Nutritional value of soybean sprouts

Soybean sprouts are crisp, tender, delicious and one of the most popular vegetables loved by everyone. Soybean sprouts are the sprouts of processed soybeans and are a nutritious vegetable. One of the leaders of "natural" and "healthy" food in the world today is bean sprouts from my country, especially the golden "Ruyi vegetable" - soybean sprouts. Chen Yi, a Ming Dynasty poet, once wrote a poem praising soybean sprouts: "There is that thing, with ice-like skin and jade-like quality, its seeds do not enter the mud, and its roots do not need support." More nutrients are released during the germination process of soybeans, which is more conducive to human absorption...

Nutritional value of soybean sprouts

Although soybean sprouts originate from soybeans, they are more nutritious than soybeans. This is because after soybeans are soaked in water and sprout, the protein and starch in them undergo quantitative and qualitative changes under the action of various biological enzymes contained in the beans. For example, the protein in soybeans is hydrolyzed into amino acids and peptides, and some starch is converted into monosaccharides and oligosaccharides.

After soybean sprouts are produced, the content of protein and starch in them is reduced, but their biological utilization rate is greatly increased. Moreover, amino acids and monosaccharides are more easily absorbed by the human body than proteins and starch. Relevant experiments have also confirmed that compared with soybeans, soybean sprouts contain significantly more riboflavin, 2-3 times more carotene, 2 times more niacin, 1 times more folic acid, and significantly more polyols, while vitamin B12 increases by as much as 12 times. It can be seen that although soybeans are rich in nutrition, soybean sprouts have higher nutritional value.

Rich in potassium, it helps maintain nerve health, normal heartbeat, prevents stroke, and assists in normal muscle contraction. It has the effect of lowering blood pressure.

Suitable for the crowd:

People with hyperthyroidism.

The therapeutic effects of soybean sprouts

1. Clear away heat and fire:

It tastes bitter, can clear the heart and purge fire, clear away heat and relieve restlessness, and can eliminate heat and toxins in the blood. It is suitable for people who are prone to getting angry. It has the functions of clearing away heat and dampness, reducing swelling and removing numbness, removing moles, treating warts, and moisturizing the skin; it has a therapeutic effect on spleen and stomach dampness and heat, constipation, common warts, and hyperlipidemia.

2. Nourishing blood and replenishing qi:

Soybean sprouts have the effects of nourishing qi and blood, preventing gum bleeding, cardiovascular sclerosis and low cholesterol. It is used for hemorrhagic anemia; 250 grams of soybean sprouts, 15 grams of jujube, 250 grams of pork bones, add appropriate amount of water and fry for a long time, add salt to taste, eat bean sprouts and drink soup 3 times a day.

3. Improve eyesight:

It can prevent and treat eye diseases such as dry eyes, blurred vision, conjunctival congestion, optic neuritis, ptosis, pupil dilation, myopia, etc. Soybean sprouts can effectively prevent and treat vitamin B2 deficiency.

4. Remove fat and lower blood pressure:

It can soften and protect blood vessels, and has the effect of lowering blood lipids and cholesterol in the human body. The vitamin E contained in soybean sprouts can protect the skin and capillaries, prevent arteriosclerosis, and prevent and treat hypertension in the elderly.

5. Beauty and skin care:

It can enhance the skin's ability to resist damage. Soybean sprouts contain vitamin C and are beauty foods. Eating soybean sprouts regularly can nourish hair, keep it black and shiny, and have a good effect on fading facial freckles.

6. Brain health:

Containing phosphorus, it is an important component for synthesizing lecithin and cephalin, which can enhance memory, delay brain function decline, inhibit platelet aggregation, and prevent cerebral thrombosis. Eating soybean sprouts regularly can strengthen the brain and resist fatigue.

7. Anti-cancer and anti-tumor:

Prevent cancer and reduce the incidence of cancer.

8. Laxative

B vitamins can promote the secretion of digestive juices, maintain and promote intestinal peristalsis, and facilitate defecation. Pregnant women eating more of them can help relieve pregnancy-induced hypertension and postpartum constipation.

9. Other functions:

In recent years, it has been discovered that soybean sprouts contain a nitrophosphatase that can reduce epileptic seizures.

Medical experts have also found that soybean sprouts have anti-cancer and health-care effects. Soybean sprouts contain an interferon inducer that can induce interferon and increase the body's ability to resist viruses and tumors. Some scholars have also found in their research that soybeans and bean sprouts contain an enzyme that can hinder the synthesis of carcinogenic nitrosamines in the body; another report said that the Egyptian Cancer Research Center extracted a protease from soybeans, and animal experiments showed that this protease can dissolve cancerous mutant cells and play a role in preventing and treating cancer.