How to choose high-quality black rice?
Black rice contains more zinc, copper, manganese and other minerals than ordinary rice, and contains vitamin C, chlorophyll, anthocyanins, carotene and other ingredients that rice lacks. Therefore, it is more nutritious than ordinary rice. You get what you pay for. Because of the high edible value of black rice, its price is also much higher than that of ordinary rice. But how can I choose authentic black rice?
How to Choose Black Rice
1. Look: Authentic black rice is only black on the surface of the rice skin. Peel off the rice skin, the heart of the rice is white, the color of the rice grains is dark or light, and the color of dyed black rice is basically the same.
2. Smell: Authentic black rice has a natural rice fragrance after soaking in warm water, and dyed rice has no rice fragrance and peculiar smell.
3. Touch: Authentic black rice is brown rice, and there is a rice ditch on the rice.
4. Rubbing: Authentic rice does not fade, but only fades when washed, while dyed rice will generally fade when rubbed by hand.
How to cook black rice
Black rice is not as refined as white rice, but is mostly eaten directly in the form of brown rice after shelling. This coarser black rice is suitable for cooking porridge. Soak it before cooking porridge to fully absorb water. The water used to soak the rice should be cooked with the rice to preserve the nutrients in it. It can also be made into dim sum, dumplings, zongzi, bread, etc.
Contraindications and side effects of eating black rice
1. There is a tough seed coat wrapped around the outside of the rice grain, which is not easy to cook, so the black rice should be soaked overnight before cooking.
If black rice porridge is not cooked, not only most of the signature nutrients cannot be dissolved, but also it is easy to cause acute gastroenteritis after eating too much, especially for children with weak digestive function and the elderly and weak. Therefore, people with indigestion should not eat uncooked black rice. People with weak digestive ability after illness should not rush to eat black rice, but can eat some purple rice to recuperate.
2. People with weak digestive ability after illness should not rush to eat black rice, but can eat some purple rice to recuperate.
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