Is rice or pasta more nutritious?

Generally speaking, it is difficult to absolutely compare the advantages and disadvantages of rice and flour, and the specific nutritional value has a great relationship with varieties, producing areas, processing accuracy and cooking methods. ?

Because wheat and rice are two staple foods in the world, and they are both called flour and rice, you can hear arguments about whether rice is nutritious or whether wheat is nutritious in many parts of the world. ?

People have deep feelings for themselves from snacks, a staple food, and naturally they will find many reasons to praise it. People who love rice say that rice tastes good and tastes fragrant, which is most suitable for cooking well; People who love noodles say that there are many ways to make noodles, and even if there are not many dishes, they can eat them with relish. Northerners say that wheat has raised a stout northeast man; Southerners say that rice has raised beautiful girls in the south of the Yangtze River. It's hard to decide which is better. You can eat anything you like. ?

In Japan, this debate is not held in ordinary people's homes, but is discussed by nutritionists, which has a great influence on the national diet. ? A hundred years ago, the Japanese were known as "Little Japan". Being short makes people laugh, and I feel inferior in front of tall Europeans and Americans. In order to solve the problem that Japanese people are too short, Japanese scientists have used their brains. Nutritionists soon focused on the staple food: Europeans and Americans take bread as the staple food, while Japanese eat rice. Maybe there are some factors in bread that promote physical strength. Therefore, the Japanese government first ordered an increase in the proportion of pasta in military meals. This move did not effectively increase the height, but it had another big gain: the original rampant beriberi was controlled and the combat effectiveness of the army was greatly improved. ?

In this regard, flour is indeed superior to rice. Wheat contains more vitamin B 1, and people who live on flour are less likely to suffer from beriberi. The content of this vitamin in rice is only about half that of wheat. Eating less non-staple food is prone to vitamin B 1 deficiency. ?

After World War II, Japan was strongly influenced by western culture, and the intake of pasta was increasing. Many people think that the protein content of wheat is higher than that of rice, and eating more flour is helpful to improve the national physique. Some people even say that eating more bread makes people smart. So at that time, rice was ignored by people, and there was a problem that old rice could not handle. ?

However, after 1980s, Japanese nutritionists began to advocate rice as the staple food. They say that if the nutritional value of rice flour is not high, it is at least as good as flour. ?

As far as the degree of digestion is concerned, there is no difference between rice and pasta, both of which are easy to digest. But by weight, the water content of rice is higher than that of steamed bread, pancakes and other pasta, so the heat energy per unit weight is relatively low. This may be the reason why some people complain that eating pasta is easy to get fat. ?

As for protein, although the quantity of protein is higher than that of rice, the quality of protein is lower than that of rice. Because noodles contain 40% "gliadin", in which lysine is seriously lacking; The content of "gliadin" in rice is less than 20%, and the biological value of rice protein is higher in common grains. With this comparison, the utilization ratio of rice and flour in protein is even again. ?

Let's talk about vitamins first. When the living standard is low and there are few non-staple foods, eating rice is really prone to malnutrition. But now all kinds of chickens, fish, meat and eggs are eaten in different ways. Vitamin b? 1 is no longer a big problem. At this time, it is difficult to reflect the advantages of pasta. ?

The most important reason is that rice is made in China and totally depends on imports. Eating with foreign goods is always uneasy, and it is easy to make the country subject to people. Therefore, Japanese nutritionists strongly advocate maintaining the traditional habit of eating rice, and the government has also made many efforts: raising the price of flour, limiting the proportion of pasta in school lunches, and publicizing the advantages of domestic rice. ?

In many poor areas of our country, life has not yet reached the level of affluence, and there are few other foods except staple food. At this time, flour still has certain advantages over rice, which helps to prevent various nutritional deficiencies. ?

Generally speaking, it is difficult to absolutely compare the advantages and disadvantages of rice and flour, and the specific nutritional value has a great relationship with varieties, producing areas, processing accuracy and cooking methods. ?

Therefore, people who eat rice don't have to refuse rice for the sake of "good nutrition of noodles" and eat pasta instead; People who eat noodles don't have to refuse to eat noodles because of the high lysine content in rice. For people, it is best to eat a variety of foods, whether it is rice, noodles or coarse grains, and change them frequently. On this basis, as long as the cooking is reasonable and the staple food is reasonably matched with other foods, enough nutrition can be obtained.