Can I eat rice cakes during menstruation?

Female friends will experience some symptoms during their menstrual period, which bring them great pain, such as swelling of the whole body, irritability, poor appetite, loss of appetite and other symptoms. These are all related to the decline in female friends' immune function and digestive function during menstruation. Therefore, female friends during menstruation should eat more easily digestible foods. So, can you eat rice cakes during menstruation?

Rice cake is a food we are very familiar with. We have the custom of eating rice cake during the Chinese New Year. Rice cake is made of glutinous rice. Eating rice cake regularly can bring good health benefits and health-preserving effects. Let’s take a look at the introduction of rice cake below.

Nian gao (nián-gāo, rice cake; new year cake) is a traditional food of the Han nationality. It is a cake steamed from sticky rice or rice flour. In the Northeast region, it is steamed from yellow rice. It is a seasonal food during the Lunar New Year. During the Spring Festival, people in many parts of our country pay attention to eating rice cakes. Rice cakes come in two colors, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver. Rice cakes are also called "nianniangao", which is homophonic with "nianniangao", which means "higher every year", implying that people's work and life will improve year by year. Therefore, our ancestors wrote a poem about rice cake: "Rice cake has a profound meaning, its white color is like silver and its yellow color is like gold. People hope for good fortune in the coming years, and pray devoutly for wealth to come." There is also a traditional old Beijing brand named "Rice Cake Money". Cixi's water-milled rice cake is also extremely famous.

Introduction to rice cake knowledge

The rice cakes eaten during festivals are mostly seasonal foods made from glutinous rice (jiangmi) or glutinous rice flour, with different auxiliary ingredients added.

There are many kinds of rice cakes, the most representative ones include the white cake in the north, the yellow rice cake in the northern farmers' homes, the water-milled rice cake in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, and the red turtle cake in Taiwan. There are northern and southern flavors of rice cakes.

It is said that rice cakes were originally used for New Year's Eve sacrifices and New Year's Day offerings to ancestors, and later became a Spring Festival food.

Rice cake is not only a festive delicacy, but also brings new hope to people every year. As a poem from the late Qing dynasty said: "People are very ambitious, so they make food with homophonic sounds, hoping for a better year and a better harvest."

Nutritional analysis of rice cake

Rice cake contains nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium.

Rice cakes contain little water, are difficult to digest, and can easily cause phlegm after eating. Therefore, people suffering from indigestion, stomach, intestinal diseases and asthma should not eat too much.

In the above article, we introduced that female friends need to eat some easily digestible food during menstruation due to the decline of immune and digestive functions. The rice cake mentioned above is made of glutinous rice. Rice cake contains many nutrients needed by the human body, but rice cake is not easy to digest, so it is better to eat less during menstruation.