What kind of beans are rice beans called?
People often say that the scientific name of "rice bean" is red bean. In some places, it is also called eyebrow bean and Mi Dou. People often use it to cook rice and make soup, and it is an indispensable miscellaneous grain in people's daily life.
Rice beans can be divided into big white beans and small white beans. When the seedlings are tender, they can be eaten as vegetables and eaten raw. Some are white, and some are khaki. Large white beans are the size of peas, and small white beans are as big as mung beans, but they are longer than mung beans.
Red beans are rich in starch, so they are also called "rice beans". It has the functions of "taking a sip of liquid, facilitating urination, relieving bloating, eliminating swelling and stopping vomiting", and is called "Valley of the Heart" by Li Shizhen.
White eyebrow beans (picture)
What does rice bean look like?
Rice beans are generally cylindrical and slightly flat, with slightly flat or blunt ends and a purplish red or dark reddish brown surface.
Its surface is smooth, slightly shiny or dull, and hard, not easy to break. After it is cut open, the seed coat is thin and crisp, with an air emblem and a slightly sweet taste, and it tastes fishy when chewed.
The appearance of rice beans sprouting (picture)
What are the practices of red beans?
1, cooking
Dietotherapy effect Red beans can be eaten whole, generally used for cooking rice, porridge, red bean soup or popsicles, ice cream and the like. The dishes used are "red bean sparerib soup" and so on. Moreover, red beans can also be made into red bean sprouts and eaten with mung bean sprouts.
2, bean paste
Because of the high content of red bean starch, it is silty after steaming and has a unique aroma. Therefore, rice beans are often used to make bean paste for the stuffing of various cakes.
Nutrition and efficacy value of rice beans
Rice beans have too many benefits. They are people's golden beans. Not only eat tonic, but also keep fit. It even has a medical auxiliary effect on the human body, and I hope people will eat it often.
① detoxification
Modern research believes that red beans contain a lot of fiber for treating constipation and potassium for promoting diuresis. Both of these components can excrete cholesterol and salt, which are unnecessary to the body, so they are regarded as having detoxification effect.
② Boiling soup and drinking to treat inflammation.
Red bean boiled soup can be used to treat edema caused by kidney, heart, liver, malnutrition, inflammation and other reasons.
③ Efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine
Compendium of Materia Medica says that rice beans "treat difficult childbirth, discharge afterbirth, and promote lactation", "promote body fluid, facilitate urination, relieve bloating, eliminate swelling, treat vomiting, and treat diarrhea, hangover, cold and heat carbuncle, discharge pus and disperse blood."
Chinese medicine believes that red beans are mild, sweet and non-toxic. It has the functions of nourishing and strengthening the body, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, promoting diuresis and removing dampness, invigorating qi and expelling pus, clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting milk circulation and enriching blood.
Not only can it be used for traumatic injury, congestion and swelling, but also has disinfection function for all carbuncle, sore, scabies and erythema (erysipelas), which is especially beneficial to the dietotherapy of patients with various idiopathic edema.