Can pregnant women eat mung bean porridge? There are such taboos

In the hot summer, mung bean soup is a great way to relieve the heat. Drinking it moderately can make people more energetic. Studies have found that mung beans are rich in protein, calcium, zinc and other vitamins. After being consumed by pregnant women, they have the effect of diuresis and swelling reduction. They can also eliminate fetal toxins and relieve constipation.

1. Can pregnant women drink mung bean soup?

Mung beans contain lysine, an essential amino acid for the human body. It is an important raw material for synthesizing protein and can improve the utilization rate of protein, thereby enhancing appetite and digestive function. It can promote development, improve intelligence, increase height and weight, so it is called nutritional amino acid. Therefore, it is beneficial for pregnant women to drink some mung bean soup for both themselves and their babies.

In addition, mung beans are rich in starch, fat, protein, multiple vitamins, and minerals such as zinc and calcium.

Traditional medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, non-toxic, and have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispelling heat and quenching thirst, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, improving eyesight and removing cataracts, and beautifying the skin.

Therefore, for pregnant women, drinking mung bean soup can not only reduce heat, but also eliminate fetal toxins, and it also helps solve the problem of constipation during pregnancy. From these aspects, pregnant women can drink mung bean soup.

However, the editor also wants to remind expectant mothers that the amount of mung bean soup they drink should be based on their own physical condition. After all, mung beans are a cold food, and pregnant women with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much. Do not eat mung bean foods when taking medicine, especially warm tonic medicine, so as not to reduce the efficacy of the medicine. Uncooked mung beans have a strong fishy smell and can easily cause nausea and vomiting after eating them.

2. Taboos of drinking mung bean soup

1. People with cold constitution should not drink too much mung bean soup

People with a cold constitution have symptoms such as cold and weak limbs, cold pain in the waist and legs, diarrhea and loose stools. Eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms and even cause digestive system diseases such as diarrhea (causing dehydration in severe cases), joint and muscle pain caused by stagnation of qi and blood, and chronic gastritis caused by stomach cold and weak spleen and stomach.

Drinking mung bean soup can prevent heatstroke, treat food poisoning, etc. It also has certain effects on heat swelling, heat thirst, heat dysentery, acne, etc. However, it is not suitable for people with cold constitution, weak constitution or taking medicine.

2. People with weak constitution should not drink too much mung bean soup

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 is prone to diarrhea due to indigestion.