human gastrointestinal tract after the stimulation of gastric acid secretion, producing a large amount of carbon dioxide gas, causing bloating, hiccups, spitting acidic water, so, eat sweet potatoes should be steamed and boiled through, but also can be cut up sweet potatoes first placed in lightly salted water to soak for ten minutes and then steaming, or with rice, noodles, and beans **** cooking food.

Regurgitation pain, regurgitation, loose stools people avoid eating.

Intestinal dryness and constipation patients, you can cook several sweet potatoes, peeled and dipped in honey to eat.

Peanuts, commonly known as "peanuts". China's ancient legends, peanuts have nourishing life, longevity, and is known as the "fruit of life". As the folk proverb says, often eat peanuts can health, eat peanuts do not want to meat.

Peanuts and soybeans as nutritious, is a high-protein oil crops. Its protein content can be as high as 30% or so, its nutritional value can be comparable to animal food eggs, milk, lean meat, and easy to be absorbed and utilized by the body. Peanut kernel contains 8 kinds of essential amino acids, and the proportion is appropriate. Also rich in fat, lecithin, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin E, vitamin K, as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements. Regular consumption of peanuts can indeed play a role in nourishing life.

The medicinal value of peanuts is also very high. Zhao Xuemin in the Qing Dynasty in the "Compendium of Materia Medica Gleanings" wrote, peanut kernels "taste sweet gas aroma, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, dietary difficulties in the transportation of the appropriate. Eating can play appetizer, spleen, moisten the lungs, expectorant, clear the throat, replenish the qi and other effects, suitable for malnutrition, spleen and stomach disorders, cough and phlegm, lack of milk and other diseases.

According to modern medical research and clinical application, peanut oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, can make the human liver cholesterol decomposition into bile acids, and can enhance its excretion function, thus reducing cholesterol, and the prevention of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease of middle-aged and elderly people have obvious effects.

Folk also "raw peanuts stomach, boiled peanuts lungs, fried peanuts to protect the liver," said. Peanuts boiled with the highest nutrition. "Diannan Materia Medica" said peanuts "salt water to cure consumption, fried with dry fire line blood, treating the cold accumulation of abdominal belly pain. And fried peanuts or fried to eat, will make the peanut red coat contained in the glycerides and cetol ester components were destroyed in large quantities. Vinegar soaked peanuts are known as "heavenly fairies", because although peanuts contain unsaturated fatty acids that the human body needs, but after all, the lipid content is high, calories, greasy feeling, and by the vinegar in a variety of organic acids and neutralization, both to solve the greasy and fragrant.

In addition, peanut red coat can inhibit the dissolution of fibrin, promote platelet newborn, strengthen the contraction function of capillaries. Therefore, it can be used as a dietary therapy for thrombocytopenia and bleeding disorders such as hemoptysis in tuberculosis, bleeding in the urinary tract and bleeding gums.

Peanuts, although nutritious, but if the storage is not appropriate, it is very easy to moisture mold, producing highly carcinogenic aflatoxin, therefore, has been moldy peanut rice, should not eat.

Sesame, commonly known as "fat hemp", "hemp", "oil hemp". Native to Africa, the Han Dynasty Zhang Qian mission to the Western Regions, sesame brought to our country, so called hu ma. Because it contains more fat, also known as fat hemp.

Sesame as food and medicine, are widely used. Ancient books have many records of it. Shennong Ben Cao Jing" said sesame main treatment "injury in the weak, supplement the five organs, benefit strength, long muscles, fill the marrow brain. Ming Medical Records" said it has a firm sinews and bones, bright ears and eyes, resistance to hunger and thirst, prolonging life and other effects. Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty, said sesame "can make the body and face glossy, white hair is still black". These functions of sesame has been confirmed by modern medical theory and practice.

It has been determined that sesame contains a variety of nutrients, per 100 grams of sesame containing 21.9 grams of protein, 61.7 grams of fat, calcium 564 milligrams, 368 milligrams of phosphorus; in particular, the iron content is very high, per 100 grams can be as high as 50 milligrams. Therefore, the ancients said that sesame can "fill the essence", "benefit the marrow", "blood", the basis also lies here. In addition, sesame seeds also contain fat-soluble vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and so on. Sesame contains fat, most of the unsaturated fatty acids, especially important for the elderly.

Sesame rich in lecithin and linoleic acid, not only can treat atherosclerosis, brain, enhance memory, but also to prevent premature whitening of the hair, shedding and cosmetic moisturizing, maintaining and restoring youthful vitality of the role. Chinese medicine believes that sesame is a kind of nourishing medicine, has the effect of tonifying blood, generating fluids, moistening the intestines, lactation and hair and so on. It is suitable for weak body, premature whitening of hair, anemia, lack of fluid, constipation and dizziness and tinnitus. Research has found that sesame seeds also contain antioxidant element selenium, which has the function of enhancing cell resistance to harmful substances, thus playing a role in prolonging life.

Sesame is divided into black and white two kinds of, "take the oil to the white for the victory, serving to the black for good". Black sesame moistening down, white sesame regulating lungs. Consumption of black sesame, can slip the intestine to treat constipation, and has the role of moisturizing the skin.

The common way to eat sesame seeds is casual eating, adding pasta to eat, coleslaw sauce, baked goods, fried food sauce, snack filling sauce, dipping sugar gourd. Eating sesame seeds is best crushed before eating, not only has a fascinating aroma, but also helps the body to absorb, because sesame seeds are not easy to digest.