Poisonous bean sprouts cannot be eaten.

How to identify poisonous bean sprouts

Smell the odor on the bean sprouts: Healthy bean sprouts smell refreshing, but bean sprouts with a "urea" smell are abnormal.

Look at the bean sprouts: Naturally cultivated bean sprouts are straight and slightly thin, with soft, crisp and white legs, while bean sprouts soaked in chemical fertilizers are thick, watery and gray in color.

Look at the roots of bean sprouts: Naturally cultivated bean sprouts have well-developed roots and no root or tip rot, while bean sprouts soaked in chemical fertilizers have short, few or no roots.

Look at the bean grains: Naturally cultivated bean sprouts have normal bean grains, while bean sprouts soaked in chemical fertilizers have blue bean grains.

Pinch the bean sprouts open to check the moisture content. Healthy bean sprouts have more moisture.

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Precautions for bean sprouts:

1. When growing soybean sprouts, be careful not to grow too long.

2. Do not add alkali when cooking soybean sprouts. Add a small amount of vinegar to prevent vitamin B from being reduced.

3. The cooking process should be rapid, or stir-fry quickly with oil, or simmer briefly in boiling water and then immediately remove and season.

4. When heating bean sprouts, you must pay attention to the time, eight is enough. Unripe bean sprouts often have a bit of astringency. Adding vinegar can remove the astringency and keep the bean sprouts crisp and tender.

5. Do not eat rootless bean sprouts, because rootless bean sprouts are sprayed with herbicides during their growth, and herbicides are generally carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic.

6. Soybean sprouts are cold in nature and should not be eaten by those with chronic diarrhea and weak spleen and stomach.

Soybean sprouts are suitable for everyone

The general population can eat them. Teenagers can eat more, and pregnant women eating more can have a certain effect on relieving pregnancy-induced hypertension and postpartum constipation; patients with heat accumulation in the stomach, hypertension, silicosis, obesity, constipation, hemorrhoids, cancer, and epilepsy should eat it.

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