Benefits of red bean porridge

Red beans contain more saponins, which can stimulate the intestines. Therefore, it has a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcohol and detoxify, and is beneficial for heart disease, kidney disease, and edema.

It contains more dietary fiber and has good effects in moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and fighting cancer, preventing stones, and bodybuilding and weight loss.

Red bean is a food rich in folic acid. Postpartum women and nursing mothers can eat more red bean to promote lactation.

How to choose adzuki beans

1. Color: Beans with the inherent color of the variety, such as yellow for soybeans and black for black beans, are bright and shiny, which are good beans; if the color is dull and matte, they are inferior beans.

2. Texture: Good beans are those with full, neat and uniform grains, no broken petals, no defects, no insect pests, no mildew, and no hanging silk. Poor quality beans are those with thin, incomplete, uneven sizes, broken petals, insect bites, and mildew.

3. Dryness and wetness: If the soybeans make a crisp sound when you bite them and they break into pieces, it means the soybeans are dry; if they do not make a crisp sound, they are wet.

4. Aroma: High-quality beans have normal aroma and taste; those with sour or moldy smell are of poor quality.

Tips for making red beans

It is also suitable to be mixed with other cereal foods and usually made into bean paste buns, bean rice or bean porridge, which is a scientific way of consumption.