Yes, they are not poisonous. However, it is recommended that they be cooked and eaten.

The mung bean's ability to clear heat is in the skin, and its ability to detoxify the body is in the flesh. Mung bean soup is the family's regular summer drink, summer appetizers, young and old. Traditional mung bean products include mung bean cake, mung bean wine, mung bean cake, mung bean paste, mung bean vermicelli and so on.

Each 100 grams of mung beans contain 23.8 grams of protein, 58.8 grams of carbohydrates, 0.5 grams of fat, 80 milligrams of calcium, 360 milligrams of phosphorus, 6.8 milligrams of iron. Also contains carotene, vitamin B1:, vitamin B2:, vitamin E and niacin and a variety of mineral elements.

The protein contained in mung beans is mainly globulin, and contains methionine, tryptophan, tyrosine and other amino acids; in the phospholipids contained in phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylserine and other components.

Expanded information:

A, mung bean efficacy

Mung bean pharmacological effects of blood lipids, cholesterol, anti-allergy, anti-bacterial, anti-tumor, enhance appetite, liver and kidney. Mung bean powder has significant lipid-lowering effect, mung bean contains a globulin and polysaccharide, can promote the animal body cholesterol in the liver decomposition into bile acid, accelerate the bile salt secretion in the bile and reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine.

The active ingredients of mung beans have anti-allergic effects and can assist in the treatment of hives and other allergic reactions. Mung beans have an inhibitory effect on staphylococcus. Mung beans contain protein, phospholipids are excitatory nerve, appetite function. Mung beans are rich in trypsin inhibitors, can protect the liver, reduce protein decomposition, reduce azotemia, and therefore protect the kidneys.

Two, drink mung bean soup six precautions

1, do not use the iron pot to cook mung bean soup

Cooking mung bean soup, the most inappropriate with the iron pot. Most of the active ingredients of mung beans are in the mung bean skin, mung bean skin flavonoids and metal ions after the role of the formation of darker complexes, so that the color of the mung bean soup black, after eating will cause gastrointestinal discomfort and indigestion. So cooking green bean soup with casserole is ideal.

2, don't add alkali when cooking mung bean soup

Mung bean is rich in vitamin B, it is an important part of the mung bean summer properties, can make up for the loss of nutrients when sweating. The alkali will seriously damage the vitamin B. At the same time, the flavonoid antioxidant component of the mung bean will also be added to the alkali loss, resulting in structural changes, the color to yellow.

3, mung bean soup can not drink every day

Mung bean soup is appropriate to drink is no problem, the general adult drink 2 to 3 times a week, each time a bowl can be. Young children should be specific according to the body, it is best to consult a physician, because the protein content of mung beans than chicken, large molecules of protein need to be converted into small molecules of peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes to be absorbed by the body.

The young children's digestive function is relatively poor, it is difficult to digest the mung bean protein in a short period of time, easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion. Generally speaking, children 2 to 3 years old began to eat congee, can be added to the appropriate amount of green beans. 6 years old, before you can drink the adult amount.

4, can not drink mung bean soup on an empty stomach

From the point of view of Chinese medicine, mung bean sex is more cold, drinking on an empty stomach is easy to cause harm to the spleen and stomach. Cold people would have had cold limbs and weakness, cold pain in the waist and legs, diarrhea and dilution of symptoms, and eat mung beans will aggravate the symptoms, and even cause such as diarrhea, stagnant blood caused by joint muscle pain, gastric cold and spleen and stomach weakness caused by chronic gastritis and other digestive disorders.

5, can not drink too much mung bean soup

Mung bean soup is good to drink, but can not drink too much. Mung bean contains oligosaccharide easy to make people bloating, and mung bean is not easy to digest the food, overdrinking easy to damage the spleen and stomach, and female friends overdrinking mung bean soup, it will also be easy to trigger bloating, menstrual cramps and other problems.

6, mung bean sometimes can not be eaten with Chinese medicine

Mung bean itself is a Chinese medicine, if you suffer from external heat, summer heat invasion and other hot diseases, when taking Chinese medicine and then properly take mung bean soup, there are complementary roles; but if there is a weak stomach and intestines, acidic fatigue, chills, cold legs, cold, diarrhea, and other symptoms of people taking Chinese medicine should be prohibited from eating mung bean.

Otherwise, not only will reduce the efficacy of the drug, but also aggravate the condition. So, whether you can eat mung beans when taking Chinese medicine can not be generalized, should be based on the condition of the cold and heat and the taste of the Chinese medicine.

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