Lentils have many aliases, also known as lentils, lentils, lentils along the hedge, moth-eye beans, cool diffraction beans, goat's eye beans, puffy beans, tea beans, beans, small knife beans, tree beans, vine beans, for the legume family of annual twining herbs.

Lentils according to the color of the flowers are divided into red flowers and white flowers of two types, the pods of the color of green and white, light green, pink and purple red and other colors; the main varieties of cultivation are purple flowers, small white flat, pig's blood flat, red ribbed flat, white flowers, white flat and large knife guillotine flat and other varieties. Cultivation is widespread throughout the country.

The seeds of lentils contain vitamin B1, vitamin C, carotene, protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, calcium phytate magnesium, pantothenic acid, zinc and other nutrients, as well as trypsin inhibitor, amylase inhibitor, hemoglobin A, B, as well as soy stanols, phospholipids, sucrose, cotton sugar, fructose, glucose, galactose, fructose, starch, cyanogenic glucoside, tyrosinase. etc. The function of beans and clothes of lentil is to neutralize dampness, eliminate summer heat and detoxification, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and stop diarrhea and dysentery; the flowers of lentil can clear summer heat and dampness, and cure dysentery and pus and blood. Lentils can cure summer dampness vomiting and diarrhea, spleen deficiency and vomiting, less food for a long time leakage, water stopping thirst, red and white belt, children's chancre.

Eating lentils precautions:

1, lentils and mushrooms can not eat

Lentils and mushrooms can not be eaten together with the two ingredients, they are the existence of a match, lentils in the proteins and fats in the encounter with mushrooms in the carotene and other trace components will have an adverse reaction to generate some toxic substances, people eat lentils and mushrooms at the same time will be When people consume lentils and mushrooms at the same time, food poisoning will occur.

2, lentils and clams can not be eaten together

Lentils and clams can not be eaten together, lentils are a mild nature of the ingredients, it contains a lot of dietary fiber, can accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, to promote defecation, while clams are a cold ingredients, can also promote the discharge of stool, they are consumed together, the intestines will be subjected to excessive stimulation, which will trigger diarrhea or abdominal pain.

3, lentils can not eat with cabbage

lentils this ingredient can not eat with cabbage, because cabbage inside a large amount of oxalic acid, and lentils in a large amount of calcium, they meet after a large number of human beings can not be digested and absorbed and calcium oxalate, calcium oxalate in the human body to accumulate, after a long time will form stones.