What are the benefits of eating edamame? What can edamame be fried with?

Edamame, also known as vegetable soybean, is a kind of soybean that is eaten fresh and tender in pods. It is also called immature and green edible soybean (also known as soybean). Edamame is an annual crop with hard stems and fine hairs. Its pods are flat and have fine hairs, so it is called edamame. It is a must-order delicacy for many friends when eating barbecue! Do you like it? In addition, we can learn more about the benefits of eating edamame.

Contents of this article

1. What are the benefits of eating edamame?

2. What can edamame be fried with?

3. How to store fresh edamame

What are the benefits of eating edamame?

1. Edamame is rich in dietary fiber, which can improve constipation and lower blood pressure and cholesterol.

2. Edamame contains compounds that can remove fat from blood vessel walls, thereby lowering blood lipids and blood cholesterol.

3. The lecithin in edamame is one of the indispensable nutrients for brain development and can improve the brain's memory and intelligence level.

4. The potassium content in edamame is very high. Eating it in summer can help make up for the loss of potassium caused by excessive sweating, thereby alleviating fatigue and loss of appetite caused by potassium loss.

5. Edamame is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It enters the spleen and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and relieving fullness, moistening dryness and eliminating water, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and invigorating qi. It is mainly used to treat malnutrition, diarrhea, abdominal distension and emaciation, pregnancy poisoning, sores, carbuncles, swelling and toxins, and traumatic bleeding.

6. The fat content in edamame is higher than that in other types of vegetables, but most of it is unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which are essential to the human body. They can improve fat metabolism and reduce triglyceride and cholesterol levels in the human body.

What can be fried with edamame?

Edamame, also known as vegetable soybean, is a type of soybean crop that is eaten fresh and has tender pods. It is an immature, green edible soybean (also known as soybean). Edamame is an annual crop with a hard stem and fine hairs. Its pods are flat and have fine hairs, so it is called edamame. There are usually two to three beans in a pod. When fresh, the pods are tender green.

Soybeans are native to my country and have a 5,000-year history of cultivation. They are now widely grown throughout the country, and are produced in Northeast China, North China, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. They are mostly cultivated in the Yangtze River Basin and Southwest China, and the Northeast soybeans have the best quality.

Soybean is a leguminous plant whose seeds are rich in protein. Generally speaking, it refers to its seeds. Soybean is oval or spherical. The seed coat color is yellow, light green, or black. They are called yellow beans, green beans (different from green bean kernels, i.e. peas), and black beans. Yellow beans are the most common.

Edamame and fish: Edamame and fish together will destroy all the vitamin B, which is not conducive to the nutritional value of both.

Edamame and fern: Eating edamame and fern together will affect the absorption of nutrients.

Edamame and lamb liver: Lamb liver and beef liver are rich in copper and iron; edamame is rich in vitamin C. Eating the two together will react, converting the vitamin C in edamame into other substances, destroying the body's absorption of vitamin C.

How to store fresh edamame

First, peel the fresh edamame into beans, then boil a pot of salt water. After the water boils, pour in the edamame and blanch it for about 30 seconds. Immediately remove from the water and put it in the prepared cold water. If the amount of cold water is not too much and it cannot be cooled quickly, you can constantly change the water or flush in cold water to allow the edamame to cool down as soon as possible.

After the edamame is completely cooled, remove it and drain the water, dry the raw water on the surface, put it into a fresh-keeping bag, and put enough for one meal in each bag. Then tie the bag tightly and put the fresh-keeping bag into the freezer of the refrigerator for storage. It can be frozen and taken out to thaw when eating.

This method can be used to store the soybeans for up to a year. However, some netizens reported that this method of storage will cause the thawed soybeans to have an odor. This is actually caused by a long power outage in the refrigerator during the storage process, causing the soybeans to thaw.

Wash the peeled edamame with clean water and drain. Heat the oil in a wok, add the edamame and stir-fry for a while, then remove from the wok and let it cool.

Put the cooled edamame into a fresh-keeping bag, and put enough in each bag for one meal. Then tie the bag tightly and put the bag into the freezer of the refrigerator for storage. Store it in the freezer and take it out to thaw when you want to eat it.

This method can preserve the edamame for up to a year. The preserved edamame is not prone to change in taste or color, but it will still be green and tender when used for cooking. This is a better preservation method.

Some netizens freeze the peeled edamame directly for storage. In fact, this is a bad practice. It not only causes nutritional loss but also makes the taste bad.

1) Whether blanching or frying, the edamame must be "killed" to block its growth possibility, so as to retain the nutrients of the edamame as much as possible.

2) The processed edamame cannot contain raw water and must be packaged in bags and kept airtight to isolate it from air before it can be stored in the freezer.

3) Take as much frozen edamame as you want to eat. Avoid thawing and freezing the edamame repeatedly, as this will destroy its nutrition and taste.