Many people like to add some nutritious food when cooking porridge, so that the body can absorb more nutrients and improve the body more obviously, but some foods can't be eaten together. So can mung beans and red dates be cooked together? What are the taboos for cooking red dates and mung beans together? Let's have a look.

Mung beans and red dates can be cooked together. Mung beans belong to cold food, while red dates belong to warm food. Cooking these two substances together can combine their characteristics. Mung bean has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relaxing bowels, preventing heatstroke and relieving summer heat. Drinking a bowl of mung bean and red date porridge in summer can effectively alleviate the hot and dry situation. Jujube can strengthen the spleen, strengthen the stomach, nourish blood and bring oxygen, so drinking mung bean and jujube properly can promote intestinal peristalsis and help the intestine defecate better. At the same time, red dates can also supplement iron in the body, promote the production of hemoglobin and prevent anemia, which is very beneficial to women's health.

But people who are taking drugs are not suitable for drinking mung beans and red dates, because mung beans contain sediments combined with organic acids and heavy metals. These ingredients are called detoxification ingredients, which will decompose the efficacy during eating and directly affect the quality of drugs on the body. There are also weak people who are not suitable for drinking mung bean and red jujube porridge. Because mung beans are cold, it is easy to have diarrhea after drinking.

Cooking mung beans and red dates together has many benefits to the body, and there are also many taboos, so everyone should judge whether they can eat before eating, so as not to burden the body.