Babies are prone to get angry in summer, and mung beans are one of the main components of summer heat. In the sultry summer, a bowl of mung bean soup instantly refreshes you.
nutritive value
Mung bean is rich in nutrition, containing high-quality protein, unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, inorganic salts and so on. According to the determination, every 100g mung bean contains protein 21.6g. Eating mung beans and supplementing protein can improve immunity, enhance resistance, replenish energy and eliminate fatigue.
Mung beans are also rich in calcium, which contributes to the healthy development of bones and maintains the health of bones.
Clearing heat and detoxicating: Mung bean is rich in dietary fiber and potassium, which is beneficial to defecation and urination, and has an inhibitory effect on viruses, so it has the effect of clearing heat and detoxicating.
Stimulate appetite: Mung beans are rich in protein and phospholipids, which can promote nerve excitement, improve body function, increase body nutrition and stimulate appetite.
Protect kidney: Mung bean is rich in trypsin inhibitor, which can reduce protein decomposition and protect kidney.
Prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease: Polysaccharide in mung bean can enhance the activity of serum lipoprotein enzyme, hydrolyze triglyceride in lipoprotein, and achieve the effect of reducing blood lipid, thus preventing and treating coronary heart disease.
Applicable personnel
Mung beans can be eaten by ordinary people, especially those with severe edema, obese patients, people who are prone to get angry due to body heat, people with high blood pressure, eye diseases and poisoning.
Can the baby eat?
Yes, you can. Baby eating mung beans can supplement nutrition, strengthen the body, supplement high-quality protein, improve the body's immunity and enhance resistance. Generally, babies after one year old can be fed as long as their digestion is normal and there is no spleen deficiency and stomach cold.
However, mung beans are cold. If it is cold, babies with weak stomach and diarrhea should not eat it. As the saying goes, "Snacks taste too much, and eating too much is bad for the stomach", and you can't eat more beneficial things, so can mung beans, just in moderation.
Can pregnant women eat?
Yes, you can. Proper consumption of mung beans by pregnant women in summer can remove fetal toxicity and supplement nutrition, which is a good diet for pregnant women to supplement zinc and prevent pregnancy edema.
However, mung beans are cold. If you are a pregnant woman who is naturally afraid of cold and has diarrhea all the year round, don't eat mung beans.
Can I eat during lactation?
Yes, you can. Eating mung beans during lactation can supplement nutrition, strengthen the body, ensure the healthy nutrition of milk, and promote the healthy development of babies after breastfeeding. It can also reduce the edema of the body.
Eating mung beans is very particular.
1, cold constitution should not eat mung beans.
Mung bean itself is cold, and people with cold body will aggravate symptoms and cause diarrhea.
2, the gastrointestinal digestive function is poor, and people with weak constitution should not eat mung beans.
It is difficult for people with poor stomach and weak body to convert and absorb protein in mung beans, which may easily lead to diarrhea.
People who are taking medicine should not eat mung beans.
The detoxification components of mung beans will react with the related components of drugs, thus reducing the efficacy.
4, can not drink mung bean soup on an empty stomach.
Mung bean soup is cold, and drinking it on an empty stomach is not good for the stomach.
5, mung bean soup can not be drunk every day.
Ordinary adults can drink a bowl two or three times a week. Children can only drink adult quantity after 6 years old.
6. Don't cook mung beans in an iron pot.
Flavonoids and metal ions in mung bean skin may form darker compounds. Although no toxic substances are produced in this reaction, it may interfere with the antioxidant effect of mung beans.
7, boiled mung beans must be covered.
Polyphenols in mung beans are easily oxidized. Cover and minimize the contact area with oxygen.
Summary of mung bean recipes
Mung bean milk porridge (12M+)
Ingredients: 50g mung bean,100g rice, 300ml breast milk or formula milk.
working methods
(1) Put a proper amount of water in the pot, add mung beans and cook until the mung beans bloom. Add the soaked rice and continue to cook porridge. After boiling, turn to low heat and cook until mung beans and rice are soft and rotten.
② At this time, the porridge has been cooked, then pour in breast milk or formula milk, and continue to cook for 5 minutes after re-opening, then turn off the heat.
Old duck soup with white gourd and mung bean (12M+)
Ingredients: duck 1 leg, wax gourd 100g, Euryale ferox rice 10g, 2g mung bean, 2 teaspoons of salt and 3 slices of ginger.
working methods
① Prepare mung beans and Euryale ferox. Chop the duck into small pieces, rinse it, boil the water in the pot, add the duck meat, blanch it for 10 minute, take it out and rinse it. Wash the wax gourd, peel it and cut it into large pieces.
② Drain the pot again, add duck meat, washed mung beans and Euryales, and add ginger slices. Bring the fire to a boil, turn it down and stew for about an hour and a half. Put the cut wax gourd into the pot, continue to stew for half an hour, and add the right amount of salt to taste.
Sesame and mung bean rice (18M+)
Ingredients: 30 grams of mung bean, 50 grams of celery, 40 grams of white rice, 2 tablespoons of black sesame.
working methods
① Put the soaked mung beans, diced celery, white rice and black sesame into the rice cooker, then add a proper amount of water and cook.
Mung bean popsicle (baby eats less ice)
Ingredients: cooked mung bean paste100g, milk120g, whipped cream100g, corn starch 5g and sugar 50g.
working methods
(1) Mix the milk, whipped cream and corn starch evenly, pour in the cooked mung beans, heat them with low fire, stir them while heating, and turn off the fire and cool them when they are sticky.