Introduction: Rice and steamed buns are two very common staple foods in our daily lives, but they are divided into two different regions. Northerners like to eat steamed buns, and southerners like to eat rice.
Regarding rice and steamed buns, it has always been a very controversial issue for us. Many people are very doubtful, why do northerners eat steamed buns? Do people in the south eat rice? As a person in a country, why do we have two staple foods?
The reason why this happens is due to our habits and geographical environment. The so-called "eating from the mountains and eating from the water". In ancient times, when people lived, they would use local ingredients and eat whatever ingredients were available locally. What ingredients.
However, the northern region is the main area for growing wheat, so flour is the most abundant there, so they mainly focus on pasta, but the southern region mainly grows rice, which is the raw material of rice, so the southern region is Rice is the staple food.
Whether it is steamed buns or rice, they are representatives of our country's food culture. They also represent the food habits of the southern and northern regions.
What are the differences between steamed buns and rice?
1. Differences in manufacturing materials
The biggest difference between rice and steamed buns is the difference in raw materials. The raw material for steamed buns eaten in the north is wheat.
When the wheat reaches harvest season, we will send the wheat to the factory for processing, process it into flour, and then process the flour into steamed buns.
The rice eaten in the southern region is made from rice, but when the rice is harvested in the southern region, they will cut the rice and process it into rice.
2. Differences in nutritional elements
In addition to the difference in raw materials, steamed buns and rice are also very different in nutritional elements. After all, the raw materials used to make them are very different.
Compared with rice, steamed buns have very few nutrients, only a small amount of vitamin E. However, rice has a lot of nutrients, such as vitamin e, vitamin b1, vitamin b2, etc. are very high.
3. Calorie difference
The caloric difference between rice and steamed buns is an issue that we attach great importance to, especially for those who like to lose weight. They feel that eating more will add calories to their body.
Compared with rice, steamed buns have higher calories, but not much higher. About 100 grams of steamed buns contain 1.1 grams of fat.
Rice has less calories, about 0.8 grams of calories in 100 grams of rice.
I believe that through the introduction of rice and steamed buns, we all have a certain understanding of them. Especially for people who are losing weight, they should also know which staple food to eat during the weight loss period.
In fact, steamed buns, as a staple food in the north, are still very controversial in our hearts. Especially about steamed buns, there are some remarks that can always make people panic.
Some people once said that if steamed buns are stored in the refrigerator for more than three days, aflatoxin will be produced. Some of us are right about this view, and some are wrong. So let us take a look at this statement. Is it correct or not?
Can’t you eat frozen steamed buns? If stored for more than three days, aflatoxin will be produced
For northerners, storing steamed buns in the refrigerator is a very daily task, and we do it almost every day.
Because northerners like to eat steamed buns very much, because in their eyes, the steamed buns are soft and steaming, which makes people very appetizing. If you only eat steamed buns without eating vegetables, you can eat a lot of them.
But these steamed buns that can’t be finished in one meal will be stored in the refrigerator, so they pay special attention to whether aflatoxin will be produced when the steamed buns are stored in the refrigerator.
Once upon a time, a scientist conducted an experiment and placed steamed buns in two refrigerators. Ten steamed buns were placed in each refrigerator. One refrigerator was stored for three days and the other was stored for five days.
After the time was up, he took out the steamed buns from the two refrigerators and conducted research. He found that the steamed buns stored in the refrigerator for three days did not produce aflatoxin, and the steamed buns stored in the refrigerator for five days did not produce aflatoxin.
This experiment tells us that aflatoxin will not be produced when steamed buns are placed in the refrigerator. I believe we all know this, so if you freeze steamed buns, you can continue to eat them.
How scary is aflatoxin?
I believe we have all heard of the word aflatoxin, but we don’t know much about aflatoxin. Today we are invited to learn about aflatoxin together.
In our daily life, we have been preaching how terrible aflatoxin is and how harmful it is to the human body? However, if people have not been exposed to aflatoxin in real life, they will listen to it as a joke and will not remember its harm.
Someone once did an experiment, putting 100 rabbits in a cage and adding one milligram of aflatoxin to the food they consumed.
When these 100 rabbits ingested this milligram of aflatoxin into their stomachs, all 100 rabbits died soon after. This is enough to illustrate how harmful aflatoxin is?
According to relevant surveys, it was found that about 20 milligrams of aflatoxin can be fatal. Therefore, we should pay more attention to aflatoxin in our daily lives.
How to prevent aflatoxin?
1. Pay attention to the storage period
We all know that most of the food we eat in daily life has a shelf life. If we don’t want to eat aflatoxin, we must eat the food within the shelf life.
Especially for some grain and oil foods, such as cooking oil, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, rice, noodles, etc. They are very prone to produce aflatoxin, and once they are not eaten for a long time, aflatoxin will be produced in these foods.
2. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits
We all know that eating more fresh vegetables and fruits is good for our bodies, but we don’t know what the advantages will be.
Eating more fresh vegetables and fruits can replenish the body's vitamins in time, improve the body's immunity, and make the body have certain resistance to external bacteria and viruses.
In addition, eating more fresh vegetables and fruits can also fight against aflatoxin, because the chlorophyll in these vegetables and fruits can reduce the toxicity of aflatoxin.
3. Add salt after the oil is hot.
If you are not sure about your cooking oil, don’t know how long it should be stored, and want to prevent aflatoxin.
We can put the oil in the oil pan, cook it until it is boiling, and then sprinkle the salt into the oil. This will allow the sodium ions in the salt to reduce the toxicity of aflatoxin.
Even if there is a little aflatoxin in the cooking oil we eat, it will not be that toxic.
has introduced us so many things about aflatoxin today. Are we all aware of it? In fact, the existence of aflatoxin should really attract our attention. After all, it does great damage to our bodies.
