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This bean is called mung bean because its color is green. In the original books, it was called "Zi".

Understand daily life

Mung beans can be planted everywhere and planted in March and April every year. When growing up, the seedlings are only about 1 ft high, with small leaves and small fluff on the top, which will not bloom until autumn, and the flowers are also very small. The beans of mung beans are very similar to those of red beans. Because of the long growth period of mung beans, early or late planting will have a certain harvest. But harvesting early is called picking, which means you can get it many times; And the late harvest is called pulling, which means pulling at one time.

Those with full grains and bright colors are called official green, while those with small grains and deep colors are called oil green, which are more nutritious than official green.

There are many ways for northerners to eat mung beans, such as frying mung beans, making mung bean porridge and rice, making wine with mung beans, making mung beans into vermicelli, grinding mung beans into flour and making mung bean cakes. The best thing is that mung beans can be soaked in water to make them grow tender white buds-mung bean sprouts, which are good vegetables.

Adding some mung beans to the feed of cattle and horses can make them fat and strong. Mung beans are really a good food.

Traditional Chinese medicine interpretation

(1) odor: sweet, cold and nontoxic.

(2) Indications: It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and stopping vomiting. It can promote urination, replenish vitality, harmonize the five internal organs of the human body and calm the spirit. It can also moisturize the skin and have a cosmetic effect.

scientific research

(1) nutrients

Vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, protein, etc.

(2) Health effects

Mung bean is a traditional food, which is rich in protein, which can stimulate nerves and increase appetite. The effective components of mung bean have the effects of lowering blood fat and cholesterol, and can prevent and treat coronary heart disease and angina pectoris.

The latest research shows that mung beans have detoxification and antiallergic effects, and also have the effect of preventing and treating cancer. Long-term consumption of mung beans by the elderly, children and the weak can nourish the body and enhance physical strength. It is precisely because of these medicinal values that mung beans are also called green "elixirs".

Star recommendation

Jackie Chan, a famous movie star, attended the Phoenix Satellite TV 15 anniversary celebration party on March 3 1. He and Chen Luyu, the host, recalled the interview that year, and laughed that they were in good health because they drank mung bean soup.

In an interview with anhui tv's Extraordinary quiet distance, Jackie Chan said that he had a physical examination in Singapore before filming in Australia. Experts asked him what he had been eating for a long time. He said red bean paste and green bean paste, and experts said that he should stick to it.

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