Coix lachryma, commonly known as "Coix lachryma", is the seed of Coix lachryma. Because of its rich nutrition, it is a food suitable for all ages.
Coix seed is sweet and light, slightly cold, and has the effects of strengthening spleen and benefiting lung and clearing heat. Clinically, it has the functions of expelling wind and removing dampness, strengthening bones and muscles, invigorating qi and stomach, promoting diuresis and eliminating edema. It is an ancient medicinal crop in China, and its protein content is 5-8% higher than that of rice, wheat and corn. The fat content is 2-5%. Coix seed is a daily nourishing beauty product for middle-aged and elderly people, which has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and concentrating, and strengthening the spleen.
Black rice is rich in nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrate, B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron and zinc.
Black rice is a kind of rice used as medicine and food. Rice is of good quality, delicious and pure. High edible value, besides cooking porridge, it can also be used to make various nutritious foods and make wine. Modern medicine has proved that eating more black rice has the functions of stimulating appetite, invigorating spleen, warming liver, improving eyesight, promoting blood circulation, dredging menstruation, nourishing essence and tonifying deficiency, and has a good nourishing effect on juvenile gray hair, postpartum physical weakness of women, physical weakness after illness, anemia and kidney deficiency. Black rice contains more dietary fiber, and the digestion speed of starch is relatively slow, and the glycemic index is only 55 (white rice is 87). Therefore, eating black rice will not cause violent fluctuations in blood sugar like eating white rice. In addition, minerals such as potassium and magnesium in black rice are also beneficial to control blood pressure and reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, diabetics and patients with cardiovascular diseases can eat black rice as part of their diet.
Introduction to Xiaomi Xiaomi, China was called Xiaomi or millet in ancient times, also known as Liang, and northern China was called millet. It is millet, which belongs to Gramineae and is the finished product of shelled millet. The grain of rice is very small, yellow or yellow-white, hard in texture, and the finished product has a sweet taste. It is one of the staple foods of people in northern China. Because of its high nutritional value, millet contains protein 9, fat and vitamins. Besides being edible, it can also be used to make wine and maltose. The protein content of millet is higher than that of rice. The content of fat and carbohydrate is not lower than that of rice and wheat. It also contains carotene, which is not found in ordinary grains, and the content of vitamin B 1 ranks first among all grains.
Many women in northern China have a tradition of adding millet and brown sugar to regulate their health after giving birth. Millet porridge is rich in nutritional value and has the reputation of "replacing ginseng soup". The vitamin B 1 in millet can reach several times that of rice. The content of inorganic salts in millet is also higher than that in rice. It is also rich in fat, 7.8 times that of rice, mainly unsaturated fatty acids. Besides iron, millet also contains protein, vitamin B complex, calcium, potassium and fiber. The protein quality of millet is often better than that of wheat, rice and corn, but the content of lysine in essential amino acids is low.
Rice is the finished product of rice after washing, hulling, milling and finishing.
Rice contains about 75% carbohydrate, 7%-8% protein, and 0/.3%-1.8% fat, which is rich in B vitamins.
The carbohydrate in rice is mainly starch, and the protein in rice is mainly glutenin, followed by glutenin and globulin. Its protein biological value and amino acid composition ratio are higher than those of wheat, barley, millet, corn and other cereal crops, and its digestibility is 66.8%-83. 1%. It is also one of the higher cereal protein.
Therefore, edible rice has high nutritional value. However, the content of lysine and threonine in rice protein is less, so it is not completely protein, and its nutritional value is not as good as that of animal protein. But eating rice for lunch and dinner is better for people to lose weight than pasta. In the south of China, people generally take rice as their staple food, but it is very different in the north.
The fat content in rice is very small, and the fat in rice is mainly concentrated in rice bran. The linoleic acid content in the fat is relatively high, accounting for 34% of the total fat, which is 2-5 times higher than that of Lai seed oil and tea oil respectively. So eating rice bran oil has a good physiological function.