Here’s a worthwhile home project to do during the lockdown regime. Bean sprout is touted as a superfood that’s reputed to be more nutritious than the original bean. Many types of beans can be germinated as bean sprouts but here we are focussed on the green mung beans.
According to Healthline (https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/mung-beans#section1), one cup (7 ounces or 202 grams) of boiled mung beans have the following benefits:
- Calories: 212
- Fat: 0.8 grams
- Protein: 14.2 grams
- Carbs: 38.7 grams
- Fiber: 15.4 grams
- Folate (B9): 80% of the Reference Daily Intake (RDI)
- Manganese: 30% of the RDI
- Magnesium: 24% of the RDI
- Vitamin B1: 22% of the RDI
- Phosphorus: 20% of the RDI
- Iron: 16% of the RDI
- Copper: 16% of the RDI
- Potassium: 15% of the RDI
- Zinc: 11% of the RDI
- Vitamins B2, B3, B5, B6 and selenium
With those properties, bean sprouts should be good for our health. In fact, HealthBenefitsTimes (https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/bean-sprouts/) suggest that bean sprouts provide the following health benefits.
- Preventing cancer
- Preventing heart attack and stroke
- Preventing Osteoporosis
- Generating the immune system
- Good for Digestion
- Increasing fertility
- Good for the skin
- Lose weight
- Prevent menstrual disorders and menopause
- Good for Women
- Younger
- Remove Impurities
- Anemia
- Constipation
- Hair and nail fragility
- Liver health
- Stress and tiredness
- Lower risk of some birth defects
We invite first-person testimonials to confirm or debunk the above claims.
With all the possible health benefits, here’s how to simply grow fat juicy mung bean sprouts at home.
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