Now, we will talk about health benefits of mochi. Just like ramen, mochi become a healthy food because of the main ingredients. For making mochi, we need sticky rice flour, corn flour, sugar, rice flour, and salt. Those materials are good for our body and have a lot of health benefits. Do you want to know the health benefits of main ingredients of mochi? Let’s find out!
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Just like we already mentioned before, what makes mochi healthy is its main ingredients. Here are main ingredients of mochi and the health benefits of mochi Japan.
For us who live at Asia or continents that have rice as their main dish, we are familiar with sticky rice only with different name for each country. For those who doesn’t familiar, just imagine rice that sticky to each other. How do we consume it? We can just consume it or we can transform it into flour.
Sticky rice flour is one of main ingredients of making mochi. Usually, sticky rice used to make dishes with chewy texture. Because it contains starch, usually dishes that made from sticky rice flour will satiate us more so it can replace rice.
Does it have health benefits? Yes. Sticky rice contains a lot of good things for our body that can prevent us from suffering illness and disease, such as potassium, magnesium, selenium, manganese, etc. One of its health benefits is it can help us fight free radical.
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Corn flour is a flour that made from flour essence. Usually it used to baking so that the cake or the biscuit will have a perfect texture. Another used of corn flour is to make the sauce or the dressing thicker. Maybe not a lot of us know that actually corn flour has health benefits for our body. Let’s find out!
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1. Help Digestive System
Corn contains high level fiber that needed for our body. One of which responsibility is to help our digestive system. Fiber will help our digestive system so it can work properly.
2. Prevent Anemia
Anemia is a condition when our blood pressure drop because of a lot of factor, one of which is exhausted body. Vitamin B and folate acid that contains inside corn will help us to boost our blood pressure.
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3. Help Our Bones Stronger
Corn contains iron that has responsibility on help our organs to work properly. One of which is to makes our bones stronger. Bones’ strength will affect our activities. If our bones are weak, then we can’t work properly. But, if our bones strong, then we can do our daily activity.
Sugar is one of seasonings that we already common with. Usually we use it to drink tea or coffee. Although we already common with sugar and its kind, but not a lot of us know its health benefits for our body. Do you want know what is sugar’s health benefits for our body? Let’s find out! Also read: Sugarcane Juice Benefits
1. Boost Energy Instantly
We already know that sugar contains glucose that has responsibility on boost our energy. Not only energy for our movement tools, such as bones, muscles, and joints, but also energy for our brain. So, there’s a reason why people drink sweet coffee or tea in the morning.
2. Boost Blood Pressure
Beside boost our energy, sugar also has another responsibility, that is boost our blood pressure. So, if you are suffer low blood pressure, your body will be weaker. That is a really dangerous condition, especially if we are still outside our home. If suddenly you feel weak, consume something contains sugar as soon as possible.
3. Decrease Depression
There is statement said that chocolate and ice cream will decrease stress. There is a reason that support the statement because chocolate and ice cream contains sugar in it. Just like we already know, sugar is one of energy source that needed for our body. And if our energy already fueled, it will affect our mood too.
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4. Increase Brain’s Work
Just like we already know that sugar can boost our energy. Brain also need energy to work properly. Without glucose, our brain can’t work properly and we can’t do our activities. So, that’s why we need glucose for our healthiness.
Rice flour is a flour that made from rice. How to make rice flour? Pound the rice until it become a flour. Usually, we used rice flour to baking because there are some people that can’t take wheat flour. Rice flour contains materials that is as same as real rice, such as:
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Just like sugar, we already common with this seasoning. Usually, we will use it as seasoning in our food to make its taste more balance. In mochi making, we also need salt to make its taste a little bit savory. But, do you know what is health benefits of salt? Let’s find out!
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So, Japanese’s mochi is a traditional cake that is really good for our healthy because its ingredients contain lot of good materials for our body. Even we can add healthy food such us peanut and red bean as its filling. Peanut contains lot of good materials also such as calorie, fat, protein, carbohydrate, fiber, and saturated fat. As for red beans, it contains folat acid, calcium, carbohydrate, fiber, and high level protein.
Not only that. Traditional mochi use natural coloring to make it more pretty. And, as we know, natural coloring is the most healthier coloring that we can consume. Nowadays, maybe they use the chemical one. So, to make sure that mochi that you consume use natural coloring, you can visit traditional market at Japan or you can make it by yourself. But it’s pretty difficult, though.
But, you have to take a not that too much consuming sweet food will affect your health in a bad way. Although mochi contains lot of good materials for our body, but still consuming too much amount of it is not good for our health. In a small case, sweet foods will affect your teeth and you will be suffer from toothache. In a bigger case, it will increase the blood sugar level and increase the risk of affect from diabetes and another disease. So, stay healthy!
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