In summer, every household is inseparable from the "summer gods" - green beans. Mung beans are cool, sweet, summer heat, clear heat and detoxification. It contains proteins in the amino acids needed by the human body, its protein content is as high as 20% to 24%, is three times more than the cereal plants, calcium content is 7 times the chicken, and rich in various types of vitamins.
A bowl of mung bean soup in summer, not only quench the thirst of the summer, but also supplement the loss of minerals after sweating, especially sodium and potassium, suitable for drinking after summer sweating.
Add red dates: strengthen the spleen and blood
Compared with other seasons, summer is rainy, coupled with the attack of summer dampness, people are very easy to appetite, you may want to add some red dates in your favorite green bean soup.
Mung beans with spleen and qi, blood nourishing jujubes, to clear the heat, spleen and blood, and enhance the appetite of the effect is very good.
Ingredients: 300 grams of mung beans, 100 grams of jujubes, sugar in moderation.
Practice: directly into the pot and add water, large fire after boiling, and then switch to a small fire; see the green beans and dates are soft as mud when the fire, and finally into the sugar seasoning to eat.
Add kelp: prickly heat
High-temperature weather, children are prone to prickly heat, parents can add some kelp in the green bean soup.
Kelp can enhance the resistance to the invasion of staphylococcus epidermidis, this soup can clear heat and detoxification, swelling and diuretic.
Ingredients: 100 grams of green beans, 30 grams of kelp, 50 grams of sugar.
Practice: pour the ingredients into 1000 milliliters of water, then add sugar, and slowly simmer on a small fire for half an hour.
Note: Do not soak the kelp for too long, so as not to dissolve the mannitol on the surface of the kelp, which has the effect of swelling and diuresis.
Peppermint: clear throat Summer temperatures are high, many people feel the throat is dry, like holding a "fire". The green bean soup itself has the effect of reducing cough and fire, but add some mint will be better. The mint is pungent and cool, and the two are used together for better results. Ingredients: 100 grams of green beans, dry mint moderate, sugar moderate. Practice: first cook the green bean soup, and then dry mint rinse with water, add water to soak for half an hour, and then boiled over high heat, cooling; mint water filtered, and cooled mung bean soup can be mixed and stirred. Add Chenpi: strengthen the spleen to help digestion Chenpi is pungent and warm in nature, with the effect of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm. Note: the orange white part of the nature of the warm, will weaken the effect of mung beans to clear heat and detoxification, remember to scrape it off in advance. Ingredients: 50 grams of mung beans, peel, rock sugar. Practice: first soaked green beans into the water fire boil, adjusted to the fire slowly cooking; to be green beans will be cooked into the peel, and finally into the rock sugar seasoning to eat. Add honeysuckle: prevent heat stroke Honeysuckle is sweet and cold, with a heat detoxification, cool dispersal of the role of the wind heat, is a rare medicine to quench the thirst for heat, on the relief of the wind-heat cold, fever and other discomforts of the temperature also has a certain effect. Ingredients: 100 grams of green beans, 30 grams of honeysuckle, sugar. Practice: mung beans, honeysuckle into the pot, add the right amount of water and cook for about 10 minutes. Mung beans have many benefits, but not everyone is suitable for eating, some people eat instead of causing discomfort. 1. The cold body easily lead to diarrhea, and even reduce the digestive system immunity. 2. Gout patients Mung beans belong to the medium purine content (per 100 grams of 50 to 100 mg of purine), gout patients (especially with joint inflammation) is best to eat less. 3. Taking warm Chinese medicine Mung beans can solve the warm Chinese medicine, drink Chinese medicine when eating mung beans, will reduce the efficacy of the drug. Therefore, it is best not to eat it if you are taking warm and hot Chinese medicine. 4. Menstruating women Menstruating women's physique is cold, drinking mung bean soup is easy to lead to qi stagnation and blood stasis, causing abdominal pain, and even aggravate dysmenorrhea. 5. People with weak spleen and stomach Mung bean is cold, protein, weak spleen and stomach, digestive function is relatively poor, it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short period of time, it is easy to digest due to indigestion lead to diarrhea. 6. Pregnant women The lysine, protein, vitamins, calcium, zinc and other ingredients contained in green beans can effectively prevent and control pregnancy edema, is a good dietary supplement. But the nature of cold, pregnant women do not drink more. Produced by Jilin Daily Curated by Jiang Zhongxiao Author: Zhuang Zhuang