Can eating soup and rice regularly nourish the stomach?

With the increasing number of patients with stomach problems, everyone now realizes the importance of protecting stomach health in daily life, and diet is where everyone needs to pay special attention. Many places like to eat soaked rice, which is a relatively convenient and simple kind of meal. Therefore, some people now want to know whether eating soaked rice in soup regularly can nourish the stomach? Regarding this issue, let’s take a look at the analysis below.

In soaked rice, water is water and rice is rice, the two have not merged into one, and the rice grains are not loose, just like cooked rice. The rice grains in the porridge completely disintegrate and spread out, fully compatible with water.

When talking about the digestion characteristics of starch, we have to start with starch granules. In fact, natural starch exists in the form of starch granules. The starch is not scattered, but tightly packed together with a film on the outside. After adding water and cooking into rice, the rice grains absorb water and swell, becoming sticky, but the starch granules only swell and do not disintegrate. Only after sufficient cooking can the starch granules completely disintegrate, the starch molecules run out, make the water sticky, and make the rice grains and water blend into one. This is porridge. So, in terms of ease of digestion, porridge and rice are different.

Porridge basically does not require the stomach to do too much kneading work, it can be directly turned into chyme, and amylase can fully act on it, so it is easy to digest without chewing.

Rice soaking is different. It has not yet reached the state of porridge and needs to be chewed by the teeth before the stomach can turn it into chyme. However, when eating soaked rice, it feels similar to porridge and basically goes into the stomach without chewing. It is okay for people with strong stomach function, but for people with weak stomach, it becomes a heavy burden. Uncrushed rice grains will give the digestive juices in the small intestine more work to do.

Therefore, porridge has the function of nourishing the stomach, but soaked rice does not.

Can eating rice soaked in soup regularly nourish the stomach? Eating soaked rice frequently will actually have no effect on nourishing the stomach, and will instead cause certain harm to your stomach health. Therefore, I hope you don't eat soaked rice for a long time. You can drink more porridge on a daily basis. This kind of diet is more suitable for nourishing the stomach and can also prevent the occurrence of stomach diseases.