Mung bean soup is a sweet soup that is often drunk in summer. It tastes sweet and refreshing, and has many functions such as promoting fluid production to quench thirst, clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing fire and relieving summer heat. It is ok to put sugar or rock sugar when cooking mung bean soup, mainly for seasoning, but rock sugar has better effects of moistening lung and relieving cough, clearing away heat and removing fire, and its sweetness and calories are lower than sugar, so it is better to put rock sugar in mung bean soup.

2 Does mung bean soup add rock sugar to the fire? It has a certain effect on fire.

Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are sweet in taste and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving fever and vexation, diuresis and detumescence. The rock sugar is sweet, flat, enters the spleen and stomach, and has the functions of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, eliminating phlegm and removing fire. Both of them have certain effects of clearing away heat and reducing fire, and can relieve sore throat, gingival swelling and pain, oral ulcer, dry throat and dry mouth caused by excessive internal heat.

How much rock sugar to put in mung bean soup depends on personal taste.

There is no strict requirement on how much rock sugar to put in mung bean soup. You can put it according to your taste. If you like sweets, you can put more sugar, and if you don't like sweets, you can put less sugar. You can refer to the ratio of 2-3 rock sugar in a bowl of mung bean soup. The sweetness is moderate, not too light or too sweet.

4 when cooking mung bean soup, put sugar and put it after cooking.

Mung bean soup may not be able to put rock sugar. It is generally suggested that after the mung bean soup is completely cooked, add rock sugar to taste according to your own taste. If sugar is added before the mung bean soup is cooked, it will reduce the absorption of water by mung beans, slow down the cooking speed of mung beans, make it difficult to cook mung beans, and the cooked soup will stick together and taste bad.