The benefits of eating mung beans

I think everyone is familiar with the effects and functions of mung beans. Let’s review it with me below.

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Mung bean is one of the foods commonly used to clear away heat, detoxify, relieve summer heat and quench thirst. Mung bean is cool in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying and removing fire. It is also a representative food of traditional Chinese medicine. In terms of nutrients, it is rich in protein, carbohydrates, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, amylase, oxidase, etc.

Benefits of Mung Beans

Mung beans have a strong detoxifying effect and can remove a variety of toxins, but this is only for raw mung beans. Therefore, it is particularly important to note that raw mung beans have the strongest effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and removing fire. Their nutritional components and medicinal effects will change with temperature after heating.

Therefore, in order to maximize the detoxification effect of mung beans, you should boil the raw mung beans with cold water, and then cook them for about 5 minutes on high heat (the soup is green but not red). Otherwise, as the processing temperature increases and the cooking time increases, the various enzymes contained in the mung beans will be inactivated due to overheating, and the nutrient content will also decrease. At the same time, when mung beans are cooked from raw to cooked, certain physical and chemical changes will occur in this process, and their efficacy will also change accordingly, and the efficacy of clearing heat and detoxification will also decrease. However, for people with weak spleen and stomach, if you are worried that mung beans are too cold, you can wait until the mung bean soup is boiled and cook it for an extra hour before drinking it.

Like mung beans, many foods have different effects depending on how they are cooked, which is in line with an old Chinese saying: "Raw food has its own way of using it, and cooked food has its own way of using it."