Have you ever eaten bran? Are there any consequences?

Bran ??is a rare thing.

One hundred pounds of rice can yield: 17-20 husk, 7-11 rice bran, and 70 rice.

Rice bran can be extracted into oil called "rice bran oil".

So most people cannot eat chaff. What is available in the market is flour ground from chaff.

"Bran" is edible and can be made into cakes, but it is rough and tasteless. The taste will be better if it is ground as fine as flour, and it will not affect digestion after eating. Back then, we tried to "remember the bitter and think of the sweet" Mix in some white radish and Kuniko and cook it together. It tastes like a delicacy even if you are hungry. As for the consequences, the person who ate the glutinous rice together was over ninety years old!

I ate it in 1965 at the "Reminiscing the Bitter and Thinking the Sweet" conference. I couldn't swallow it.

I ate it during the Cultural Revolution. It was made by the school and made with wheat. Made with fupi and elm leaves or potato leaves, it has a rough texture and there are no consequences after eating it!

Eat chaff. The consequence is that it cannot be pulled out.

When I was a child, my family was severely short of food because we had eight brothers and sisters, plus my parents and my elderly grandmother. Every time it’s meal time, my mother always lets those who can work and get work points eat first, and my brother and I always eat last, so that my brother once said to my mother: I want to grow up. Mom said: Isn’t it good to be small? When you are young, you don’t have to work. The younger brother said: Only when you grow up can you work and have enough to eat.

Although there was a serious food shortage at that time, my family did not eat chaff. My parents planted many pumpkins in the vegetable garden. Half of the house was filled with pumpkins, and they had to eat steamed pumpkins at least once a day. In the past, there was little salt and oil, and if you ate too much pumpkin, you would feel tired. So people joked: Pumpkin is sweet and pink, and you can’t stand upright if you eat too much.

Although bran has never been eaten in my family, we have eaten bran when the winter squash was gone. Bran is the layer of skin left after wheat is processed into flour. The bran contains a small amount of low-grade flour. My mother uses a basket to sift out the flour in the bran and adds it to the flour, mix well and eat together. The sifted bran is stir-fried in a pot with a little oil and salt and used as a filling. Then the bran filling is wrapped in the mixed dough and baked into a pancake. As for the taste, I don’t need to say anything about it. You can guess it. As for the consequences, it takes a long time to go to the toilet.

Now our living conditions are very good, but I will not waste any food, because I have eaten bran that is similar to bran, and it is really not delicious.

Pure bran has never been eaten. It's not for any other reason than that it can't be processed into food at all.

In rural areas, chaff is divided into two types: the chaff taken from the ears of grain is called coarse chaff. This stuff is too light and difficult to digest. Generally no one eats it. In most cases, it is fed to ruminants such as cattle and sheep. Their digestive systems are well developed and have the ability to digest cellulose.

The chaff obtained by milling rice is called fine chaff. I have eaten this bran before. Because at that time, the rations given to the family were not enough to eat. Without eating bran and grits (the unground residue left after grinding sorghum flour, which is thick and difficult to swallow), I was very hungry. When these two things are mixed with water, they are scattered and do not stick together at all. You can only grab some sorghum noodles or cornmeal, mash them together, pat them into a vegetable nest with your hands, put them into a steamer and steam them out to eat.

When eating, without rice soup or water, most of them cannot be swallowed. The astringent feeling is like a cat's tongue licking your throat. The rough feeling is really uncomfortable. But after eating it, I am not hungry anymore. But my head was still dizzy as if I was extremely hungry.

Two or three days later, trouble came: my stomach felt uncomfortable and I wanted to poop, but I couldn’t poop out! The adults told me to drink more water, but no matter how much I drank, it didn't matter. I peed several times, and the hard shit was still sticking out of my butt hole!

I had to find someone to help: the conditions at home of my friends were all similar. So experienced people took a thin wooden stick and helped people who couldn't pull it out to dig out their buttholes. After pulling out a few dried feces balls, they can be pulled out in most cases.

People who don’t eat vegetables are not so lucky. My butthole was bleeding, but I still couldn't pull it out. I can only go to the health center and the doctor will prescribe some senna leaves soaked in water to drink. There was once a joke like this: There was a young man who couldn't pull out the bran, so the doctor prescribed him laxatives. My stomach hurts after eating it and I can't poop out. At night, the couple went to the toilet to dig out their buttholes with a flashlight. After picking out a few balls, the thin shit inside sprayed all over his wife's neck...

In the north, millet is usually Refers to unhulled millet, and bran generally refers to the outer shell of the millet.

When millet is ground into millet, the outermost skin falls off first. This layer of bran is very rough and is generally not needed. Continue to grind until the inner skin of the millet falls off. This bran will be collected as feed material in the past. Of course, during famine years, they would also be eaten. Generally, they had to be mixed with some flour before they could be eaten. Otherwise, they would not hold together, making it difficult to make and swallow.

There is also bran, which is the outer skin that is sifted out when wheat is ground into flour. Compared with bran, bran is much finer and easier to swallow. Generally, it needs to be mixed with some flour to make it easier to eat. When I was a kid, I ate steamed buns made with pure bran. Apart from being rough, I didn’t find them unpalatable. In the past, when material was scarce, it was good to have enough to eat.

There are no adverse consequences after eating bran or bran, but it is too rough and difficult to swallow. In addition, bran has very few nutrients and cannot be fully digested after eating. There is a saying in the past: Eat chaff and poop every day, and then be blown away by a gust of wind.

After eating it, my body is very strong and strong!

I ate it when I was a child, and I thought it was okay. As the saying goes: when you are hungry, eating bran is as sweet as honey, but when you are full, drinking honey is not as sweet.