Mung bean is a very suitable whole grain for summer consumption, it contains polyphenols, a variety of vitamins and minerals such as calcium, iron and potassium, which have the effect of clearing heat and cooling down and diuretic.
It is best to drink green, non-flowering mung bean soup to cool off
Careful friends will find that when cooking mung bean soup, sometimes the soup is green, sometimes it is red, are they the same effect of cooling off?
There are some differences in the role of the two colors of soup. From the perspective of relieving heat and clearing heat, the effect of green mung bean soup may be better.
The polyphenols in the skin of mung beans have a certain inhibitory effect on the temperature regulation center, and this polyphenol is more sensitive, in the case of high temperature heating, it reacts with oxygen in the air, oxidizes into quinones, and continues to polymerize into darker substances.
Therefore, if the mung bean soup is boiled in a short period of time, the soup does not touch oxygen, and the boiled soup is green.
If the lid is opened and the cooking time becomes longer, the polyphenols will be oxidized and the mung bean soup will turn red.
Of course, if the cooked mung bean soup is left in the air for a long time, the color will gradually turn red and deepen.
However, it is not that boiled into red can not be drunk, in general, the nutritional difference between the two colors of mung bean soup is not particularly large, boiled into red can still drink, but from the perspective of obtaining polyphenols, diuretics, green mung bean soup effect will be better.
How much mung bean soup is more appropriate to drink in a day?
Vary.
You can control the amount of drinking according to your own tolerance, generally 2 to 4 small bowls a day, if you feel comfortable after drinking, you can drink more.
However, don't drink too much, and don't use mung bean soup instead of boiled water. Because water is a pure carrier that dissolves other nutrients, transport nutrients flow smoothly through the body.
As for the time to drink, it is best to put it between meals, drink at room temperature, and try to drink less or no refrigerated mung bean soup to avoid abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.
If the stomach is relatively weak, after drinking mung bean soup is uncomfortable, such a person can add some rice to cook mung bean porridge to eat, you can also eat mung bean flour processing, can play a certain role.
After drinking the soup, what about the remaining beans?
Eat.
Cooked mung beans, their skin and meat contain certain colloidal components and insoluble dietary fiber, which can take out the relatively excess cholesterol and triglycerides in the body, or delay the absorption of cholesterol and triglycerides.
Therefore, from this point of view, it is recommended that you eat the beans in the soup.
You also need to remind your friends that if you drink green mung bean soup to cool off, you can turn off the heat and drink it after cooking for more than 10 minutes. However, at this time, the mung beans, no flowering, not easy to digest, you can continue to cook the mung beans for 20 minutes to boil the flowers, and then eat them, or directly use the mung beans to boil porridge to drink, are OK.
Department of Clinical Nutrition, Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Professor Yu Kang
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Yu Kang
Professor and Director of the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Member of the Nutrition Standards Committee of the National Health Commission
Director of the Chinese Nutrition Society