One of the differences between red beans and adzuki beans;

Red adzuki bean, small, slender, red and black, red as cinnabar, black as paint, toxic. There is a very important kind called Guadi powder, which uses the toxicity of adzuki beans to induce vomiting.

Red beans, slightly larger, are cylindrical and have a dark brown-red surface. They are beans commonly used to make bean paste, which have the function of eliminating dampness.

The second difference between red beans and red beans;

Adzuki bean is an edible red bean food, which looks like soybean. Avoid mixing with red beans. Adzuki bean contains protein, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, calcium, iron and other nutrients, and has the function of reducing blood fat and weight. The famous medicinal diet red bean carp soup has the functions of diuresis, detumescence, weight loss and bodybuilding while people taste delicious food.

Adzuki bean has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, and ventilating to relieve annoyance, and can be used for treating dysuria, spleen edema, beriberi, etc. Eating red beans and carp in soup can play a dietetic role in edema, beriberi and dysuria. It can also treat liver cirrhosis, liver ascites and complement deficiency; The soup made of red beans and winter melon is a good diet to solve the whole body edema; Boiled red beans with lentils and barley can treat diarrhea. In addition, red beans can also be used with traditional Chinese medicine, such as red beans with forsythia and angelica soup, which can treat liver abscess.

The third difference between red beans and red beans;

Adzuki bean is slender and slightly flat. Red beans will soften when cooked, but even if they are soaked, they will not rot and taste bad.

The fourth difference between red beans and red beans:

Red beans are suitable for porridge, stuffing and snacks. Cooking porridge with red beans and japonica rice not only helps to reduce swelling, but also strengthens the spleen and stomach. Red bean and winter melon soup is a healthy sweet soup for children, which has the effect of dispelling summer heat and strengthening the spleen.

Red beans are hard and hard to cook. If you want to cook with japonica rice, cook red beans first and then add japonica rice. In addition, adzuki beans are suitable for seasoning with appropriate amount of sugar, but not with salt, otherwise it is not conducive to the discharge of water. I asked several Chinese medicine practitioners, and they said that although the species seem to be different, adzuki bean and adzuki bean are the same, both belong to leguminous plants, with similar properties and nutrients, but adzuki bean has stronger efficacy, so adzuki bean is used as medicine, while adzuki bean is only commonly eaten.