Regarding soup-soaked rice, in China, some parents worry that their children will swallow the rice without chewing it, which is not good for the stomach. But Soup Rice is one of Korea's favorite foods. So, is it okay to eat soup with rice?
Although no one has specifically conducted experiments to study this issue, from the basic logic, these concerns are superfluous.
It is human instinct to chew food first and then swallow it. If the rice grains are hard, they should be chewed up, whether they go into the mouth with the soup or not. Just because it is mixed with soup, it is swallowed without chewing. Adults will not do this, nor will children. Unless the rice grains have been soaked into porridge, it does not matter if they are not chewed at this time.
Moreover, compared with other foods, rice grains are not hard food. Even if the rice grains are swallowed completely without chewing, the digestion time is at most a little longer, and even if they cannot be digested, they can be smoothly excreted through the digestive tract.
Some people worry that there is too much soup in the soup, which will dilute the gastric juice and cause the rice to be unable to digest. This worry is superfluous. Compared with soup and rice, pure liquid food such as milk has a larger amount of liquid and can also be digested well.
As for the worry that too much soup is drunk in the soup and rice, which leads to insufficient nutrition intake, it is also unnecessary. In an environment with sufficient and diverse food, even if the previous meal was not digested and absorbed well, and the energy was not enough, the next meal will be more hungry, and if you eat more, you will make up for it.
In the long evolutionary history of millions of years, the human gastrointestinal tract has accepted a variety of foods, thin, soft, hard, raw, cooked, and often eat various forms of food at the same time. It's not that it can't just stand rice mixed with soup.
Of course, compared to dry rice, soup-soaked rice is softer and has lower energy density. If you only eat soup-soaked rice and nothing else for a long time, it may indeed lead to nutritional imbalance. This is the same for any kind of food, but we do not need to What's extra to worry about with soup and rice.