Is coarse grains good for your health?

The health of coarse grains depends on people's physique, which does not mean that all coarse grains are good things, nor that some coarse grains sold in supermarkets are healthy sacred products. Grain flour, just a product of marketing, represents a fashion, and it is not really so magical.

To know whether it is really good for your health depends on the type of coarse grains. Let me talk about several kinds of coarse grains: tuber sweet potato, yam and potato; Red beans, mung beans and soybeans of beans; Millet, oats and black rice are all called coarse grains. Hundreds of years ago, these coarse grains were high in yield, easy to grow and strong in growth ability, so that more people would not starve to death. Because there was no choice of land, they were planted in relatively poor areas and survived the famine.

So, people who lived on these coarse grains at that time had no pain at all, and their digestive system was excellent, and they could heal themselves without medical treatment? Obviously not. Take sweet potato as an example. Eating too much sweet potato will make people heartburn. The reason for this is that sweet potato has a high sugar content, which can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid. Moreover, when acid reflux reaches the esophagus, it will also produce sour water. In addition, if you eat raw sweet potato, it will be difficult to digest because the starch particles contained in it have not been decomposed at high temperature. (quote)

The health benefits of coarse grains can only be reflected when eaten with staple food. It's not just coarse grains that are particularly good for your health. The staple food is rice and flour. Eating coarse grains occasionally will be good for your health. Eating it all the time will only cause indigestion and malnutrition. In recent years, it has been publicized that miscellaneous grains are good for health, and the price is higher than the staple food. The reason for this popularity is that now that staple food is available, most people don't need to grow miscellaneous grains to cope with famine, and there are fewer and fewer miscellaneous grains in cities, giving people the illusion that miscellaneous grains are good things. In fact, it cannot replace the staple food.