The kidney bean, is an edible legume. The scientific name is kidney bean, commonly known as two-season or four-season beans. Young pods or seeds can be used as fresh vegetables, can also be processed for canning, pickling, freezing and drying. It is a plant belonging to the Rosaceae family Leguminosae.

Racemes of axillary, butterfly-shaped flowers. Corolla white, yellow, light purple or purple color. Self-pollinated, a few can be pollinated. Each inflorescence has several to more than 10 flowers, usually bearing 2 to 6 pods.

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Brue beans is a rare high potassium, high magnesium, low sodium food, per 100 grams of potassium 1520 milligrams, magnesium 193.5 milligrams, only 0.8 milligrams of sodium, a feature of the nutritional treatment of a great deal of use. Eat kidney beans on the skin, hair great benefits, can improve the skin's metabolism, promote the body detoxification, so that the skin is always youthful.

The saponins in kidney beans can reduce fat and absorption function, promote fat metabolism; dietary fiber can also speed up the food through the intestinal tract time, want to lose weight eat more kidney beans will achieve the purpose of light body. China's ancient medical records, kidney beans taste sweet and flat, warm, with warm gas, stomach, stomach, stop eruption, benefit the kidneys to replenish the vital energy and other functions. It is a kind of nourishing therapeutic good.

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