Many people have heard that "drinking millet porridge is good for the stomach." Especially after the holiday feast, there are many people want to drink a bowl of porridge, let the stomach rest. However, for different people, the effect of drinking millet porridge to nourish the stomach does not seem to be uniform. Some people feel particularly comfortable to drink millet porridge, which solves the problem of their stomach acid. But there are also people who drink millet porridge will have too much stomach acid very uncomfortable. Some people feel that millet porridge is good to digest, and some people say that millet porridge is not digested and will be swollen in the stomach. What the hell is going on here? Drink millet porridge in the end can nourish the stomach?

First of all, "nourishing the stomach" is not exactly defined. Each person's gastrointestinal condition is different, and the constitution is also different. For example, some have more stomach acid and some have less stomach acid. Some are gastric ulcers, some are atrophic gastritis, and some are just gastric motility. The situation is different, the right food is definitely different, the reaction to a food is different. It is not scientific to say that every patient with stomach disease should eat the same "stomach food".

It is more meaningful for individuals to listen to their own body's reactions than to listen to the legends of others. Your stomach won't lie to you. Feel comfortable millet porridge may wish to drink often, feel uncomfortable drink less or do not drink. On the other hand, the variety of millet and the cooking method of millet porridge are different, which may also have a considerable impact on the effect of "nourishing the stomach".

Soft, glutinous millet is good for people with low stomach acid

Some millet is more coarse and loose, some are more sticky, and even sticky millet, also known as "small yellow rice". For friends with less stomach acid, choose something soft and waxy. For people with sour stomach, don't choose sticky millet. At present, there are non-sticky varieties of different colors such as black millet, green millet, yellow millet and white millet on the market, of which white millet is best digested, and the darker the color of the varieties, the less suitable for friends with stomach acid.

Millet without fine grinding is good for restoring gastrointestinal function

If you only remove the shell of millet, without repeatedly grinding to remove the outer part, the nutritional value will be relatively high. Because less processing can retain the rich B vitamins and minerals in millet seeds, these nutrients are conducive to the recovery of gastrointestinal function.

However, less ground millet texture will be a little harder, need to cook longer, fully cooked soft, only suitable for people with indigestion. The millet that is more refined is particularly fast in water absorption, boiling for more than ten minutes, or even boiling for more than ten minutes, and then boiling for a few minutes, it is soft and rotten.

Adding alkali to porridge can lose B vitamins

The starch granules in millet are easy to boil under weak alkaline conditions. Tap water and clean water in the southern region belong to acidic water, and the millet porridge particles cooked out are not easy to soft rot, and the aroma is insufficient. In the north, weakly alkaline water is the main water, and the taste of millet porridge cooked out is much better.

Many people like to put a small amount of alkali when cooking millet porridge, this operation will lose vitamin B1 and B2, it is a pity; But for people with stomach problems, boiling some is easier to digest. Especially people with a lot of stomach acid, will feel more comfortable. Therefore, everything is not absolute, just pay attention to, drink alkali millet porridge, it is necessary to supplement some B vitamins from other ways.

Eating only pickles and porridge will cause malnutrition

Gastrointestinal health is closely related to the supply of protein, B vitamins, and various minerals.

In malnutrition, gastrointestinal health is difficult to repair. The vitamin and mineral content in millet is several times that of white rice, from this point of view, drinking millet porridge is conducive to gastrointestinal health.

However, the price of plant protein in millet is lower than that of rice and white noodles, and the limiting essential amino acid - lysine is seriously insufficient. Therefore, when eating millet porridge, it is necessary to cooperate with high-quality protein such as fish, eggs, milk and soy products to play the nutritional complementary role of protein in order to provide adequate nutritional support for gastrointestinal function repair.

In the end is millet porridge is good, or brown rice porridge is good, or oatmeal is good, or let your body to judge.

However, in any case, drinking them is better for health than drinking white rice porridge at a time.

You can also mix these ingredients together, such as millet oatmeal in the morning is convenient and delicious, and brown rice oatmeal in the evening is also delicious. After mixing, it is often possible to avoid the discomfort of a single ingredient.

Of course, but also with enough vegetables, fish, eggs and soy products. Some middle-aged and elderly people often drink only millet porridge and pickles in the morning and evening, which will cause malnutrition. Such a diet, it is difficult to make their stomach really good.