Mung beans can not be eaten with Chinese medicine.

Consumption of mung beans can not drink Chinese medicine, the "Compendium of Materia Medica", said: "mung beans smell sweet and cold, non-toxic, detoxification of all medicinal herbs, cows and horses, gold and stone poisons." Folk cooking mung bean soup is also often used as one of the first aid for drug poisoning. Therefore, mung beans and traditional Chinese medicine can not be taken together, the saying has been passed down.

In addition, mung beans should not be overcooked, so as not to make the organic acids and vitamins were destroyed, reducing the effectiveness of heat detoxification. However, the uncooked green beans fishy flavor strong, easy to eat nausea, vomiting.

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Precautions for consuming mung bean soup:

When cooking mung bean soup, using an iron pot is most inappropriate. Most of the active ingredients of mung beans are in the skin of mung beans, the flavonoids in the skin of mung beans and metal ions after the action, may form a darker color complex, so that the color of mung bean soup black, after eating will cause gastrointestinal discomfort and indigestion. So cooking green bean soup with casserole is ideal.

The green bean soup is good, but not too much to drink. The oligosaccharides contained in mung beans are easy to make people flatulence, and mung beans are not easy to digest food, overdrinking easy to damage the spleen and stomach, and female friends overdrinking mung bean soup, it will also be easy to cause bloating, menstrual cramps and other problems.

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