1, the benefits of mung beans (the main value):

(1) detoxification: mung beans have a strong detoxification effect, can remove a variety of poisons inside and outside of the body, to prevent food poisoning and drug poisoning. This is related to the fact that mung beans are rich in protein, dietary fiber, selenium, polyphenols and other detoxification components. Mung bean protein can protect the gastrointestinal mucosa, preventing the absorption of toxic substances in the gastrointestinal tract.

(2) improve intestinal flora and laxative: mung beans are rich in dietary fiber and functional oligosaccharide. The former can not only increase the volume of feces and promote defecation, but can also be partially degraded by intestinal microorganisms into low-grade fatty acids, thereby reducing intestinal pH, favoring the growth of acidic probiotics and inhibiting the growth of alkaline harmful bacteria.

Mung bean functional oligosaccharides can be used as nutrients for probiotics in the intestinal tract, promoting the growth and reproduction of bifidobacteria and other probiotics in the intestinal tract, so that their metabolism produces a large amount of acid and antimicrobials, thus inhibiting the growth of harmful bacteria and improving the intestinal flora. In addition, the metabolites of bifidobacteria can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, increase intestinal wetness and maintain a certain osmotic pressure, thus preventing constipation.

(3) lowering blood fat: mung beans are rich in soybean steroids. It has a similar structure with cholesterol, so it can compete with cholesterol esterase, so that cholesterol can not be esterified and reduce the intestinal absorption. In addition, soybean sterol can also reduce serum cholesterol levels by promoting cholesterol isomerization or preventing cholesterol biosynthesis in the liver and other pathways.

(4) Antioxidant: Mung bean skin is rich in vitamin E, carotene, flavonoids and polyphenols and other antioxidant components, so it has a strong antioxidant effect.

(5) anti-tumor: mung beans are rich in dietary fiber, functional oligosaccharide, flavonoids and polyphenols and other components, which can play an anti-tumor effect through a variety of ways. Mung bean oligosaccharide is the human intestinal bifidobacteria proliferation factor, regular consumption can improve intestinal flora, reduce the absorption and production of carcinogens, thereby preventing certain cancers.

(6) Antibacterial: mung beans contain polyphenols, flavonoids and alkaloids antibacterial components, these components can be both direct antibacterial, but also through the enhancement of the body's immune system to produce indirect antibacterial effect. Mung beans contain alkaloids and steroids and other components can enhance the number of macrophages and phagocytosis, improve the body's immunity.

(7) Improve immunity: mung beans contain polyphenols, flavonoids, coumarins, alkaloids, steroids, saponins and other active ingredients through a variety of ways to enhance immunity. Such as the protection of immune cells, increase the number of phagocytes or phagocytosis, promote the synthesis of antibodies and immune factors.

2, mung beans with a bad thing that is not appropriate, mung beans cold, easy to damage the stomach gas, chronic gastritis, chronic enteritis and spleen and stomach cold people should not eat more.

(1) belonging to the cold body, such as cold limbs, weakness, waist and legs cold pain, diarrhea and dilution, eat mung beans will aggravate the symptoms, and even cause other diseases.

(2) The elderly, children and the weak. Because the protein content of mung beans is more than chicken, large molecules of protein need to be converted into small molecules of peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes in order to be absorbed by the body. These people's gastrointestinal digestion is poor, it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short period of time, easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion.

(3) People who are taking all kinds of drugs. Because mung beans have a detoxification effect, therefore, patients taking drugs, whether Chinese medicine or Western medicine, if it contains organic phosphorus, calcium, potassium and other components, mung beans will be combined with these components into a precipitate, which breaks down the efficacy of the medicine, affecting the treatment.

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You can drink green bean soup in winter, too

The green bean soup that clears the heat and relieves the summer heat is not only a patented drink for the summer, but you can drink some in the winter as well, especially if you live in the northern part of the country. Residents, the dry climate and the indoor environment of the hot and dry easily caused by the rise of fire, green bean soup can play a very good fire to dry effect.

The Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold, can be thick stomach and intestines, moist skin, and the five organs, nourishing the spleen and stomach. Drinking mung bean soup in winter, the main use of it to remove fire, liver and detoxification effect.

As soon as it gets cold, people love to eat beef and lamb, spicy food and shabu-shabu, but it's easy to get on fire after eating too much of it, so eating shabu-shabu with a bowl of mung bean soup can help to remove the grease and lower the fire.

In addition, the dry climate in the north, where homes are heated, makes it easy for people to get upset and irritated, and for their livers to rise, which is where mung bean soup can help.

Baidu encyclopedia - mung bean

People's Daily News - mung bean cold three people should not drink

People's Daily News - mung bean soup can also be drunk in winter. Mung bean soup can also be drunk in winter to remove fire and nourish the liver, especially suitable for pairing with shabu-shabu