When drinking mung bean soup for the purpose of relieving summer heat, don't eat beans together. Just drink clear soup, don't cook it for too long. Boil raw mung beans with cold water, and then cook them with high fire for five or six minutes, which can achieve good results.
If you want to cook mung beans quickly, you can wash them, put them in a thermos, pour boiling water and cover them. After 2-3 hours, mung bean grains will swell and soften, and it will boil easily in a short time after cooking. Boiled mung bean soup has a good effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. This kind of mung bean soup has a diuretic effect, so its color is turbid, and its summer heat relieving effect is poor, but it has a strong heat-clearing and detoxification effect.
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Efficacy of mung bean
1, improving human immunity
Mung beans contain a variety of biochemical substances, such as coumarin and alkaloids. These active substances can improve human immunity.
2, reduce the body's absorption of cholesterol.
Mung bean contains phytosterol with similar structure to cholesterol, which can compete with cholesterol for esterifying enzyme and reduce the absorption of cholesterol in intestine.
3. Prevention of arteriosclerosis
Mung beans contain nutrients such as vitamin B 1 and vitamin B2. These nutrients have a strong antioxidant effect, which can inhibit the production of lipid peroxide and prevent the oxidation of free radicals to the body, thus preventing the occurrence of diseases such as atherosclerosis.
People's Network-How to easily cook mung beans? Benefits of drinking mung bean soup in summer
People's Network-Mung bean soup can relieve summer heat and quench thirst, but it is not suitable for three people to drink.