Health Benefits Mung Bean Plant for Body
By Yanti
Mung Bean (Vigna radiate) is plants from the Fabaceae family and genus Vigna, mung bean plant is a popular and a lot of people eat this in many countries in Asia such as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, and Japan
Mung bean plant or mung beans, golden gram or green gram has many other nicknames such as Mugu different control, or mogu dail (Assamese), Moog dal, or Moong (Bengali and Marathi), green bean (Chinese), pe nauk , pe ti (Burmese), monggo, or munggo (East Timor and Filipino), kacang hijau (Indonesia), mung (Hindi), cheru payaru, or cherupayar (Malayalam), maash (Persian), moongi (Punjabi), choroko ( Swahili), Moong (Urdu), d?u xanh (Vietnamese), pesara (Telugu), pachaippayaru, or paciparuppu (Tamil).
Mung bean plant usually consumed with boiled and then eaten directly after boiling, or used as a green bean porridge. Many people who eat green beans with the material used to fill other snacks like onde-onde, gandasturi, bun, and some are made food with mung bean flour, also called by the name hunk-we flour used to manufacture various types of traditional cakes, ice cream and soun noodles.
Mung bean seeds germinate very easy that used to be called by the name of the bean sprouts. These sprouts are used as vegetables are eaten directly or used as a vegetable or mixed with other food before consumption. Mung bean and mung beans sprout contain various nutrients that are good for body health. Nutrition in mung beans is not diminished even though boiled to pieces so that the efficacy of green beans obtained from the nutrients contained therein are also still able to be maintained and utilized for health humans.
Mung Bean Nutrition
In mung beans plant contained many different kinds of nutrients that are beneficial to increase the body’s health, among others, Energy, Carbohydrates, Sugars, Dietary Fiber, Fat, Protein, Vitamin B complex, C, E, and K, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, and Selenium
Mung Bean Benefits
With the content of various nutrients found in mung bean plant then there are also many health benefits to be gained from this green gram, and some of mung bean benefits as below:
- Content of the Vitamin B1 in the mung bean plant is useful to increase appetite, help the growth process, improving the nerve, and improving the digestive tract, while the content of vitamin B2 are useful to help improve absorption of protein in the body.
- Vitamin C content in mung bean plant is useful as an antioxidant for the body to help ward off free radicals in the body so it is useful for slowing the aging process, minimize cancer, and others disease.
- The content of vitamin E in the beans however useful to help improve fertility, keeping the acidity of the stomach, improving digestion because it is alkaline, help smooth and rejuvenate the skin, cure acne, eliminate black spots on the face, slim body, and nourish the hair.
- Minerals such as phosphorus and potassium are beneficial for strengthening bone, and fat content is unsaturated fatty acids 73% and 27% saturated fatty acids that mung beans are good for heart health and for the people who run a weight loss dietprogram.
- Mung bean plant is believed to be a cure for diseases such as dysentery, or cure stomach pain by making pureed green beans and mixed with 2 eggs in water which is then consumed as much as 2 to 3 times a day.
- Who experience hair loss can also be overcome with mung bean plants by taking a glass of water, and then input a number of green beans into the water and then boiled until the water looks almost cooked green beans, but be sure not to break mung beans during boiling, and then the bean cooking water green is cooled and used to wet the scalp with a head massage, and wait until hair becomes dry, then washing your hair. Do this repeatedly until the hair is not loss anymore.
- Mung bean plant can be used also for decrease fever in infants by boiling the green beans in water and then take 1 cup the boiling water of green beans is mixed with 1 tablespoon of honey and later given to the baby.
- The immature ulcers can be treated with green beans, by mixing 50 g green beans, 50 g small red beans, black beans 50 g were mixed and boiled together, and then boiled ginger 2 segments is also different in the water, and after mature mixed boiling water of bean stew with ginger and drink water regularly. To treat the cooked ulcers by mixing honey in the water of beans and ginger, and then taken on a regular basis to recover the body suffered from ulcers.
There are many benefits of mung bean plant to body health, and therefore if you want to consume some healthy foods on a regular basis, then you can take mung beans as one of the types of foods that are feasible and beneficial for consumption, thus helping your body stay healthy and fresh.
