Nutritional value of millet eight-treasure porridge

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Nutritional value of millet eight-treasure porridge

Millet Eight Treasure Porridge is the Golden Porridge with comprehensive nutrition. Millet Eight Treasure Porridge has always been known as the "Golden Porridge". For the elderly, the weak, the sick and pregnant women, millet is the most ideal tonic. Since millet does not need to be refined, it retains many vitamins and minerals. The content of protein, fat, calcium, etc. in it is higher than that of rice. Carotene, which is not found in general grains, is 0.12 mg per 100 grams of millet. The content of vitamin B1 ranks first among all grains. The iron content of millet of the same weight is twice that of rice, which is beneficial for nourishing yin and blood for pregnant women after childbirth.

Millet eight-treasure porridge is rich in nutrients

Millet is not only rich in nutrition, but also has the effect of nourishing the stomach. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that millet is sweet, salty, and cool in nature. It enters the kidney, spleen, and stomach meridians. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that millet "treats stomach nausea, heat dysentery, and can be eaten in porridge to benefit the dantian, replenish deficiency, and open the stomach." Therefore, it is very beneficial for the elderly who are weak and sick, have insufficient qi and blood, and have weak spleen and stomach. Experts bluntly say: "Millet is the best for nourishing people."

Although millet eight-treasure porridge is a very good method, in line with the principle of eating a variety of grains, potatoes, sweet potatoes, dates, lotus seeds, lilies, etc. can be added to millet porridge to balance its nutrition. In addition, since porridge foods are easily absorbed and cause blood sugar to rise rapidly, people with diabetes need to be more cautious when drinking porridge.

Ingredients for millet eight-treasure porridge

1/2 cup of millet, 2 liang of peanuts, 1 liang of dried longan, 1 liang of lotus seeds, 1 liang of mung beans, 1 liang of red beans, 1 liang of large red beans, 1 liang of coix seeds, 14 cups of water, 2 liang of rock sugar

How to make millet eight-treasure porridge

1. Wash the peanuts, steam them in an electric rice cooker for 1 hour and take them out; soak the mung beans and coix seeds in cold water for 2 hours and take them out; soak the red beans and big red beans in cold water for 5 hours and take them out for later use.

2. Take a deep pot, add 14 cups of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat, add the ingredients in step 1 and cook for 40 minutes, then add millet and dried longan and continue cooking for 20 minutes, finally season with rock sugar.