Postpartum

Red Date Millet Porridge

Name: Red Date Millet Porridge
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 8 min
Yield: 1 servings

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MINS

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SERVINGS

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Easy

LEVEL

#staple

#confinement

#blood_building

#vegetarian

A homely blood-nourishing porridge (also among the 16 lactation soups) — millet and red dates simmered creamy; warming, a common confinement breakfast.

MumEat recipe

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Nutritional Highlights

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19%

DAILY RDI

Iron

5.2mg

🌿

18%

DAILY RDI

Folate

108µg

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17%

DAILY RDI

Zinc

1.8mg

+ 3 more nutrients

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Why This Recipe?

🌸 Traditional Wisdom

Red date millet porridge is the most homely blood-and-stomach porridge in confinement.

🔬 Modern Science

Millet soothes and digests easily, dates add iron and energy — pair with vitamin-C foods to improve iron uptake.

⚠️Moderate evidence

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Instructions

3 steps

Rinse millet; pit red dates.

Simmer with water 30 min until creamy.

Add a few goji if desired.

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Full Nutrition Breakdown

🍊Vitamin C

10%(8.6mg)

🌿Folate

18%(108µg)

⚡Zinc

17%(1.8mg)

Protein

13%(9.4g)

Calcium

5%(52.8mg)

Iron

19%(5.2mg)

* % based on pregnancy daily reference intake (RDI)

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References

[1] 中国营养学会.《中国哺乳期妇女膳食指南2022》.

哺乳期需增加铁摄入，全谷与红枣是植物铁来源。

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