AKA green beans (named for its color green), green beans, plant beans, etc., in China has more than two thousand years of cultivation history. The origin is in India, Myanmar area. Now East Asian countries commonly planted, Africa, Europe, the United States also have a small amount of planting, China, Myanmar and other countries is the main exporter of green beans. The seeds and stems are widely eaten. Mung beans clear heat in the skin and detoxify the flesh.

Mung bean soup is the family's regular summer drink, summer appetizer, young and old. Traditional mung bean products are mung bean cake, mung bean wine, mung bean cake, mung bean paste, mung bean vermicelli and so on.

2, red beans

The red bean is a poisonous plant in the genus Acacia of the legume family, widely distributed in tropical areas. The seeds contain a protein called acacia toxic protein, this toxin has a strong toxicity, accidentally eaten will be poisoned, and in serious cases will even die. The seeds can be made into beaded jewelry and percussion instruments; Taiwanese folk have also been rumored to use the stems into the tea to add flavor to the practice.

Produced in Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan. Born in open forests in mountainous areas. Widespread in tropical areas.

3, peas

Leguminosae annual climbing herb, 0.5-2 meters high. The whole plant is green, smooth and glabrous, frosted. Leaves with 4-6 leaflets, stipules cordate, lower margin denticulate. Leaflets ovoid; flowers in leaf axils solitary or several arranged in racemes; calyx campanulate, lobes lanceolate; corolla color varies with species, but mostly white and purple.

Native to the Mediterranean and Central Asia, is one of the world's important cultivated crops. Seeds and young pods, seedlings are edible; seeds contain starch, oil, can be used for medicinal purposes, strong, diuretic, diarrhea effect; stems and leaves can be cooled to relieve the summer heat, and for green manure, fodder or fuel.

4, soybean

for the dicotyledonous plants, Fabaceae, soybean 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; common pedicel usually with 5-8 sessile, tightly crowded flowers; bracts lanceolate, strigose;

bracteoles lanceolate, ambiguously bristled; calyx lanceolate, flowers purple, lilac, or white, petaloid at the base, winged petals castor-like Calyx lanceolate, flowers purple, lavender or white, base petiolate, winged petals castoriform. Pods plump, slightly curved, pendulous, yellowish green, densely covered with tawny long hairs; seeds 2-5, ellipsoid, subglobose, with smooth seed coat, diversified in light green, yellow, brown and black. Flowering June-July, fruiting July-September.

5, black beans

Black beans for the legume soybean black seeds. Black bean protein content of 36%, easy to digest, to meet the body's need for protein is important; fat content of 16%, mainly containing unsaturated fatty acids, absorption rate of up to 95%, in addition to meet the human body on the need for fat, but also to reduce the role of cholesterol in the blood;

Black beans are rich in vitamins, lutein, melanin and lecithin and other substances, which B vitamins and vitamin E content is very high. Vitamin E content is very high, with nutritional health effects, black beans are also rich in trace elements, to maintain the functional integrity of the body, slow down the aging of the body, reduce blood viscosity, to meet the brain on the demand for trace substances are essential.