The most commonly used for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat must be simple and convenient mung bean soup. Mung bean has the reputation of "the best of beans" and is a health food for clearing away heat and toxic materials and relieving summer heat. Year after year, can there be a new way to clear away heat and relieve summer heat and eat nutritious and healthy food? In fact, it existed two thousand years ago.
"Bian Que Sandou Drink" recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and improving human immunity, and it is a prescription for treating acne by imperial doctor Bian Que. Eating when you have a cold and a fever is helpful for treatment. The specific method is simple: soak mung beans, black beans and red beans in water and cook them into soup. Adzuki bean belongs to diuretic and moisture-permeable food. If you eat too much body fluid, it is a good choice to use soybeans instead of adzuki beans.
Nutrition classifies soybeans, black beans, mung beans and adzuki beans as legumes, among which soybeans and black beans are high-quality protein and high-fat soybeans. Mung beans and adzuki beans are miscellaneous beans with low fat content and high starch content. Beans have high nutritional value and are an indispensable part of a reasonable diet. Dietary Guidelines for China Residents recommends that normal adults consume 50~ 150g whole grains, miscellaneous beans and products equivalent to 20g soybeans every day.
Bean food contains some anti-nutritional factors, which are not conducive to the absorption and utilization of nutrients in beans, and even harmful to human health. Therefore, we must pay attention to the amount of food consumed each time and use reasonable cooking methods.