I buy whole grains, what are whole grains?

Whole grains are rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, and potatoes. As early as the Yellow Emperor's internal classics, he put forward the principle of five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five animals for benefit, five vegetables for filling, and the smell of the whole food, so as to replenish the lean qi of the principle of dietary nourishment, and also illustrated the dominant position of cereals in the diet.

Rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, potatoes, and grains other than rice and flour are also customarily called miscellaneous grains, and cereals also refer to grain crops, so grains are also a general term for grain crops.

The nutritional value of whole grains

The five grains in the Yellow Emperor's Neijing are our staple food, which is necessary for our daily diet, and is at the bottom of the nutrition pyramid. It is said that the five grains are for nourishment, the five fruits are for help, the five animals are for the benefit, and the five vegetables are for the filling. This balanced view of the diet shows that whole grains are the foundation of the diet and the cornerstone of health.

In addition to being the staple food of Chinese, a good companion of the stomach, and the main ** of vitality, whole grains also have many benefits for the human body. In the food structure of the Chinese people's dietary pyramid, bread, cereals, rice and pasta account for 50% to 60% of the food proportion. Whole grains are very rich in nutrients.

The cellulose and minerals are several times that of ordinary white rice, and the vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, and trace elements such as calcium, potassium, iron, and zinc are rich treasures. Whole grains are the main source of dietary fiber, and many whole grains have a large amount of unsaturated fatty acids that can lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

As a result, it can provide almost most of the nutrients necessary for the human body, and can be said to be the most nutritious food group. Whole grains are the cornerstone of the diet. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, relevant scholars have continued to study the nutrients contained in cereals, and integrate them into the dietary therapy of traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine, and can be combined with other ingredients and medicinal materials to enhance the benefits to the human body.

Whole grains include rice, wheat, corn, soybeans and potatoes. Soybeans, wheat, barley and miscellaneous grains are more extensive, such as: sorghum, millet, buckwheat (tartary buckwheat), oats (wheat), barley, millet, barley, barley, amaranth and potatoes and kidney beans (kidney beans), mung beans, adzuki beans (red beans, red beans), broad beans, peas, cowpeas, lentils (soldier beans), black beans, etc.

Whole grains are now said in many ways; Five grains refer to: rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, potatoes, but also habitually call grains other than rice and flour grains, in the "Yellow Emperor Neijing", the five grains are called: "japonica rice, adzuki beans, wheat, soybeans, yellow millet", and in the "Mencius Tengwen Gong" called the five grains as "rice, millet, millet, wheat, soybeans", in the Buddhist sacrifice also called the five grains "barley, wheat, rice, adzuki beans, flax", and then Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that there are 33 kinds of cereals, 14 kinds of beans, There are 47 species in total.

There is also a saying that grains generally refer to five types of crops, that is, "hanging, vine, root, horn, and ear", which also shows that it is difficult to start shipping cereals, and now cereals have been redefined. Now the five grains, the five grains are positioned, rice, wheat, sorghum, millet, soybeans, among these five grains, rice is the main food we have to eat every day, the rest of the soybeans are the same, the remaining wheat, high branches, millet is very difficult to see. Rice is the staple food that we can't do without every day, and it is also one of the staple foods that everyone likes to eat, and rice has a lot of planting areas in China, the most famous is Wuchang rice, which is popular because it is called "China's best rice" by "China on the tip of the tongue", and the unique climatic conditions in Wuchang area make the local harvested rice full of grains, hard texture, rich fragrance, high nutrients, and is deeply loved by everyone.

Moreover, Wuchang rice is fragrant after cooking, and it tastes soft and glutinous, and it is the best choice for entertaining families and guests during festivals!

Recipe for cornmeal porridge: Mix the cornmeal with water to form a paste, and when the water in the pot boils, pour in the corn paste. Stir while pouring, and cook for a while after the porridge is boiling.

Laba Congee: Laba Congee is a traditional congee, and its ingredients vary slightly depending on the region and taste. The method adds pearl rice, barley, black rice, and some also put ginkgo seeds, lilies, lotus seeds, longan, mung beans, flower beans, etc., and then candied food.

In addition, you can make homemade black rice flower porridge, two rice porridge (put millet and rice together to cook porridge), millet mung bean porridge, millet brown sugar porridge, millet yam porridge, sweet potato porridge, pumpkin porridge, etc.

The five grains "millet, millet, wheat, mushroom, and rice" refer to the following:

1. Millet: Millet shelled, that is, yellow rice, its seeds are sticky after cooking, and can be used to make wine and cakes. Because it is not conducive to digestion, "millet" is basically not used as a staple food now.

2. Millet: also known as millet, the growth is drought tolerant, there are many varieties, commonly known as "millet has five colors", there are white, red, yellow, black, orange, purple millet of various colors, and there are also sticky millet.

3. Wheat, a class of grasses, a kind of grains, divided into wheat, barley and other types.

4. Shu: a general term for beans, as the old saying goes: "The former Jane "is the strongest."

The ancient name is 尗, the Chinese name is the bean, and the word is now Shu. The general name of the beans. However, soybeans are called soybeans, bean seedlings are called Huo, and small beans are called wattles.

Bean products are also one of the favorite foods of the Chinese people.

5. Rice is a kind of cereal crop with straight stem of the grass family, and the main type is "rice" (which has always referred to light rice) with soil cultivation.

Extended information: 1. The grain culture plays an important role and can be described as the origin of human civilization. According to authoritative data, human beings have observed traces of sorghum on stone tools hundreds of thousands of years ago, indicating that grains have given birth to human beings for more than 100,000 years.

It cannot but be said to be a feat in the history of mankind that human beings have cultivated wild weeds into cereals, which gave birth to human civilization. At the same time, it tells the world that human beings have an indissoluble relationship with grains. The grain painting is the highest artistic embodiment of the grain culture and the artistic portrayal of the grain culture.

2. Millet, millet and other crops in the five grains occupy a particularly important position in the primitive cultivation of the northern dryland because of their characteristics of drought tolerance, barrenness tolerance and short growth period. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the characteristics of "keeping the year easy to be" were discovered, and it also became an indispensable food for people at that time together with millet.

3. Grain paste is a powder made of various healthy grain raw materials after being roasted at low temperature, which is not puffed out and not added in the processing process, so it can retain the nutrients of the raw materials most completely.

4. Cereals mainly refer to the seeds of plants. It includes rice, wheat, soybeans, etc., and other miscellaneous grains, such as millet, black rice, buckwheat, oats, barley rice, sorghum, etc. Grains are processed as a staple food through the chain.

It mainly provides 50% 80% of calorie energy, 40% 70% protein, and more than 60% vitamin B1 to humans

Gu Tian Dream (Shandong Yuanhua E-commerce****) Answer:

In daily life, people say that eating more "whole grains" is good for health. Everyone knows that "cereals" is a synonym for grain crops, how did this come about?

The earliest appearance of the "five grains" in the ancient classics is Confucius's "Analects" more than 2,500 years ago, before that, such as the "Book of Songs" and so on, there is only the "hundred grains" statement, there is no "five grains" statement, which shows that the main food crops were determined in the period before Confucius, as for the "five grains" which kinds, the statements are different, but generally the same.

After the Han Dynasty, "five grains" basically refer to rice, millet (yellow rice), millet (sorghum), wheat, and soybean (soybean), which fully shows that before and after this period, these food crops were the main food of people**. With the development of society, the status of "five grains" in people's food is also changing, some have withdrawn from the category of major food crops, and some new crops such as corn, sweet potato, and potato that were introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty have become major food crops again.

At present, the "five grains" we call are mainly rice, soybeans, corn, wheat, and potatoes. They are no longer "five kinds", but "five types" of grain crops, which are the general term for grain crop transportation and slippery, and generally refer to all grain crops.

As for "miscellaneous grains", they are referred to as "miscellaneous grains" or "coarse grains" in addition to these two types, such as millet, Yuda rice, buckwheat, sorghum, oats, etc.

"Whole grains" has a more detailed classification and utility in Chinese health science, which is another science.