Generally speaking, broad bean skins are edible, but it still depends on personal preference. Some people like to eat it and some don’t.
The nutritional value of broad bean skins is mainly to promote our digestive system and help the stomach solve the problem of food accumulation. If broad bean skin is decoctioned and eaten, it can help treat diuretic problems. An appropriate amount of broad bean skin decoction can be taken three times a day to facilitate urination. However, in daily life, people with favismosis are advised not to eat broadbean skins, and children should also be prohibited from eating them, because severe favismosis can be life-threatening. In daily life, it is recommended that parents let their children eat some fresh fruits and vegetables, and participate in some appropriate physical exercises.
The nutritional value of broad beans: 1. They are rich in protein. For people with sarcopenia who have reduced muscle strength and muscle content, they can eat broad beans appropriately and improve their performance by supplementing high-quality protein. Muscle strength and relief of sarcopenia. 2. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, broad beans are sweet and mild in nature and taste, and enter the spleen and stomach meridians. People with indigestion, loss of appetite, abdominal pain and bloating, and easy food accumulation should eat broad beans appropriately. By nourishing the spleen and stomach meridians, It has the effect of strengthening the spleen, appetizing, and improving digestion.
Taboos about eating cowpea
Everyone can eat it.
1. It is suitable for the elderly, students during examinations, intellectual staff, and those with high cholesterol and constipation.
2. People with middle-jiao deficiency and coldness are not suitable to take it. People who have allergic reactions to broad beans must not eat it.
3. People with hereditary red blood cell deficiency, bleeding hemorrhoids, indigestion, chronic colitis, uremia, etc. should eat with caution.
Note that children suffering from favismosis must not eat cowpeas. Children under 10 years old should be careful when eating fresh cowpeas. Because after some children eat cowpeas, their skin all over their body will turn yellow, causing jaundice and hemoglobinuria (the color of their urine becomes aggravated), so they are named "cowpea yellow". The reason is that the child's blood cells lack a substance called "glucose-6-ammonium sulfate dehydrogenase". When such children eat cowpeas, they are very likely to develop hemolysis and jaundice, leading to severe anemia.