Not one millennium in a food allowance of the person the place of honor is taken by siliculose haricot — immature beans of ordinary haricot. Still residents of Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, Ancient China and also aboriginals of South America with pleasure ate this high-calorie and vitaminized plant. People learned to cook a huge variety of dishes and medicines from haricot.
Let's consider in more detail arguments in favor of this plant and also in what harm can be done to the person from consumption of these green siliculose beans.
Structure of a product
These beans got to Europe from South America in the 15th century during opening of new lands by Columbus, but long were considered only as a plant for a decor. As this product proved a food plant only since the XVII century. Then grades which had the improved taste were removed. Subsequently such haricot was called asparagus, or French.
Our organism needs every day a large amount of mineral substances and vitamins.
Siliculose beans perfectly combine all these ingredients and are capable to fill a lack of an organism of iron, potassium, zinc, calcium, magnesium, chrome, vitamins A, With, E, groups B.
Also there are in them in a large number a cellulose, protein, carbohydrates, sugar and fats. A set of these poleznost helps us to keep for a long time good health and to be protected from an adverse effect of free radicals.
Whether you know? The chief producers of siliculose haricot on the globe is China (more than 70%), then Turkey, India and Indonesia. The main exporter — the Kenyan state. France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg — leaders in its production and consumption in the European Union.
Nutrition value and caloric content
Siliculose haricot if to compare it to shelling (grains), is not really saturated with protein, but by amount of vitamins it is the leader. Therefore its nutrition value has advantages before other types of beans: on 100 g — only 47 kcal, 0.4 g — fats, 2.8 g — proteins, 8.4 g — carbohydrates. Also green pods are valuable the fact that they have smaller amount of cellulose, than at other beans therefore their comprehensibility easier and quicker.
Caloric content of these beans is not high too — even 25 kcal in 100 g will not be gained therefore the people wishing to lose extra kilos should include this very tasty plant in the diet. Especially as regular consumption of pods of asparagus beans eliminates the feeling of fatigue accompanying the people abusing the aspiration to lose weight.
Persons interested to lose extra kilos should look narrowly at such low-calorie products: pumpkin, cowberry, spinach, celery, lemon, grapefruit, pomelo, strawberry.
Salts, boiled without addition, or stewed green pods are very rich with B9 vitamin — 11.3%, vitamin C — 18%, potassium — 11.6% (in 100 g of a ready-made product). A ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates in the same quantity of a product — 3%, 1%, 2% respectively (the percent is specified from day consumption rate).
Such ratio of substances is very useful at cardiovascular illnesses.
Important! Asparagus haricot does not absorb from the outside toxic agents therefore it is considered absolutely harmless and is recommended for baby food.
According to nutritionists, after 40-year age, haricot needs to be included in the diet as at this time the organism already loses a large amount of vitamins and mineral substances and is more subject to influence of free radicals.
Than siliculose haricot is useful
Not to consider advantage at siliculose beans: they regulate a metabolism, positively influence digestion, facilitate the course of such diseases as a SARS, rheumatoid arthritis, bronchitis, allergic skin diseases and an urolithic disease. Because of the high content of sulfur in asparagus beans perhaps fast recovery from infectious diseases of intestines, and the high content of iron stimulates eritropoez (formation of red blood cages) therefore this product will be useful at blood formation diseases.
Important! At haricot pods the low glycemic index: no more than 15% of carbohydrates are transformed to glucose. Thanks to such indicator the patients with diabetes can use asparagus beans in moderate quantities without fear for the level of glucose in blood.
Also calming action of this plant on nervous system is known: the people giving preference to haricot pods well sleep and more enjoy life.
Also constant use of green pods controls emergence of a scale.
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Their contribution to treatment of tuberculosis, cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, hypertension is invaluable, they interfere with excessive formation of harmful cholesterol. Availability of zinc as a part of this product regulates carbohydrate and lipidic exchange, successfully struggles with obesity, and at representatives of a male part of the population promotes a spermatogenesis.
Regularly taking greens of this cereal in food, men can save themselves from unpleasant prospect to ache with prostate adenoma and also can restore the lowered potency and adjust urinogenital function.
Whether properties after freezing are lost?
All useful and nutritious properties of asparagus haricot at impact on it cold remain. It is possible both to freeze it and to preserve. Only it is necessary to avoid many times to freeze and defreeze pods because of what they will lose the advantage. It is recommended to strike them to freezing in the small portions.
Features of application
It is well-known that green pods of haricot are a direct road to beauty and good health. Eating them, it is possible to keep youth for a long time and also to saturate with vitamins and necessary minerals the organism. It, in turn, will help to look good thanks to low-calorie food. And types of a culinary delicacy and dishes from this product will give the chance to eat tasty and variously.
In treatment
Green pods successfully serve as supportive application as a part of medical diets and also at treatment of a set of diseases. Asparagus haricot is taken in the form of broths, prepare from it dietary garnishes, salads and various soups.
- Medical broth at chronic pancreatitis: to fill in with a glass of water 1 tablespoon of the dried-up bean shutters, to boil on small fire of 3-5 minutes. To accept in 30 min. prior to meal three times a day. It is not necessary to prepare broth for emergency as it can lose a part of the useful properties.
- Diabetic broth.
There are two ways of preparation:
- We crush 50 g of pods and we place in a thermos, we fill in 250 g of abrupt boiled water and we draw 8 hours. To accept 100 g 3 times a day in 30 minutes prior to food.
- To boil thoroughly 150 g of the crushed siliculose raw materials 15 minutes in one liter of water. To use 150 ml to food.
It is also very useful to drink sick diabetes in a day about one liter of juice mix from haricot, carrots, salad and a Brussels sprout. Such mix will promote producing insulin.
Whether you know? A siliculose bean — an irreplaceable product for diabetics as at its juice there is an arginine which effect is similar to effect of insulin.
Especially effective property for treatment of diabetes broth of pods of haricot together with bilberry leaves has. It is necessary to accept it on 0.5 glasses before the use of food.
- Green bean juice
This juice is effective also at the following indispositions:
- Bursit (mucous bags of joints are inflamed) — twice a day 100 ml. Treatment term — two weeks.
- Mastopathy, restoration of a hormonal background at women — 400-500 ml a day from bean, carrot and beet juice, within a month.
Important! Infusions, broths and juice — only supportive applications for treatment of diseases. They can be a part of therapy which will be recommended only by the doctor.
In dietology
Green beans — irreplaceable ingredient and the assistant in a complex of medical diets and a diet for those who want to look harmoniously.
It is interesting that at regular consumption of siliculose haricot it is possible to forget about diets for weight loss because weight will return to normal itself in a short period of time.
Here several options of preparation of dietary haricot.
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- Weight loss by means of salad
To boil thoroughly 300 g of green pods. To chop a bulb, to put 100 g of green olives, greens, pepper, lemon juice and salt to add to taste. To fill 30 ml of oil from olives.
- Garnish from boiled pods
To weld 300 g of haricot in the double boiler, then to crush the dried spices of rosemary and a basil with juice of a lemon and to add there a little oil of olives. We water with this mix haricot. Such garnish well will approach both meat, and fish dishes.
- Green pods in soup
We cook the cut pods 10-15 minutes, we add the chopped sweet pepper, 3-4 tomatoes, 1 carrot and 1 onions. To cook longer minutes 7. Then to add in ready soup a glass of juice from tomatoes and the cut any greens. To weary a minutes more 3.
In cookery
Pods of green beans are on sale in supermarkets frozen or preserved. But each hostess herself also is capable to make preparations of this product. And during the summer period each of us needs to enjoy dishes from svezhesorvanny pods. Ways of their preparation are very different — cooking, frying, suppression, conservation.
The prepared bean asparagus can serve as a garnish or act as a separate dish, but it is possible to bring some variety if to combine it with other products. Green pods it is possible to fry, weld, extinguish, cook from them salad or soup.
Important! Cooking asparagus haricot dishes, even frozen, it needs to be boiled thoroughly in water, having added salt, within 15 minutes. Because of presence of a large amount of lectins there can be a disorder of digestion therefore it is not desirable to use beans in the raw. But at preparation it is impossible to digest pods, otherwise their advantage will be lost.
Recommendations how to prepare a bean asparagus:
- before preparing green beans, we delete a longitudinal vein on a pod;
- we boil greens within 10 minutes;
- the pods which lost elasticity it is necessary to soak a couple of hours in cool water;
- aluminum ware is no good to cook haricot, otherwise the product will lose the bright green color;
- to keep the saturation of color, it is necessary to salt pods at the end of cooking;
- the beans welded for the future need to be drenched with cold water.
Whether it is possible asparagus haricot
The advantage of asparagus haricot is unconditional, it not only it is possible, but also it is necessary to use. However for each age it has the value.
To children
Kids need to prepare useful and very tasty dishes from green beans.
It needs to be mixed with vegetable puree with which usually feed the child after the fifth month of life, just during this period when to it time to get acquainted with vegetables in food comes.
For this purpose fresh boiled haricot is frayed in puree. To avoid allergic reaction to the first test of this product, new to the child, it is necessary for the first time to allow to try no more than 1 tea spoons. Having convinced that everything is all right, such puree can be added gradually to habitual food of the kid, bringing gradually his quantity at one time to 60 g. The best time for intake of bean puree is a lunch. Are recommended to supplement with nutritionists dishes with siliculose haricot fennel. Such puree is given to the child not more often than three times in several days. For children of more advanced age haricot is cooked in a habitual look, as well as for adults.
It is important! To avoid the increased gas generation, it is undesirable at children till 1 year to combine in a diet green beans with meat.
To the feeding mothers
Mother who raises the baby breast milk has to eat asparagus beans. They have all useful elements, and from it there will be an advantage to both young mother, and her baby. Green bean do not cause in kids of excessive gas exchange and normalize defecation.
Young mother loses many forces, and eating the dishes containing green pods of haricot she will be able to be restored and will avoid such disease as anemia. Also there will be no excessive load of kidneys, digestion process will be facilitated.
Such woman needs to use this plant several times within a week as a separate dish the entire period while she nurses.
To pregnant women
Green pods of beans are very useful to pregnant women, because of what in them is all necessary for usefulness for her and also the kid growing in it.
The reasons why to pregnant women it is vital to consume asparagus haricot:
- because of the fact that in it the huge amount of protein, is partially replaced with it meat;
- bean cellulose gives the chance to easily empty intestines;
- effective prevention of iron deficiency anemia;
- the nicotinic acid which is a part normalizes arterial blood pressure, reduces stress, adjusts a metabolism;
- prevents risk of manifestation of a hyperpegmentation on skin.
Necessary councils at consumption of haricot by pregnant women:
- haricot has to be boiled thoroughly well in order to avoid risk of indigestion;
- before cooking the pods need to be wetted for some time in cool water, it is necessary for prevention of a meteorizm;
- it is not desirable to make bean greens with meat, and to prepare by a separate dish.
Contraindications and harm
Considering what huge benefit is brought to the person by asparagus haricot, can seem that it can have no contraindications. But these green pods can do also impressive harm to our organism. It is necessary to be most of all careful the patient with gastritis with the increased acidity of a stomach, with pancreatitis in the aggravated stage, also at cholecystitis, stomach ulcer of a stomach, at acute inflammations in intestines and in the presence of colitis.
Siliculose haricot, as well as any other, influences the increased gas exchange, therefore, you should not be fond of such food of the elderly and also suffering chronic locks, nephrite of kidneys and gout. It is possible to avoid excessive gas generation if to boil haricot two times, at the same time merging the first water.
Siliculose haricot is a well of vitamins and minerals which are necessary for us for healthy and qualitative life. Each person of any age with moderate and good health needs to make the daily diet, periodically entering into it this proteinaceous product. Regularly eating these bright green cereals, we will protect the organism from harmful effects of the environment because for green beans it is characteristic not to absorb in itself hazardous substances from the outside as other vegetable cultures have it.