“Choose ingredients according to your needs” to see which Laba porridge is suitable for you?

Today is Laba Festival, and there is a tradition of eating Laba porridge. In the cold Laba Festival, drinking a bowl of Laba porridge with rich ingredients, fragrant and glutinous can nourish the spleen and stomach, warm the body and strengthen the body. Li Hongzhu, associate researcher and medical health expert at Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, pointed out that the combination of Laba porridge is not fixed. The ingredients for cooking Laba porridge are very rich and have different effects. It is best for different groups of people to "select ingredients according to their needs" when drinking Laba porridge.

Diabetic patients: The ingredients for Laba porridge should be low in starch grains and beans, and the amount of porridge should be controlled, about half a small bowl, and no sugar should be added. Buckwheat, oatmeal, coix seed or pearl barley can be used as the main ingredients, and then a few of red beans, mung beans, black beans, kidney beans, millet, lotus seeds, walnut kernels, yam and almonds can be selected to make porridge together. Foods rich in dietary fiber in grains can lower blood sugar, especially the soluble fiber contained in oats, barley and some beans, which can form a sticky substance in the stomach, delaying the absorption of glucose and not causing a sudden rise in blood sugar after a meal.

Patients with esophageal reflux disease: People with esophageal reflux often experience symptoms of heartburn and acid reflux. You may wish to choose cereals such as millet, black rice, and coix seed, and add ingredients such as white fungus, lily, ginkgo, pumpkin, and yam. Try to avoid high-starch and high-protein foods.

People with functional dyspepsia: It is suitable to drink porridge made mainly of ingredients that strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as millet, pumpkin, yam, lotus seeds, and dates. It should be cooked for a longer time, made a little thicker, soft and palatable, and will not increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

People with weak spleen and stomach: Too much beans in Laba porridge is difficult to digest and can easily cause diarrhea. People with weak spleen and stomach need to reduce the amount of coarse grains and beans, and add glutinous rice, polished rice, longan, red beans, jujube and yam.

People with colds and fevers: People with colds and fevers are not suitable to eat Laba porridge containing high-protein and difficult-to-digest ingredients, so as not to aggravate the symptoms. Try to choose easily digestible ingredients such as rice, millet, pumpkin, and yam. (Reporter Liu Bo)