Congee is a food that we usually use to nourish our bodies, and we can always see it when we don’t want to eat or when we are sick. Drinking porridge has always been known as a good stomach, but I have recently heard that drinking porridge does not nourish the stomach, is this true or not? It is true that people with gastritis can drink porridge to nourish their stomach! The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get into the small intestine without having to go through a lot of chewing and gastric peristalsis, decomposing into glucose and being absorbed and utilized by the body, which greatly reduces the burden on the stomach and intestines. The general gastritis patients gastric acid secretion is not enough, drinking porridge can promote gastric acid secretion, help food digestion, can also raise blood sugar, from this point of view, drinking porridge really “stomach”. Other gastrointestinal patients should not drink more porridge, there are four reasons: 1, can not chew slowly: stomach discomfort when eating to chew slowly, in addition to look good, or because this can make food and saliva mixed, so that the food to the stomach easier to digest. And when drinking porridge can not chew slowly, food can not be evenly mixed with digestive juices, but is not conducive to digestion. 2】Rare rice is watery: because of the watery rice, the mouth and gastrointestinal and other secreted digestive juices will be diluted, the food will not be digested in time, the movement of the stomach of people with poor gastrointestinal function will be even slower, which further aggravates the burden on the stomach. 3, thin rice is acidic: eat too well or eat too much, will stimulate the stomach to secrete a lot of gastric acid, patients suffering from reflux esophagitis increased significantly. For this part of the patient is not adapted to drink thin rice for the stomach, because thin rice is acidic, continue to drink thin rice, undoubtedly hurt on top of hurt. A lot of patients suffering from superficial gastritis because of the belief that thin rice stomach and long-term drinking porridge, and finally lead to reflux esophagitis, serious and even esophageal erosion. 4, drink porridge inhibit the secretion of amylase: human saliva in the precipitous amylase is an important substance that can promote digestion, people in eating is not chewing, the salivary glands in the mouth will not be a lot of saliva secretion, so there will not be enough amylase appear. Often drink porridge will inhibit the secretion of amylase, but also detrimental to the digestion of food. To sum up, porridge drinking is good for health, but people with poor stomach and intestines can not blindly drink porridge for stomach, otherwise the effect may be counterproductive.