Can I eat mung beans during confinement?

It is best for women to eat less mung beans during the confinement period, because mung beans are cold food. If eaten improperly, it will have a great impact on health. When a woman's physical condition is relatively poor after childbirth, she should try to eat some foods that help warm and nourish the body. If she has a poor diet, her physical condition may deteriorate. Of course, if you are in confinement in the summer when the weather is hot, you can drink a small amount of mung bean soup, which can also play a certain health-care role.

1. Nutritional value of mung beans

The protein content of mung beans is relatively high, about 10%-20%, which is 2-3 times higher than that of flour and millet; the amino acid content is also relatively high, about 2-5 times that of ordinary food. In addition, mung beans are also rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin B and rich minerals.

Mung beans have many other benefits. First, mung beans can clear away heat and dampness, and are a common summer refreshing drink in families; secondly, mung beans have a detoxifying effect, can prevent and treat acidosis, and have a certain therapeutic effect on food poisoning; thirdly, mung beans also have anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects, and can enhance the phagocytic function of white blood cells in the human body.

Mung beans have high nutritional value and can be said to be full of treasures. For example, mung bean powder can treat sores, swelling and burns, mung bean skin can improve eyesight, and mung bean sprouts can relieve alcohol consumption. Mung beans are cold in nature, so people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much. People with low blood pressure and women during menstrual period should not eat them. (Can I drink soy milk during confinement? Is it good to drink soy milk after a caesarean section?)

2. Can I eat mung beans during the confinement period?

It is recommended to eat less. Postpartum women have more lochia and are weak, so they should eat some warming foods. Mung beans are cool, especially the mung bean soup that is often eaten in summer, which is usually eaten cold, so they should be eaten less. If you want to drink mung bean soup, it is best to eat it hot.

3. People who are not suitable for eating mung bean soup

1. People with cold constitution. For example, people with symptoms such as cold limbs, abdominal distension, diarrhea and loose stools should not drink too much mung bean soup. Eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms and cause other diseases.

2. The elderly, children and people with weak constitutions. Because the protein content in mung beans is higher than that in chicken, large molecular proteins need to be converted into small molecular peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes before they can be absorbed by the human body. This type of people has poor gastrointestinal digestion function and it is difficult for them to digest mung bean protein in a short period of time, which can easily lead to diarrhea due to indigestion.

3. People who are taking various medications. The detoxifying ingredients in mung beans will decompose the efficacy of the medicine and affect the treatment.

4. People with yin deficiency should not eat mung beans. The cold nature of mung beans can easily lead to excessive internal heat and cause erosions at the corners of the mouth, swollen and painful gums, etc.