Semolina is a wheat groats of a rough grinding. Diameter of particles grains usually is 0.25-0.75 mm. From it cook semolina porridge, trickled pastries, casseroles, cakes, dumplings, semolina pies and other dishes. Semolina is used less often at preparation of salads and soups.
Many in the childhood forced to eat a portion of semolina porridge for breakfast, therefore, from this leaves that semolina is useful. But at the same time there are contraindications to its application.
Advantage of semolina
Semolina contains the minimum quantity of cellulose, it quickly boils soft, is perfectly acquired by an organism. Liquid porridge is quite often included in diets which doctors appoint after stomach and intestines surgeries.
Semolina is the only grain which is digested in the lower department of intestines, in the same place it is soaked up in its walls. This grain is capable to clean an organism from slime, to remove fat. In semolina of rather vegetable protein and starch, but there are less vitamins, than in other grain. From vitamins of a decoy it is vitamin-rich E, B1 and 2, B6, from mineral substances - iron, calcium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium.
Harm of semolina
Semolina contains a lot of protein of gluten (in a different way - gluten). At many gluten provokes a hereditary disease a tseliakiya. The mucous membrane of intestines under the influence of this protein at the patient with a tseliakiya becomes thinner, therefore nutritive absorption is broken. At some people the allergy to gluten is observed.
At semolina there is a phytin, it connects salts of calcium and they don't manage to come to blood. When the level of salts of calcium becomes lower normal, parathyroid glands begin to take away calcium from bones.
So semolina porridge needs to be included in a diet, but in moderate quantities. If to feed children with porridge more than 2 times in a day, that is risk of developing of rickets or a spazmofiliya. Other porridges connect calcium much less, than semolina.