Bean sprouts include soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, small bean sprouts, etc., also known as Ruyi vegetable. Eating bean sprouts began in the Song Dynasty, bean sprouts and bamboo shoots, mushrooms and listed as vegetarian fresh flavor of the three hegemony. Bean sprouts are rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, chlorophyll and other nutrients, with the efficacy of skin care and tumor prevention.

Bean sprouts is the soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, black bean sprouts and small bean sprouts of the general term, is a traditional Chinese dish. Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" pointed out that: only the white beauty of this bean sprouts is unique, eaten after the heart to nourish the body. The ancients praised it is "ice muscle jade", "gold buds inch long", "white dragon's beard", bean sprouts look like a handful of Ruyi, so people also called it Ruyi dishes.

Bean sprouts are a common food in winter. Although now the vegetable greenhouse technology is very developed, but in the cold winter, the types of vegetables are still reduced, but the bean sprouts is a seasonal flavor, not only rich in nutrients, and can even treat some common diseases.

The protein content of soybeans is high, but because of its presence of trypsin inhibitors, its nutritional value is limited, so people advocate the consumption of soy products. Soybeans in the sprouting process, most of these substances are degraded and destroyed. The protein utilization of soybean sprouts is about 10% higher than that of soybeans. In addition, soybean contains can not be absorbed by the body, and easy to cause bloating cotton sugar and other substances, in the process of germination in the sharp decline and even all disappeared, which avoids the phenomenon of eating soybean bloating occurs. Soybeans in the germination process, due to the role of enzymes, more calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and other mineral elements are released, which in turn increases the utilization rate of soybean minerals in the human body. Aspartame urethane increases dramatically after soybean germination, so people eating bean sprouts can reduce lactic acid buildup in the body and eliminate fatigue. In recent years, bean sprouts contain an interferon-generating agent that induces interferon, increasing the body's antibiotics and increasing the body's ability to fight viruses and cancer tumors.

The Chinese medicine believes that mung bean sprouts its cool, sweet taste non-toxic, can clear the Department of heat, adjust the five organs, resolve all the poison, diuretic and dehumidification, can be used for excessive drinking, dampness and heat stagnation, less food and body fatigue. Hypertension and coronary heart disease patients, summer can often eat vegetarian fried mung bean sprouts. Folk with mung bean sprouts with carp stew, treatment of lactation. Mung bean sprouts juice, add sugar tea, urinary tract infection, urinary red heat, urinary frequency and so on.