Tomorrow is Laba Festival. Every year, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, it is the traditional folk festival of our country, Laba Festival. Eating Laba porridge on Laba Festival, as a folk custom, is used to sacrifice ancestors and celebrate the harvest, which has been handed down till now. So do you know what ingredients Laba porridge is made of?
Yanjing's year old records & middot; Laba porridge: "Laba porridge is cooked in boiled water with yellow rice, white rice, jiangmi, millet, water chestnut, chestnut, hongjiangdou, peeled jujube mud, etc., and dyed with red peach kernel, almond, melon seed, peanut, hazelnut, pine nut and white sugar, brown sugar, trivial grape for spot dyeing. '.
It's cold and dry in winter. It's nutritious and delicious to eat a bowl of hot Laba porridge. It contains a variety of coarse grains, beans, nuts, seeds, dried fruits and other foods rich in vitamins, minerals, a variety of dietary fiber and antioxidant ingredients, which almost all have their own health care function, and are helpful for young people to strengthen their bodies or middle-aged and old people to control blood sugar, blood fat and so on. Laba porridge's cooking method is also very convenient, the pressure cooker can be done with one key, and the main food diversification can be realized easily. Therefore, we can not only diet Laba porridge in Laba, but also make this healthy and nutritious food on our table.
So for different people, what are the precautions for eating Laba porridge?
The old people can choose peanuts, walnuts and other nuts in their Laba porridge. Peanut is known as the "longevity fruit". It is rich in zinc, which can enhance brain memory and resist aging. Walnut kernel contains more protein, unsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants, which can strengthen the body and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Moreover, vitamin E contained in walnut kernel is recognized as the anti-aging vitamin.
Pregnant women in the early pregnancy generally have pregnancy reaction, eat easily digested food can reduce vomiting, Xiangnuo soft rotten Laba porridge is a good choice. During the middle and late pregnancy, the growth of the fetus is accelerated. It needs to supplement enough energy and increase the demand for iron and calcium. Some sesame, soybean and jujube rich in calcium can be added to the porridge, as well as black rice, soybean and nut materials rich in iron.
Children's Laba porridge can add more chopped nuts and dried fruits to increase the sweet flavor and help them happily eat this healthy food. When making Laba porridge, people with indigestion can consider less soybeans and black beans to prevent flatulence of stomach and intestines. They can put warm glutinous rice and stomach nourishing brown rice. Beans and other ingredients should be fully soaked before cooking, and they will be softer and easier to digest after cooking.
People with hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should try to reduce the amount of peanut with high oil content when making Laba porridge. It can put more coarse grains and beans which are rich in dietary fiber and can regulate blood lipid. Soybean has the function of reducing blood cholesterol and preventing cardiovascular disease. At the same time, we might as well add some cabbage and celery to the porridge, which not only enriches the ingredients and taste, but also increases the nutritional effect.
For diabetics, rice and glutinous rice with high glycemic index should be reduced or avoided as much as possible when cooking Laba porridge, instead of buckwheat, oatmeal, job's tears or barley; jujube, raisin and longan with rich sugar should be reduced or not. The chromium element in buckwheat can regulate the activity of insulin and reduce the blood sugar; the coarse grains such as oats and job's tears are rich in dietary fiber, which can slow down the rise of blood sugar after eating. At the same time, when making porridge, the water will be less and the porridge time will be shorter, which also has the effect of slowly increasing blood sugar. Diabetics should not put sugar in their Laba porridge. If they want sweet food, they can put some sweeteners such as xylitol.
In the congee spectrum written by Cai Yanshan, a nutritionist in the Qing Dynasty, it is said that Laba congee can regulate nutrition and is easy to absorb, which is a good food therapy product. Only reasonable choice and match with Laba porridge ingredients, can make everyone enjoy delicious, but also meet the requirements of balanced nutrition, more conducive to the health of the body.