Beans, Big Differences in Function! The Bean Best Suited for You Is This One!

Modern nutrition has also proven that consistently consuming legumes daily for just two weeks can reduce body fat, boost immunity, and lower the risk of illness. However, different legumes have their unique effects and are best suited for different people. Therefore, to achieve health benefits from eating legumes, you must first get to know them and find the one that's best for you.

Double Pepper Tossed Soybeans

Soybeans – "The King of Legumes"

Soybeans are rich in protein, fat, lecithin, and various vitamins. Compared to other foods, soybeans contain twice as much protein as lean meat, twice as much as eggs, and the same amount as cow's milk, providing high-quality protein essential for growth and development. It has earned the reputation of "the king of soybeans."

Nutritional Value of Soybeans: Can lower human cholesterol, reduce arteriosclerosis, and prevent heart disease, coronary heart disease, and hypertensive atherosclerosis.

Suitable For: Especially suitable for menopausal women, diabetics, patients with cardiovascular diseases, mental workers, and people on a diet. However, individuals with poor digestion or chronic digestive diseases should consume soybeans and related products in moderation.

Stir-Fried Sword Bean Shreds

Sword Beans – Calming and Anti-Cancer

Sword beans contain urease, lectin, canavanine, and other substances. They have excellent effects on calming the mind, enhancing immunity, and anti-tumor activity. In recent years, canavaline I and II have also been found in its young pods, which have therapeutic effects for hepatic coma and anti-cancer properties.

Suitable For: Particularly suitable for patients with kidney deficiency and back pain, qi stagnation and hiccups, rheumatic back pain, and pediatric hernia.

Mung Bean and Coix Seed Soup

Mung Beans – Clearing Heat and Detoxifying

Mung beans are rich in vitamins A, B, and C, have the effect of lowering blood pressure, and are very effective for fatigue, swelling, and difficult urination.

Suitable For:

1. Those with symptoms of irritability, restlessness, dry throat, and thirst during hot and humid weather or heatstroke;

2. Patients with skin infections caused by heat toxins, such as sores, carbuncles, and erysipelas;

3. Patients with high blood pressure, edema, and red eyes;

4. For emergency consumption in cases of food poisoning, herbal poisoning, metal poisoning, pesticide poisoning, gas poisoning, and zinc phosphide poisoning.

5. Mung beans are cool in nature; people with weak spleen and stomach or a cold constitution should not eat too many.

Homemade Honey Red Beans

Red Beans – Promoting Urination and Reducing Swelling

Red beans contain abundant nutrients such as folic acid, dietary fiber, phosphorus, calcium, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and niacin. They have effects of promoting urination to reduce swelling and stimulating lactation, and have certain therapeutic effects for kidney and heart diseases.

Suitable For: Generally suitable for everyone, especially for postpartum women with insufficient milk supply, and people who are obese or have edema. However, red beans are diuretic, so those with frequent urination should eat them in moderation.

Scallion-fermented Rice Wine with Lima Beans

Lima Beans – Weight Loss and Slimming

Lima beans, also known as green beans, kidney beans, or snap beans, are rich in protein and various trace elements such as calcium, iron, and B vitamins. They are also characterized by high potassium, high magnesium, and low sodium, making them especially suitable for patients with heart disease and those with kidney disease, hypertension, etc., who require a low-sodium and low-potassium diet. Additionally, saponins in lima beans can promote fat metabolism, and they also contain ingredients that can prevent the absorption of carbohydrates, making them one of the ideal foods for weight loss.

Suitable For: Generally suitable for everyone, but because lima beans produce excessive gas during digestion and absorption, causing bloating, people with poor digestion or chronic digestive diseases should try to avoid them.