Many people always think about what to eat, and they always dare not eat anywhere. In fact, legumes are one of the best choices for people. Today, let's take a look at the benefits of eating legumes, as well as the effects of red beans and soybeans.
Benefits of eating beans
Eating beans often can make our health healthier. Let's see what kind of beans to eat.
1. Spleen-strengthening beans-broad beans
Broad bean has a sweet taste, has the effect of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, and is especially suitable for people with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. But broad beans can't be eaten raw, and they can't be eaten too much to prevent bloating. What needs special attention is that a few people will have acute hemolytic anemia after eating broad beans, which is commonly known as "broad bean yellow disease", and should be sent to hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
2. Toilet beans-Dutch beans
Dutch bean pods are rich in B vitamins and vitamin C, which have the effects of dispelling fire, replenishing water, beautifying and brightening skin. Besides being rich in vitamins, Dutch beans are also rich in dietary fiber, which can lower cholesterol, promote peristalsis of large intestine, and relieve constipation.
3. Heart-protecting bean-edamame
Soybean is rich in nutrients such as plant protein, potassium, magnesium, B vitamins and dietary fiber, and also contains health-care ingredients such as saponin, phytic acid and oligosaccharide, which is very beneficial for protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and controlling blood pressure.
4. Heat-clearing beans-mung beans
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, mung bean is cool and sweet, and has the effects of moistening throat and quenching thirst, clearing heat and replenishing qi, detoxifying and diuresis. On a hot summer day, the heat attacks people, and drinking a bowl of mung bean soup makes them feel refreshed. In addition, mung beans can also clear the stomach heat.
5. Weight loss beans-kidney beans
Kidney beans are rich in nutrition, with high contents of protein, calcium, iron and B vitamins. It is worth noting that saponins in kidney beans can promote fat metabolism, and they also contain ingredients that can prevent sugar absorption, so they are one of the ideal foods to lose weight.
6. Lipid-lowering beans-soybeans
Soybean protein and soybean sterol in soybean can obviously improve blood lipid and cholesterol, thus reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. In addition, soybeans also contain a lot of phytoestrogens, which can reduce the incidence of hormone-related cancers in women.
7. swelling-reducing bean-red bean
Red bean is flat in nature, and can clear away heat and toxic materials, strengthen spleen and stomach, induce diuresis and reduce swelling. In the hot summer, the human body is prone to edema. Drinking a bowl of red bean soup can effectively relieve edema.
8. Eye-protecting beans-peas
Peas are round and bright green, and they look very nice. Peas don't just win by their appearance. They are rich in vitamin A and have the therapeutic effect of eye protection. In addition, its vitamin C content is much higher than that of dried beans, which is delicious and helps to improve immunity.
9. Cowpea for nourishing stomach
Cowpeas are divided into long cowpeas and rice cowpeas. Long cowpea, as we call it, is often eaten as a vegetable. Rice cowpea can be used with rice to cook porridge or make bean paste stuffing. Cowpea has a sweet taste, has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying kidney and stopping leucorrhea, and is especially suitable for those who suffer from indigestion, abdominal distension, kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission and increased leucorrhea.
Four Benefits of Eating Red Beans
Benefits: nourishing the heart and enriching the blood
Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in ancient times, called red beans "the valley of the heart", emphasizing the heart-nourishing effect of red beans. Red beans can clear the heart fire, but also make up the blood. Its crude fiber substance is rich, which is clinically helpful to lower blood lipid, lower blood pressure and improve cardiac activity. At the same time, it is rich in iron, which can invigorate qi and blood, so that your hands and feet are no longer cold in winter.
Two benefits: strengthening the spleen and stomach
In the cold winter, our spleen and stomach digestive ability will be relatively strong, but the absorption will be better, so those who are weak should step up their tonic in winter and make a good nutrition reserve for the coming year, so that they will be energetic, strong and not sick in the coming year. Red bean, called "red bean" in traditional Chinese medicine, also has obvious spleen and stomach strengthening effect.
Benefits: Eliminate edema.
Besides being rich in potassium, the saponin contained in the skin of red bean also has a strong diuretic effect, which can well improve the edema of face and feet caused by beriberi and kidney function decline. Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema.
Four benefits: eliminating dampness and clearing heat
According to Chinese medicine, water can't flow with qi and blood, but it will stay between human cells, causing the human body to expand rapidly. The adzuki bean is rich in B vitamins and iron, and also contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, niacin and other ingredients, which have the functions of clearing away heat and diuresis, eliminating dampness and expelling toxin.
Therefore, if women want to look rosy and shiny, the first thing they have to do is to replenish blood to their bodies, and red beans have this effect. If they eat it regularly, they can replenish blood to their bodies. That is, it also has the function of slimming, so those women who love beauty don't need to worry that eating it often will make them fat. On the contrary, eating it more will make them thinner.
Benefits of eating soybeans
1. Lowering blood lipid
The plant sterol in soybean also has the effect of lowering blood cholesterol, which can compete with cholesterol after entering the intestinal tract, thus reducing cholesterol absorption. But while lowering the "bad cholesterol" in the blood, it does not affect the "good cholesterol" in the blood.
2. Prevent arteriosclerosis.
Soybean can prevent arteriosclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and protect heart. Lecithin in soybeans can also prevent excessive fat accumulation in the liver, thus effectively preventing and treating fatty liver caused by obesity.
3, hypoglycemic and lipid-lowering
Soybean contains a substance that inhibits pancreatic enzyme, which has a therapeutic effect on diabetes. Saponins contained in soybean can obviously reduce blood lipid and inhibit weight gain.
4. Whitening and skin care
Soybean can effectively improve skin aging and relieve climacteric syndrome. At the same time, experiments by Japanese researchers found that linoleic acid contained in soybeans can effectively prevent the synthesis of melanin in skin cells.
5. Prevention of Alzheimer's disease
Eating more soybeans at ordinary times can also effectively prevent Alzheimer's disease. Moreover, soybean also contains a substance called sterol, which can effectively increase the nerve function, thus promoting its vitality.
6. Prevention of cancer
Soybean has the effect of preventing cancer, and it has certain inhibitory effect on different cancers. Especially for breast cancer, its inhibitory effect is the most obvious.
Summary: Legumes can be said to be one of the healthiest foods. Eating Legumes regularly can protect your health and effectively prevent diseases. Besides, Legumes can also help you lose weight and beautify your face. It can be said to be the best food, so you might as well eat more Legumes in your life.
