One, promote digestion, soybeans are rich in dietary fiber, can promote intestinal peristalsis, to prevent constipation, accelerate the excretion of body wastes.
Second, the efficacy of blood fat and blood sugar, soybeans contain saponin is a significant role in reducing blood fat.
Three, can regulate cholesterol, soy contains fat unsaturated fatty acids are easily absorbed by the body, so soy fat can prevent the absorption of cholesterol.
Four, have the effect of enhancing immunity, soybean is rich in protein, can improve the human immunity, and soybean can also prevent cancer.
Soybean is commonly known as soybean. For dicotyledonous plants, legume, soybean genus of annual herbs, 30-90 cm high. Stem stout, erect, densely brown hirsute.
Leaves usually 3-foliolate; stipules veined, yellow pilose; petiole 2-20 cm long; leaflets broadly ovate, papery; racemes short few-flowered, long many-flowered; racemes usually with 5-8 sessile, tightly crowded flowers; bracts lanceolate, strigose; bracteoles lanceolate, setose; calyx lanceolate, flowers purple, lavender, or white, petaloid at the base, winged castanets The flowers are purple, lilac or white, basally petiolate, the winged petals castoriform.
Pods plump, slightly curved, pendulous, yellowish green, densely covered with tawny long hairs; 2-5 seeds, ellipsoid, subglobose, with smooth seed coat, diversified in light green, yellow, brown and black. Flowering period June-July, fruiting period July-September.
Native to China, it is cultivated throughout China and widely cultivated throughout the world. Soybean is one of China's important food crops, has been five thousand years of cultivation history, the ancient name of beans, Northeast China is the main producing areas, is a kind of its seeds are rich in plant protein crops. Soybeans are most commonly used to make a variety of soybean products, extract soybean oil, brew soy sauce and extract protein.
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Medicinal Values
In addition to the nutritional value of soybeans. The role in medicine and health is also more important. In many medical books have records, for example, in the "Food Therapy Materia Medica" mentioned soybean can benefit the qi, moisturizing, in the "daily use of Materia Medica" in the soybean can reduce swelling and detoxification, in the "Materia Medica Hui Yan" in the record with soybean juice with the spleen to remove dryness, eliminate the role of dysentery. These are enough to prove the medical value of soybean.
The lecithin in soybean can remove the cholesterol attached to the wall of the blood vessel, preventing hardening of the blood vessel, thus preventing cardiovascular disease and protecting the heart. It also has the effect of preventing the accumulation of excessive fat in the liver and can effectively prevent fatty liver caused by obesity.
Lecithin can promote the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, strengthen the body's organs, reduce cholesterol, improve lipid metabolism, prevention and treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis and other diseases. Long-term supplementation of lecithin can also prevent memory loss and dementia.
The soy isoflavones in soybeans are very valuable active substances, which have a huge role in the secretion of human hormones and protein synthesis. It can improve many cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and breast cancer, prostate cancer and other diseases, is a rare natural anti-cancer agent.
In addition, soybean also contains more phytosterols, it has a very good anti-inflammatory effect, can inhibit the absorption of human cholesterol, the treatment of ulcers, cervical cancer has obvious effect; it can also improve human cell activity, promote wound healing, muscle growth.
The soybean contains a large amount of protein, regular consumption can improve human immunity, relieve human fatigue, increase the excitation and inhibition of the cerebral cortex, improve learning and work efficiency, and help to alleviate frustration, depression.
The soybean saponin in soybean can remove free radicals in the human body, with the role of antioxidant, but also can inhibit the growth of tumor cells in the human body, and enhance the body's immune function.
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