Mung bean soup should not be drunk every day. It is no problem to drink mung bean soup properly. Adults can drink one bowl two or three times a week. Children need to consult a doctor first, because the protein content of mung beans is more than that of chicken, and the macromolecular protein needs to be converted into small peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes before it can be absorbed by the human body.

Children's gastrointestinal digestive function is poor, it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short time, and it is easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion. Children start eating porridge at the age of 2 to 3, and you can add some mung beans in moderation. You can drink adult quantity after 6 years old.

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Can't drink mung bean soup on an empty stomach. Mung beans are cold, and drinking on an empty stomach is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. People with cold constitution will have cold limbs, cold pain in waist and legs, diarrhea, loose stool and other symptoms, but eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms, and even cause diarrhea, joint muscle pain caused by stagnation of qi and blood, stomach cold caused by weakness of spleen and stomach, chronic gastritis and other digestive system diseases.

Don't drink too much mung bean soup. Although mung bean soup is delicious, you should not drink too much. The oligosaccharides contained in mung beans are easy to make people flatulence, and mung beans are indigestible food, and excessive drinking can easily damage the spleen and stomach, while excessive drinking of mung bean soup by female friends can easily lead to abdominal distension and dysmenorrhea.

Mung beans can't be eaten with Chinese medicine sometimes. Mung bean itself is a kind of Chinese medicine. If you suffer from exogenous wind-heat, summer heat and other fever, taking mung bean soup properly when taking Chinese medicine will play a complementary role.

However, people with gastrointestinal weakness, limb weakness, chills, cold pain in waist and legs, diarrhea and other symptoms should avoid eating mung beans when taking traditional Chinese medicine, otherwise it will not only reduce the curative effect of the medicine, but also aggravate the condition. Therefore, whether you can eat mung beans when you eat Chinese medicine can't be generalized. It should be judged according to your condition of cold and heat deficiency and the taste of Chinese medicine you eat.

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