You must have heard of the four seasons beans, but what about the four-sided beans? What is the sacredness of the four-sided bean that is a word away from the four seasons of beans? Why is it called "four-sided beans"?
Look at the picture first and you will understand why it is called a four-sided bean.
We usually eat all kinds of beans are almost flat, this four-sided bean breaks the convention, rushes out of the restrictions of the box, grows into a legume plant in the strange look, a glance will be remembered, not only edges and angles, but also fine serrated teeth, the color like a green worm to the leaves of a lie, a look, but also really frightened.
This special bean, most people have not seen, because the origin in the tropics, the temperature requirements are relatively high, in China, only Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan and Taiwan have sporadic cultivation, other regions are difficult to find, because the origin is limited, so, the four-sided bean has become a local characteristics of the specialty vegetables, if you want to try fresh, there are fresh four-sided beans for sale on the Internet. In Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and other countries, tetragon beans are sold in high-end markets as rare health vegetables.
The young leaves, young pods and flowers of the four-sided beans can be eaten as vegetables, can be fried and salted.
Unlike ordinary carob, its root is a root and can also be eaten, and the seeds are rich in protein.
There are also several interesting names for the four-sided bean: wing bean, Goa bean, nila bean, emperor bean, and fragrant dragon bean. Emperor bean, indicating its imperial status in legumes, is unparalleled no.one.
There are 8-17 seeds in each pod, the seeds of ordinary beans are generally oval, and the seeds of the four-sided beans are almost spherical, and the colors are white, yellow, brown, black or mixed with various colors. Can make soy milk, tofu and other foods, but also can be squeezed oil, rich in vitamin E, known as the "king of VE"
These are not surprising, the best is that its seed protein content is as high as 28-40%, fat content of 15-18%, but also rich in vitamins and minerals, has a certain medicinal value, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cerebral vascular sclerosis, infertility, habitual abortion, oral inflammation, urinary system inflammation, eye diseases and other 19 diseases have a good effect, the leaves can be used as an external dressing for eye diseases, the root can alleviate sore throat, toothache and other symptoms.
Its root protein content is four times that of potatoes, a four-sided bean, roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits can be edible, and has a high nutritional value, called a rare treasure plant, therefore, four-sided beans are also known as "the king of beans", "green gold".
That's not all it can do, its old stems and leaves can be used as feed and green manure after being crushed.
So, the question is, why is such an excellent variety little known, not widely planted and vigorously promoted, so that it can be on the table of thousands of people?
This is because the growth of four-sided beans has certain requirements for temperature, humidity and length of sunshine, and even people in the area of origin know very little about the nutritional value and medicinal value of four-sided beans, but they are only grown as their own daily edible vegetables.
With the advent of the Internet era, more and more people began to know and understand the four-sided beans, farmers also smelled the business opportunities in it, began to expand planting, and now the four-edged beans on the market are sold for more than ten yuan per kilogram.
Agronomists are also trying to cultivate four-sided beans suitable for planting all over the country, so that it can take root in thousands of households, I believe that it will not be long before it will appear in vegetable farms everywhere, and ordinary beans are no different, and can be bought when you want to eat.
The flower language of the four-sided bean: homesickness
This should be the exclusive flower language of wanderers in foreign-producing areas, just like oil bean carob for me, there must be a part of the taste that is inseparable from nostalgia.
Flower
Flowers | Name | volume
Four-sided beans:
Legumes, tetragonal beans.
Aliases: Wing Bean, Goa Bean, Nila Bean, Emperor Bean, Xianglong Bean
Because of its rich nutritional value, it is known as "green gold" and "king of beans".
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