Difference is as follows:

1, shape

Red beans, head slightly larger, cylindrical, dark brown-red surface, is commonly used to do bean paste beans. Red beans, smaller, elongated red and black, red as Zhu, black as paint, poisonous.

2, taste

Red beans after boiling will become soft, but the red beans, although after soaking in water into the pot inside the boil, after cooking the red beans to eat feel more hard.

3, cooking

Red beans because it is easy to cook soft, so it is more suitable for porridge to eat; and red beans are more hard, generally suitable for soup.

Species difference

Red beans and red beans

Red beans source of two, the efficacy of the application is more or less the same, red beans are cool, medicinal use of the superior; red beans sweet and flat slightly in favor of complementary, more as food. The two have been mixed.

Red beans and Acacia

Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei has a popular poem of love: "red beans in the South, spring hair a few branches, I wish you more pick, this thing is the most Acacia." This is the most lovesick thing in the world." It is a famous poem that has been recited for thousands of years because it expresses lovesickness through the use of objects in a euphemistic and subtle way. But Wang Wei said "red beans" refers to the legume "Acacia" seeds, while the Chinese medicine "red beans" refers to the legume red beans or red beans dry mature seeds, also called The Chinese medicine "red bean" refers to the dried mature seeds of the legume red bean or red bean, also known as "red bean".

The seeds of the leguminous plant Phaseolus vulgaris, commonly known as "red beans", are pungent, bitter, and flat, and have a great poisonous effect; they should not be mixed with red beans to avoid poisoning.

Cajanus cajanensis and wood beans

Wood beans are a hybrid of Cajanus cajanensis, and to date, many regions still use Cajanus cajanensis as a medicine, or Cajanus cajanensis as a medicine. Cajanus cajan (Linn.) Millsp. is a leguminous plant, also known as red beans, tree beans, Guanyin beans (Fujian), large wood beans (Guangxi), three-leaf beans (Yunnan).

Seeds slightly flat, orbicular, 0.6-0.8cm long, 0.5-0.7cm wide, new plants can be as big as soybean, seed coat yellowish brown to reddish brown, white umbilicus, in the longitudinal depression into a groove, and one end of the connection with the seed coat is often a dark brown spot. Cotyledons two fat. Seeds in southern Fujian according to the same use of red beans, with detoxification and swelling, the main treatment of pediatric chicken pox, carbuncle sores and poison, decoction of water to wash or mashed external application of the function.