1. Cooking mung bean soup without iron pot

When cooking mung bean soup, using iron pot is the most inappropriate. Most of the active ingredients of mung bean are in the skin of mung bean. After the flavonoids and metal ions in the skin of mung bean act, it may form a dark complex, which will make the color of mung bean soup black, which will cause gastrointestinal discomfort and indigestion after eating. Therefore, casserole is the most ideal for cooking mung bean soup.

2. Don't add alkali when cooking mung bean soup

Mung bean is rich in vitamin B, which is an important part of the summer-heat relieving characteristics of mung bean and can make up for the nutritional loss when sweating. And alkali can seriously destroy vitamin B. At the same time, the flavonoid antioxidant components in mung beans will also be lost due to the addition of alkali, resulting in structural changes and yellow color. Therefore, it is best not to add alkali to the mung bean soup. If you want to make the soup sticky, consider adding a small amount of oatmeal or glutinous rice to "thicken".

3. You can't drink mung bean soup every day.

It's okay to drink mung bean soup properly. Generally, adults can drink it two or three times a week, one bowl at a time. Young children should be specific according to their physique, so it is best to consult a doctor first, because the content of protein in mung beans is more than that in chicken, and the macromolecular protein needs to be converted into small peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes before it can be absorbed by the human body. Children's gastrointestinal digestive function is relatively poor, it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short time, and it is easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion. Generally speaking, when children start eating porridge at the age of 2 to 3, they can add some mung beans in moderation. After the age of 6, you can drink adult quantity.

4. Don't drink mung bean soup on an empty stomach

From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, mung bean is cold, and drinking it on an empty stomach is easy to harm the spleen and stomach. People with cold constitution have symptoms such as cold limbs, cold pain in waist and legs, diarrhea and loose stools, but eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms and even cause digestive system diseases such as diarrhea, joint muscle pain caused by stagnation of qi and blood, stomach cold and chronic gastritis caused by weakness of spleen and stomach.

5. Don't drink too much mung bean soup

Although mung bean soup is delicious, you can't drink too much. The oligosaccharides contained in mung beans are easy to make people flatulence, and mung beans are indigestible foods, and excessive drinking can easily damage the spleen and stomach, while excessive drinking of mung bean soup by female friends can easily lead to abdominal distension, dysmenorrhea and other problems.

6. Mung beans can't be eaten with Chinese medicine sometimes

People often say, "You can't eat mung beans when you eat Chinese medicine, so as to avoid the antidote." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Mung bean smells sweet and cold, and it is nontoxic ... to cure all the poisons of herbs, horses, cattle and stones." Folk boiled mung bean soup is also often used as one of the first aid measures for drug poisoning. Mung bean is a good drink for clearing away heat and toxic materials, and many families like to cook some mung bean soup in summer. There is a folk saying that "you can't eat mung beans when you eat Chinese medicine, so as not to have an antidote". Some people also "generalize" this view, thinking that western medicine is also medicine, and you can't eat mung beans or drink mung bean soup when taking western medicine, otherwise it will also affect the efficacy.