The meaning of soybean includes soybean and hairy bean. The scientific name is soybean commonly known as hairy beans. Soybean ancient name for beans. Soybean is a general term for soybeans of various colors such as yellow \ green \ black \ brown \ bicolor. About 5000 years of cultivation history, originated in China. About 90% of China's cultivation is yellow soybeans. Soybean is fresh soybean with pods, and after drying, it is also called soybean. The size of the grain is divided into six kinds: very large grain: 100 grains weighing more than 30 grams; very large grain: 100 grains weighing 24.1-30 grams; large grain: 100 grains weighing 18.1-24 grams; medium grain: 100 grains weighing 12.1-18 grams; small grain: 100 grains weighing 6.1-12 grams; very small grain: 100 grains weighing less than 6 grams.
Nutritional value:
1. The fat content of beans is higher than other kinds of vegetables, but most of them are mainly unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which are essential for human body, and they can improve the metabolism of fats and reduce the triglyceride and cholesterol content of the human body.
2. The lecithin in the soybean is one of the indispensable nutrients for the development of the brain, which can improve the brain's memory and intelligence level.
3. Soy beans are rich in dietary fiber, which can improve constipation and lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
4. Soy beans are high in potassium, which can help compensate for the loss of potassium due to excessive sweating in summer, thus relieving fatigue and loss of appetite caused by potassium loss.
5. Soybean is easy to absorb iron and can be used as one of the iron supplement foods for children. Soybean contains trace functional components of flavonoids, especially soy isoflavones, known as natural phytoestrogens, which have estrogenic effects in the body and can improve women's menopausal discomforts and prevent osteoporosis.
6. Soybeans contain compounds that can remove fat from the walls of blood vessels, which play a role in lowering blood lipids and reducing blood cholesterol.
7. Soybeans have the effect of nourishing the skin, effectively improving the loss of appetite and general fatigue. Soybean nutrition is rich and balanced, contains beneficial active ingredients, regular consumption, women to maintain a slim body role is significant; on obesity, high blood fat, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and other diseases have preventive and adjuvant therapeutic effects.
8. Fresh soybeans, in the medical, there are many uses, and mature soybeans, not similar.
9. The hairy bean taste sweet, sex flat, into the spleen, large intestine meridian; with the spleen, wide, moist and dry water, clearing heat and detoxification, beneficial effects; the main treatment of noma diarrhea, abdominal distension and thinness, pregnancy poisoning, carbuncle poison, traumatic hemorrhage.