How to distinguish vegetable soybean, soybean, black bean
Generally, people's impression of soy milk and tofu is that soybean is the main original product. For soybeans, they are divided into vegetable soybean, soybean, and black beans, but they can't tell the difference. Most of the vegetable soybean on the market are green pods, and most of them will be boiled. , mix with various spices and serve after cooling, (cold vegetable soybean)
vegetable soybean is the younger brother of soybeans, referring to immature soybeans, which are fresh pods harvested when soybeans grow to eighth maturity in the pods.
Soybeans are mature soybeans. The difference is that the color of the seed coat is different, and the pods change from green to yellow. The soybeans in the pods turn dry. When the edamame matures, it will dehydrate, become smaller, and harden into soybeans and black beans.
Soybean has high nutritional value and protein content of about 40%
Soybeans are known as the "King of Beans", and they are also praised as "Tanaka's Meat", because the protein content of soybeans is about 40%, and it is a complete essential amino acid. Eight of the amino acids needed by the human body must be obtained from the diet, which are called essential amino acids. Plant-based proteins are mostly incomplete proteins, while soybean protein is a rare complete protein containing 8 amino acids. Vegetarians often replace meat with soy products as a source of protein.