Broad bean pinyin: can, dou.

Basic Explanation: Annual herb with hollow stems, white flowers with purple spots, podded fruit and edible seeds. It is also known as the "bean".

Fava beans (scientific name: Vicia faba? L.), also known as southern beans, beans, etc., belongs to the legume family, wild peas, annual or perennial herbs. Fava bean is the world's third most important winter edible bean crop. Fava beans have a high nutritional value, with a protein content of 25%-35%. Fava beans are also rich in sugar, minerals, vitamins, calcium and iron. In addition, as a nitrogen-fixing crop, fava beans can convert molecular nitrogen in nature into nitrogen compounds, increasing soil nitrogen content.

According to the Song Dynasty's Taiping Yuban, fava beans were introduced to the Central Plains by Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty from the Western Regions? . Fava beans are widely planted in China, and have been an important food resource since ancient times, as well as an important export resource. Fava beans belong to the small grains, has a very important value in life. It can be used as traditional food, and is also a modern green food and nutritional health food. It is a grain crop and animal feed rich in nutrition and protein. Broad bean chromosome set is diploid (n=6).

Fava Bean Effects and Roles:

Fava bean is the seed of a plant, is a grain, vegetable, feed, and has the role of green manure and fertilizer. The properties of broad beans are sweet and flat, attributed to the spleen, liver, gallbladder and kidney meridians. Its efficacy and role as:

1, broad beans are rich in protein, vitamin C, dietary fiber, has the effect of delaying atherosclerosis, can reduce cholesterol, promote intestinal peristalsis, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and the elderly often eat a better preventive effect;

2, broad beans are rich in calcium, zinc, manganese and other trace elements, which has the effect of enhancing the memory is regulated. Brain and nervous tissue is an important component, but also conducive to bone calcium absorption and calcification, can promote the growth and development of human bone, in addition to one of the anti-cancer food, for the prevention of intestinal cancer has a certain role;

3, fava beans are good for health, can facilitate the dampness and swelling, suitable for the spleen, swollen, spleen deficiency diarrhea of the use of the person;

4, fava beans contraindications for the crowd: the genetically defective people, that is, patients with fava beans can not eat The person that the fava bean patient can not eat, to avoid eating, for the fava bean allergy to avoid eating, the middle jiao deficiency cold people can not eat, or suffering from fava bean disease children absolutely must avoid serving.