The little girl lives alone for a long time and "only eats white rice". Is white rice not nutritious?

A fourth-grade girl in Luoyuan County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, lost her mother to cancer and her father had to work hard to make a living, leaving her unattended and eating only white rice every day. Local police and auxiliary police spontaneously tutored her in her homework.

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Many people may have said that white rice is junk food and has no nutrition. But for this little girl, white rice is an important food to sustain life.

Is white rice really devoid of nutrition? In fact, the nutritional composition of white rice is not single.

Although white rice has been refined, the husk, seed coat, endosperm and germ have been removed, leaving only the endosperm.

But it also contains most of the starch, a certain amount of protein, a small amount of fat, minerals, and vitamins. The nutritional content of white rice is 5% of that of whole grains with husk.

Rice is definitely not junk food, but a source of energy for us. Every 100 grams of rice contains 116 kcal (approximately one bowl).

It also provides the glucose needed for the brain to function when studying and working. A lack of it will affect efficiency, leading to memory loss, listlessness, irritability, etc.

Healthy eating of white rice: 1/3 ~1/2 whole grains + part white rice

Like some people in order to achieve the fastest weight loss speed, they don't eat rice or any staple food, which is absolutely not advisable.

However, for this fourth-grade girl's diet, it is a critical period of growth and development.

Eating only rice can lead to serious malnutrition problems, and the intake of protein, fat, minerals, vitamins, etc. will be seriously insufficient.

During childhood, we should still pay attention to the quality of our diet, including staple food + vegetables + meat, eggs, milk + fruits + nuts, so that children can grow up healthily.