Is the edamame bean sounding strange in your ears?
If you are vegetarians, must have been very familiar with soy beans. If you are
guessing, whether the edamame beans is the same as the soy beans, you are not
entirely wrong. In terms of health, the benefits of edamame beans are not
playful. Even the edamame beans are very influential for your cardiovascular
health.
What is edamame?
If you've ever eaten at a Japanese restaurant,
you've probably found a dish of green beans for guests. These green colored beans
are edamame beans.
Edamame is different from peas, because of edamame
stuffing such as soy beans, but green in color. In Indonesia, this beans is
often referred to as soy beans from Japan, although in fact edamame originated
from China. Edamame may look like regular beans, but the protein content in it
is much more.
You can get the edamame beans in the supermarket,
in frozen form, either still in the skin or not. For one small bowl of edamame,
there are 16.86 grams of protein. This is what makes edamame replacing eggs and
meat, in terms of its protein intake.
In addition, edamame is the only vegetable in the
world that has 9 types of essential amino acids. In one serving of edamame also
contains 10% daily intake of iron and vitamin C, 8% daily intake of vitamin A,
and 8.1 grams of fiber (more than 4 pieces of wheat bread). One portion of
edamame contains only 189 calories. Edamame beans taste sweet with delicate
textures.
Benefits of edamame beans for health
Apparently there are many benefits of edamame beans
especially for your health. Feel free to consume them to improve your
nutritional needs.
- Increasing Body Endurance
Edamame beans contain nutritional content, vitamins and high antioxidants that are beneficial to increase your endurance. If you diligently consume edamame beans, you can avoid the effects of severe weather lately that can affect your immune system. - Preventing hypertension and heart disease>
This beans is also beneficial to prevent you from heart disease to high blood pressure. The antioxidant content of these beans actively can destroy the fat that accumulates in the body that triggers heart disease and high blood. This bean also efficacious as an anti-inflammatory substance so that the taste of sore, pain, and fatigue from inflammation can be cured quickly when you consume these beans. - Reducing the risk of cancer
The isoflavin content of edamame beans also efficacious to reduce the risk of prostate cancer and breast cancer. Isoflavin is a compound that also plays a role in enhancing the human immune system as a deterrent to cancer cells. - Accelerating the blood clotting process
High Vitamin K content is very functional to accelerate the process of blood clotting. It is very good for those of you who risk falling often and blisters on the skin to relieve it quickly. Edamame beans also serve to prevent osteoporosis and Alzheimer's disease. - Good for the digestive system
Edamame beans contain high fiber content so that it can improve the performance of the digestive system in humans. It is very good for those of you who are doing a diet program. Not only that, the complex carbohydrate content of this nut provides more benefits to give a sense of satiety for longer, so you can suppress the desire to eat in large portions.