Mung bean soup has a unique effect of relieving summer heat. Chinese medicine believes that mung bean has the effects of relieving summer heat and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and quenching thirst, and inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, which can prevent heatstroke. Related experiments show that mung bean has obvious effects on treating atherosclerosis, lowering blood cholesterol and protecting liver. The only drawback is that mung beans are too cold to be eaten by the weak.

Mung bean soup is a traditional folk food for relieving summer heat in China. Mung bean soup has many cooking methods and tastes, the most important ones are barley mung bean soup, lily mung bean soup, pumpkin mung bean soup and kelp mung bean soup.

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There are many benefits to drinking mung bean soup, but two points should be paid attention to in the production process:

1, it is not suitable to use an iron pot to cook mung bean soup.

Most of the effective components of mung beans are in the epidermis. If the flavonoids in the epidermis react with metal ions, it is possible to form a dark complex, which will make the color of mung bean soup black, and people may have gastrointestinal discomfort and indigestion after eating it. Therefore, mung bean soup is not suitable for iron pot cooking, and the most ideal thing is to cook it in casserole.

2. It is not advisable to add alkali when cooking mung bean soup.

Vitamin B contained in mung beans can make up for the nutritional loss of human body when sweating, while alkali will seriously destroy vitamin B. At the same time, flavonoids and antioxidant components in mung beans will also be lost due to the addition of alkali, resulting in changes in the internal structure of mung beans and yellow color. Therefore, it is best not to add alkali to the cooked mung bean soup. If you want to make mung bean soup more viscous, you can add a small amount of oatmeal or glutinous rice to "thicken".

References:

People's Network-You must drink two kinds of soup in summer, and remember four principles.

References:

People's Network-Mung bean soup is a "cool weapon" in summer? If you don't drink it right, it will be counterproductive.