Mung bean seed Vigna radiata

LATIN NAME: Vigna radiata

COMMON NAME: Mung Bean

The mung bean is the small, olive-green legume of the warm fields, and the old sprouting jar has kept it busy for centuries. The upright, bushy, annual plant carries the trifoliate leaves and the small, yellow, pea-like flowers through the summer, to be followed by the slender, hairy pods of the small, green, shiny beans. The beans have a very long record as the staple of the warm kitchens and the sprouting jar, and the plant is a fine, generous presence of the warm garden and the field. It is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The mung bean is a steady, fruitful subject of the plant science, and the small, green beans keep showing up in the work on the legume group. The breeding of the mung beans for the yield and the sprouting quality has been looked at closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the food legumes, the sprouting crops and the members of the pea family. The trifoliate leaves and the upright, bushy habit have also made it a fine field plant, and the mung bean is a regular subject of the work on the small, fast legumes of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The mung bean is a fine, generous legume of the warm field and the kitchen jar. The small, green beans have a very long record as the staple of the warm kitchens, cooked into the soups and the porridges, and the sprouting jar turns the same beans into the fine, crisp, fresh bean sprouts of the stir-fry, ready in a few days. The plant feeds the soil with the nitrogen and grows fast, making it one of the fine choices for the warm garden, the cover crop and the field. It has been written up in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the green beans and the fast, easy ways, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.

The mung bean is one of the fast legumes of the warm field, and the sprouting jar turns the small, green beans into the crisp bean sprouts in a few days. The plant feeds the soil with the nitrogen.

To grow the mung bean from seed, sow the small, olive seeds a little under the surface of a pot of moist, free-draining soil, keep the pot in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the frosts. The seedlings appear within a week and grow on fast. With the sun, the warmth and the well-drained ground, the green pods will come through the warm season.

Mung Bean Sprouts are rich in protein as well as vitamin A, the vitamin B complex, vitamin C and vitamin E, as well as various minerals and enzymes. Said often to protect against cancer, fatigue and in building the immune systme. Highly recommended! Calories in Beansprouts, Alfalfa Sprouts: 1 Cup = 10 calories. One pound of Mung Bean Seed makes about 10 pounds of sprouts. Mung bean sprouts have a crisp, crunchy texture and a flavor similar to fresh-picked garden peas.