What is purple rice?

In our daily life, rice may have been heard to be our staple food, but some people have never seen purple rice. Purple rice is also a kind of rice, which is planted in some places with more water, such as Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou. It is a very precious rice variety.

Compared with ordinary rice, its particles are very uniform, so it is called purple rice because of its purple-black color. Purple rice is more slender and purple than ordinary rice, and has many functions such as benefiting qi and enriching blood, clearing away heat and relieving cough. The most obvious difference between purple rice and ordinary rice is that its skin has a purple-black substance, and the rice cooked by purple rice is sweet in normal life. Moreover, it feels soft and waxy. Purple rice is also known as the medicine valley among the people. The porridge cooked with it is very cool and sweet, with rich nutritional value.

Compared with ordinary food, purple rice is rich in various amino acids, especially lysine and tryptophan, and some mineral elements, such as calcium, iron and zinc. These trace elements are also very rich, but purple rice is difficult to cook, so it takes a long time to cook. The yield of black rice planted in Hunan Province of China is very high. Especially the purple rice in the purple magpie world has become the geographical symbol of national agricultural products. Eating some purple rice properly in daily life is very helpful to health. There are records about purple rice in Compendium of Materia Medica, which can nourish yin and tonify kidney, improve eyesight and promote blood circulation. When making purple rice porridge in daily life, you must not rub it hard, which may lose its nutritional value.

The above is purple rice for everyone. Purple rice and ordinary rice are both rice varieties, but compared with ordinary rice, they are rich in nutritional value and contain some trace elements and amino acids.

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