Which brand of nutritional rice noodles for the elderly is the best?

In fact, there is no absolute "best" nutritious rice noodle for the elderly. After all, every elderly person has different taste preferences and physical foundations, and the popular ones have their own audiences. I picked them three or four times for the elderly in my family before I figured out that the ones that suit their appetites are really good.

A few months ago, I was choosing rice noodles for my 78-year-old grandmother, who has type 2 diabetes. I first heard from my colleagues that Heinz’s elderly rice noodles were fragrant, so I immediately stocked up on two cans. When I opened them, I discovered that they had added sucrose. They were as sweet as the freshly ground rice milk I drank when I was a kid. Grandma Zhang, who has no blood sugar problems downstairs, followed me and bought a can. She loved it so much that she made a bowl with a bun every morning and said it was more comfortable than drinking soy milk. However, my grandma frowned after taking a sip and said it was so sweet that she didn't even touch the second spoonful after it cooled down.

Later, I specially looked for the sucrose-free version and added Nestlé Yiyang's high-calcium elderly rice noodles. This one is light in taste, with a very light milk aroma. It is very fine when washed with warm water of about 40 degrees, and there is no lump of powder residue at all. My grandma drank it for half a month and she didn't get tired of it. Everyone she met said that what I bought was what she liked. But Grandpa Li, who lives opposite my house, shook his head after tasting it once and said it tasted like rice soup. He often bought Jiangzhong Hougu's salty hericium rice noodles, which had a bit of fungus flavor. He made them thicker in the morning and ate them with pickles. He said it was less stomach-churning than porridge, and it could cure his old stomach problems.

There are also many elderly people who recognize the freshly ground brown rice flour in their hometown and think it is healthier without additives. My aunt brought two kilograms of freshly ground rice flour from her hometown to my grandma. As a result, the flour ground in the workshop was not fine enough and mixed with some fine bran. When grandma drank it, it got stuck in her throat and she coughed for a long time to recover. After that, she never wanted to touch this kind of rice flour that had not been refined. After all, she is old and has a sensitive esophagus, and coarse residue is really easy to cause trouble.

To be honest, the basic formulas of the compliant elderly rice noodles on the market are quite mature and contain the necessary nutrients such as calcium, iron, and dietary fiber. If you really want to choose, don’t just look at the online recommendations. Buy a small package and try it two or three times to find out whether the elderly like sweet or salty foods, and whether they have blood sugar or gastrointestinal taboos.